Evaluation of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s First World War Centenary activities
Client: Heritage Lottery Fund | Staff: Will Eadson, Chris Days, Nadia Bashir, Elizabeth Sanderson, Nicola Verdon, Alison Twells (Humanities Research Centre, SHU) and Ellen Bennett.
Heritage research at Sheffield Hallam University
Heritage research at Sheffield Hallam is located mainly in the Humanities Research Centre, which houses English and history, and in the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute.
Unearthing forgotten fiction for new readers
The Readerships and Literary Cultures 1900-1950 Special Collection is a collection of 1000 early editions of popular fiction that provides a scholarly and community forum for research and personal development
Teaching new perspectives on twentieth century German history at GCSE and A-Level
Investigating overlooked aspects of pre-1945 Germany leads to new approaches to History teaching
The historic role of women in the countryside
Dr Verdon highlights the importance of women as farmers and labourers in the 19th and 20th century
Remembering early women activists
Historical research underpins new plans to commemorate nineteenth-century feminists
From One Extreme to Another: Theatre in Education
Play enables discussion of issues that can lead to extremism by touring British schools
Questioning the limits of science and science fiction
Novelist explores gender politics in science as well as the teenage voice in literature to devise her award-winning recent novel