The City Archives has been home to two university students over the last few months. Sabrina Webster and Chantelle Francis are studying for an MA in Public Humanities at the University of Sheffield. They chose to base themselves in the Archives and Local Studies Library in a quest to find out more about the city’s recent Cold War history. They are now ready to share their research in a special exhibition at the Central Library next week...
We hope you'll
come along to our exhibition on Saturday
21 May, 12.30-3pm in the Carpenter Room (first floor), Sheffield Central Library. Our exhibition
offers the opportunity for visitors to learn more about the South Yorkshire
County Council and anti-nuclear activism in Sheffield during the Cold War. Visitors
will have the opportunity to explore selected archival material from various
archives across the city, including Sheffield City Archives, Sheffield Local Studies Library
and Sheffield Reference and Information Library.
The
exhibition will shed light on a variety of topics, from the workings of
both South Yorkshire County and Sheffield City Council, as well as efforts
made by Sheffield CND and other local activist groups in the city during the
Cold War. As such, there will be the opportunity to hear different stories from
those at the centre of this unique period of Sheffield’s history. We have been
lucky enough to have interviewed John Cornwell (former Deputy Leader of SYYC),
Roger Barton (former Chair of Sheffield City Council’s Nuclear Free Zones
Committee), Maggie Tyson (former member of the activist group Library Workers Against the Bomb), and
Stewart Kemp (former Nuclear Free Zones Officer for Sheffield City Council). All
of these interviews were fascinating, and we are looking forward to displaying
excerpts from the interviews we have conducted with them over the past few
months.
There
will also be the opportunity for visitors to mingle, discuss the exhibition’s
content and enjoy the complimentary refreshments available in the adjoining
Jackson Room.
For more information, check
out the event’s facebook page, at: https://www.facebook.com/events/203531200034270/
Or follow us on twitter, at:
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Sabrina Webster & Chantelle Francis
Public Humanities MA Students
University of Sheffield
