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Red background with black and white figure of a variety of women circus performers, for example on an aerial rope and horse. Text reads: Women in Circus Symposium, Call for papers, Monday 23 March, University of Sheffield

Present at the Women in Circus Symposium

Call for papers now open! Submit your proposal for the one-day research event at the University of Sheffield.
Korean Women's Literature Exhibition
Korean Women's Literature Exhibition

Her Pages, her Power: Celebrating Contemporary Women’s Writing from South Korea

The initial idea for this new exhibition project came about as early as 2024, the year that Han Kang won the long-awaited Nobel Prize for literature for South Korea.
Leters and photographs from the Robert Innes Smith archive

History and Archives in Practice 2026 – Registration now live!

You can now register to attend History and Archives in Practice 2026, hosted at Firth Court on 16 April 2026.
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Arthur Scargill stood with a display of items from the archive at Western Bank Library

The Arthur Scargill Archive

Following a two year cataloguing project the Library is pleased to announced that the Arthur Scargill Archive is now open to all researchers.
Libraries: Essential Services in a Pandemic

Libraries: Essential Services in a Pandemic
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Who is that clown? Researching Victorian circus photographs

In October 2017 the National Fairground and Circus Archive was fortunate in being able to acquire an important collection of photographs and documents relating to Sanger’s Circus.
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The Conservation of the Orton and Spooner Company’s Fairground Ride Designs
Open Research in the Time of COVID-19

Open Research in the Time of COVID-19
Virtually There: Summer 2020 for our Postgraduate Students

Virtually There: Summer 2020 for our Postgraduate Students