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Screening the Fleet: A Conversation about 50 years of the Navy on Screen Exploring 50 years of the Royal Navy on TV and the lens this turns on media, history, and national identity

Prof Rayner shares his research in a talk and discussion with Chris Terrill—filmmaker & broadcaster—followed by an audience Q&A.

📅 Thu 18 Sept,🥂 Drinks 17:15, 🎤 Talk 17:30. 📍Lecture Theatre 02, The Diamond, Sheffield. 🎟️ Free – registration required 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...

⚓️ Event Alert: Screening the Fleet – 50 Years of the Navy on Screen
How has the Royal Navy been portrayed on screen over the past 50 years? What can these depictions reveal about culture, politics, and national identity? Join us for an evening of discussion with Prof Jonathan Rayner & Chris Terrill.

Clowns are performers of comedy and arts, usually wearing bright costumes and make up. Clowns commonly perform in circuses meaning they feature a lot in our National Fairground and Circus Archive held here @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social

Some people consider clowns humorous right?... #EYAHumour 🤡

You can find out more about the exhibition on our event page (and you can follow our wonderful Special Collections, Heritage and Archives team on BlueSky, too @uoscollections.bsky.social) 👇

sheffield.ac.uk/library/spec...

a close-up of a street with lampposts from the 1900 scale model.

a close-up of the view across the 1900 scale model.

Our latest exhibition, running until December 2025, celebrate the life and work of Peter Blundell-Jones, and offers a rare opportunity for you to view the scale model created by Peter Blundell-Jones and his students of a section of Sheffield as it was in 1900.

@uoscollections.bsky.social

Find out more and register by 31st July here 🔗https://forms.gle/k8m7W7majfVfEqt5A

a poster advertising the Read Review Reward competition for "Love in the Big City" by Sang Young Park. The poster advertised the prizes of £500 for first place, £400 for second place, and £300 for 3rd place for a book review of 2,000 - 2,500 words. Registration by 31 July 2025 to submit by 31st August 2025.

Have you heard? We are running our FIRST EVER Korean Book Review contest! 📚

“Love in the Big City” is a fantastic Korean novel by Sang Young Park, who will be in attendance at the award ceremony online for this competition!

Two students sit outside on deckchairs with a picnic blanket at their feet

Three students sit outside, two on deckchairs and one on a picnic blanket, with cups of coffee

Now the sun is out, why not take a study break outside? ☀️

If you are at the Information Commons, just ask a member of staff between 9am-5pm in the week if you can use a deckchair or a picnic blanket and make the most of the sun on campus!

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new Open Educational Resource on Sheffield Pressbooks. This book by Dr Rebecca Denniss and Dr Stanislava Naneva enables you to learn the basics of JASP, a free and open-source program for statistical analysis.
sheffield.pressbooks.pub/help4jasp/

Hi, and welcome to Bluesky! 👋

Open Research Prize 2025 Applications are now open for the University of Sheffield’s Open Research Prize 2025

A quick reminder for TUoS staff and PGRs:

🔊Applications are now open for the TUoS Open Research Prize 2025. The prize is open to all TUoS staff & PGRs.

🎉Apply by 28th May for a chance of winning one of two individual prizes of £500 & a team prize of £1000, plus runner up prizes.

Details here:

Exploring images of women in the archives This session gives the opportunity to explore the wide range of ways in which women have been pictured in the University’s own institutional Archive, the Special Collections, and t...

If you are a current student here at the University of Sheffield, you can book your place here: sheffield.libcal.com/calendar/lib...

If you are not in Sheffield, you can still explore our archives online, here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/spec...

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The session will allow participants to investigate how women have been described in the catalogue, the ways in which contextual information may assist in revealing hidden stories in the archives, and the impact that language originally used to describe historic items may have today 📷 [2/3]

As part of our Lib Fest programme for Women's History Month, @uoscollections.bsky.social are running a session on liberating our archives using original photographs from the nineteenth century to the present-day to consider what you can tell just from an image (and what you can’t) 👇🧵 [1/3]

Mary Anne Rawson, was a philanthropist and abolitionist, born in Sheffield in 1801. She was a founding member of the Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society. This scrapbook shows how she campaigned for justice for enslaved individuals around the world #EYAJustice #womenshistorymonth

Thank you so much! ✨

Yellow and purple crocuses blooming outside the Information Commons library

Hello! 👋

We’re the University of Sheffield Library, and we’re excited to connect and talk to you all on here!

Please enjoy this picture of the spring flowers outside of the Information Commons 💐