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-...

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

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⚓️ 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 🤡

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

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!

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/

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:

Open Research Prize 2025

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

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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

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 💐