Knowledge exchange

Innovation in the context of our work in the faculty is understood to involve active engagement with a range of different stakeholders 'beyond the Ivory Tower'.

Individually and collectively we participate in a wide range of knowledge exchange activities, communicating the results of our research to audiences beyond the university sector, sharing our expertise with schools and the local community, and collaborating with museums, theatres, libraries, cinemas and local businesses.

Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

Recent examples of activity

Displaying Drink 1650-1850

This collaboration with Museums Sheffield lead to an exhibition in the Metalwork Gallery at the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield in 2008.

Displaying Drink exhibition

The Old Bailey Online project

This has made available to the public the proceedings of the Old Bailey criminal court between 1674 and 1913. The website has received some 15 million hits since it was launched in 2003, and has become an invaluable resource for family and local historians.

The Old Bailey website

The Virtual Re-presentation project

This project used computing techniques to recreate historical locations which no longer exist, for example Benjamin Huntsman's Attercliffe Works (the place where crucible steelmaking was discovered in Sheffield).

Benjamin Huntsman's Attercliffe Works

Conisborough Manorial Court records

The transcription and digitisation of selected Conisborough Manorial Court records, working in partnership with Conisborough Historical Society and Doncaster Borough Council.

Showroom cinema talks

Talks at the Showroom cinema, Sheffield, on films of historical interest.

Public lectures

Public lectures both within Britain and around the world, including at the National Army Museum in London, the Université Catholique de Lille, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in New York.

Media work

Media work, including appearances on BBC Radio 4, UK History, Sky 1, articles for the The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, History Today, BBC History Magazine, Der Tagesspiegel, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Local schools

Talks to students at local schools, and to a seminar for state school teachers about the teaching of history.