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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.
Someone sites under a pink blossom tree on a bench with their back to the camera

Vacation loans and completion of studies information

Information on extended access applications and vacation loans for the Summer 2024 break.
Pink Sky by Amrik Varkalis

Sheffield University Fine Art Society - MA student project

MA History student Leanne Massey has worked with the University Archives and Heritage Collection to research the Sheffield University Fine Art Society (SUFAS).

The signage used to promote the Exhibition of Creative Education at the IC

Exhibition Space Launched in the Information Commons

The Exhibition of Creative Education took place in the Information Commons as we officially launched our Exhibition Space.
Photographic postcard of the Alexime Troupe in costume. . French flying trapeze performers, led by Alphonse Bernier who was trained by Cesari. With Alfred Clarke's circus, 1914, in Colombo, consisting of Mr and Mrs Alexime with their assistant Miss Marthe Hamel. Mrs Victoria Alexime also gave an equestrian performance. Noted at the Great Continental Circus, Crystal Palace, London, 1924-25, when the lady executed a triple somersault in her descent. At T.E. Read's Gt. Yarmouth Hippodrome, in 1926. Back

National Fairground and Circus Archive awarded £460,000 for digitisation and engagement activities

Read more about the exciting plans for the NFCA and how this funding will help us to open up the archives
Leters and photographs from the Robert Innes archive

The Robert Innes Smith Archive

...and the unexpected detective work of an Archive Assistant