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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.
A selection of the latest Sheffield Pressbooks titles

New to the Sheffield Pressbooks Network: Workarounds: the benefits and the risks

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new open book on the Sheffield Pressbooks Network.
Peter Blundell Jones

The Peter Blundell Jones Archive

In 2021 the University of Sheffield Library acquired the archive of architect, teacher and writer, Peter Blundell Jones, kindly donated by his widow Christine Poulson.

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The Joyful Learning Project

Towards a pedagogy of joy: Initial reflections on the Joyful Learning Project

The Front cover of Dr Alex Best's book Introducing Mathematical Biology

New to the Sheffield Pressbooks Network: Introducing Mathematical Biology by Dr Alex Best

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new open textbook on the Sheffield Pressbooks Network.
Cover of The War Illustrated magazine Vol 6 Number 133

Special Collections, Heritage and Archives, and the Battleship Texas Foundation

A collaborative online exhibition created by Battleship Texas Foundation, Jonathan Rayner in the School of English and the University's Special Collections, Heritage and Archives