A Break in the Clouds
A Break in the Clouds is a collaborative film project funded by the AHRC Connected Communities programme which develops earlier research on people, landscape and weather in Mosser, Cumbria, during the late eighteenth century. In particular, the historical diaries of two residents of the area, Isaac Fletcher and Elihu Robinson, provided fantastic glimpses into how…
On Shared Ground
On Shared Ground examines the connected and disconnected networks of community participation in heritage research. By ‘disconnected’, we are referring to groups or individuals on the margins and edges of communities who have connections and relationships with a specific heritage landscape, but are not currently involved in the production of histories, narratives and discourses relating…
Transmitting Musical Heritage
Music is a cultural product of society, a sonic reflection of ideologies and behaviours – a performative heritage. When musical sound passes from player-to-player, or player-to-audience, we question what of this cultural meta-data travels with it, and how. Combining the expertise of three community partners and academics from the University of Sheffield the research addresses…
Global Cotton Connections
The Global Cotton Connections project runs from February 2014 to January 2015 and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Connected Communities programme. The project seeks to examine the global histories and legacies of cotton in the UK’s Derbyshire Peak District through archival research and active engagement with local…
Roma Stories
This project is a collaboration between Sheffield Babel Songs, filmmaker Gemma Thorpe, the AHRC funded project, Researching Community Heritage and a group of young people from Slovakia, now living in Page Hall in Sheffield, an area which has been the subject of national debates regarding community integration and tensions between residents. As part of the…
