JUHS YouTube channel

We aim to record talks given by invited speakers to our bi-monthly meetings and with their permission publish them via this YouTube channel.

Video: The Dirty, the Idle, the Drunken and the Disorderly

Chris Corker, Chair of Portland Works Board of Directors, delivers a presentation ‘The Dirty, the Idle, the Drunken and the Disorderly’: People, Public Health, Politics and Philanthropy in 19th Century Sheffield. This presentation was part of the Joined Up Heritage...

Video: Sheffield’s 18th Century Railway

In the 1770s the Duke of Norfolk had a waggonway laid from his Manor collieries into town. This became one of the first cast-iron railways and may well have contained some of the earliest railway infrastructure in the world. This presentation given at our meeting on...

Video: An update on the redevelopment of Leah’s Yard

Tom Wolfenden, CEO of Sheffield Technology Parks, in partnership with James O’Hara of Rockingham Group, has won the bid to run Leah’s Yard as part of the wider Heart of the City development programme. Leah’s Yard, in Sheffield city centre, is currently...

Video: Searching for ‘Lost Norton Park’

Whilst most local people know of ‘Graves Park’ named after Sheffield philanthropist and benefactor Alderman J.G. Graves, few understand the origins of Sheffield’s largest public open space. Community-based research on history, heritage, archaeology and ecology has now...