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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.
Graduation by Diana Springall - Western Bank Library 1988

Heritage textile to be installed back into Western Bank Library

The Graduation textile heritage artwork was reinstalled in Western Bank Library Thursday 6th April 2023.

Academic machine illustration

‘Fighting the academic machine’: active reading in the Information Commons

An exhibition in the Information Commons focuses on students’ experience of academic reading, identified through Dr Will Mason’s research with second year students.
Madeleine Blaess Diaries

Special Collections and Archives: Women's History Month

To celebrate Women’s History Month here in the University of Sheffield Special Collections and Archives, we have highlighted a few stories of different women included across the collections.
An iron sits disassembled on a work bench with electronics and a laptop.

Showcasing student work at the Information Commons - Materials Selection and Fracture Mechanics

An exhibition on Level 1 in the Information Commons highlighted artefacts and posters from the Materials Selection and Fracture Mechanics module.
Western Bank

Service update: limited access to Catalogue Hall at Western Bank Library