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Reconstructing Ruskin's St George's Museum
The University of Sheffield has recently completed a unique project to create a ‘virtual museum’ to allow the public to view the countless paintings, drawings, books, manuscripts and artefacts collected by John Ruskin, eminent art critic, author and social thinker of the Victorian era.
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Sheffield-based performance artist brings entertainment past to life
As part of a wide-ranging Sheffield-based project to document the history of fairs and popular entertainment, a Creative and Performing Arts Fellow at the University of Sheffield Library is working on a unique project to build a body of work as a modern-day travelling showwoman.
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Digital edition of 450 year-old text sheds new light on the English Reformation
Researchers in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield have digitised one of the most important literary texts of the sixteenth century, which will shed important new light on the English Reformation.
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Online database brings mid-Tudor writing and poetry to life
Dr Cathy Shrank of the University of Sheffield's School of English carried out an innovative project to create an online catalogue of mid-sixteenth-century literary texts.
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Nature vs nurture – which is the winner?
The University of Sheffield is at the forefront of worldwide research into the age-old debate on whether nature or nurture plays the greater role in shaping our minds.
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Prudes and Players – the 'Golden era' of Post-war British Theatre
In collaboration with the University of Sheffield, the British Library has mounted a new exhibition entitled 'The Golden Generation: British Theatre 1945 – 1968' .
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Digitising Manuscripts – French historiography, knowledge transfer and the Hundred Years’ War
Six original manuscripts of the Chronicles penned by influential medieval French historian and writer Jehan (John) Froissart have been digitised and will soon be available to a wider public thanks to a range of projects led by Professor Peter Ainsworth from the University of Sheffield's Department of French.
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Discovering the only Ice Age cave art in Britain
Britain's only known Ice Age cave art has been discovered in the Creswell Crags area by Dr Paul Pettitt from the University of Sheffield's Department of Archaeology.
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Archaeologists unravel the history of Sheffield's unique Butcher Works
Archaeologists from the University of Sheffield have spent the last two years surveying, investigating and unravelling the complex history of one of the most important surviving cutlery and grinding workshops in Sheffield, and have made some unique finds along the way.
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Read all about it – the changing language of the Daily Mirror
A fascinating research project on 'The Language of the Daily Mirror' was carried out by Dr Martin Conboy and Dr Adrian Bingham of the University of Sheffield.
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