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This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
The history of Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire, England, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area now known as Sheffield had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age , but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
Sheffield Improvement Act 1818; Sheffield Manor Lodge; Sheffield Outrages; Sheffield Rally; Sheffield tree felling protests; History of Sheffield United F.C. History of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Sheffield Wool Shear Workers Union; Shirecliffe; George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury; Society for Constitutional Information; St Matthew's Church ...
Sheffield Archives (located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) collects, preserves and lists records (or archives) relating to Sheffield and South Yorkshire and makes them available for reference and research. Sheffield Archives is a joint service with Sheffield Local Studies Library.
Upperthorpe was the location of the first reservoir to supply water to Sheffield. In 1712 John Goodwin and Robert Littlewood were appointed by the town trustees and the Duke of Norfolk to pipe water from springs at the White House, Upperthorpe to Townhead in the centre of Sheffield. In 1737 they were joined by Joshua Matthewman and the first of ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city ... Archaeological Society established. ... the City of Norwich .., Sheffield: William White, 1836. History, ...
Gales established a fortnightly journal, the Sheffield Patriot, which explored political issues in more depth than the Register. He also established contact with the London Corresponding Society , began sitting on the Sheffield society's committee, and published the first cheap edition of Paine's Rights of Man .
He was born at Sheffield in Flavell's Yard, Fargate, on 6 December 1816.He was the second son of Samuel Brown, a slater of that town. He was educated at a local school held in a garret, and was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to Earl, Horton, & Co., factors, of Orchard Place, In 1831, his employers engaged in the manufacture of files and table cutlery, taking an establishment in Rockingham ...