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If you're in London on November 25th, and you want to hear me talk about Kes, regional filmmaking, class, and authorship, this might be the event for you: whatson.bfi.org.uk/online/default…

🎉HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY TO US🌟 The second episode in our new #NFCAat30 podcast series is now available to listen to on University of Sheffield Player and YouTube! Hear illustrator Graham Downie talk about his involvement with the NFCA, the Fairground Mercury and more! ➡️ tinyurl.com/nhzhrzw3

It is Explore Your Archive week! 🎉 To kick off, the first theme is #Decisions… So who decides what collections we take in? We have an Acquisitions Advisory Group who discuss if we are the appropriate place for a new acquisition and whether we can care for it 🤔#EYADecisions #EYA

One of our #heroes in our collections is Dr Mary Prowse Gell (1894-1978) doctor and lecturer in medicine. After studying medicine The University of Sheffield, Gell moved to China as a medical missionary. Browse the collection here ➡️ tinyurl.com/ymtkpv6f #EYAHeroes #EYA Explore Your Archive

🎉HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY TO US🌟 Listen to the third episode of #NFCAat30 podcast now on University of Sheffield Player and Youtube! Professor Stephen Walker, Head of Architecture The University of Manchester and fairground architecture enthusiast, talks about his research and work with the NFCA over the years!🎠

These #tiny medals made by Spink & Son are 3.9cm and were presented to local schoolchildren who attended the opening ceremony of The University of Sheffield in July 1905 by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. The ribbons represent the university's colours! 🏅 #EYATiny #EYA Explore Your Archive

Our largest archive is the Arthur Scargill Archive... it is a Mount Everest of paper! 🗻Cataloguing is a huge task but our Archivist Rob is making progress and it should be accessible towards the end of next year 👀 Check out the before and after! #EYAHuge #EYA Explore Your Archive

Thomas Rowlandson was an artist and caricaturist famous for his political satire and social observation. What do you think he was trying to say about the #fashion in 1801? 🎩👒🤠 #EYAFashion #EYA Explore Your Archive

🎪 Celebrating 30 years of the National Fairground and Circus Archive! professorvanessa reflects on her Showmen roots, the people who inspired her, and the unique collections that shaped the National Fairground and Circus Archive. Discover her story and the archive’s legacy: bit.ly/4fMWP9O

Orton, Sons and Spooner Ltd, a British engineering company, used creatures from #mythology in their pioneering fairground ride designs such as dragons and unicorns 🦄🐉 Browse more of our digital collections here ➡️tinyurl.com/26x634d6 #EYAMythology #EYA Explore Your Archive

🪩 🕺💃Good vibes only at Intro Week ‘75. Debates, coffee parties, treasure hunts, coach trips, folk concerts, judo displays and the obligatory Intro Disco ‘Start the week as you mean to go on!’ 💃🕺🪩#EYADisco

British student Madeleine Blaess from Yorkshire wrote letters to her family about her experience of being trapped in Nazi-occupied Paris in WWII. Find out more about the Blaess collection here ➡️tinyurl.com/muwtm7nv #EYAFamily #EYA Explore Your Archive

🦮 Did you know David Blunkett’s guide dog, Ruby was the first dog to be allowed into the House of Commons when they visited together in 1971? #EYAAnimals #EYA Explore Your Archive

Letters, emails, Coronation Street, scrapbooks, concrete poetry, floppy disks, miners, kestrels, photographs, Hats of Humanity, jazz and film reels are some of the things you can find in our archives… What would you put in #YourArchive? #EYAYourArchive #EYA Explore Your Archive

🎉HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY TO US!🌟 The 4th episode of our #NFCAat30 podcast is available to listen to on University of Sheffield Player and Youtube! This ep, our special guest is Professor Brendan Walker, the only thrill engineer in the world! Listen here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5buw6eje

🎉HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY TO US🌟 We are celebrating 30 years of the NFCA by releasing a podcast series on University of Sheffield Player and YouTube! The 5th #NFCAat30 episode features the President of the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain, Mark Twitchett! tinyurl.com/2fd68cbr

Our Reading Room closes for Christmas after Thursday 19th December and reopens on Monday 6th January. Our enquiry service will close after Friday 20th December and will reopen on 2nd January. We hope everyone has a wonderful festive break when it gets here!

🎉HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY TO US🌟 Next up in our #NFCAat30 podcast is special guest Joanna Whittle jowhittle-art , an artist who works with landscape and archival sources and collections. Listen to all episodes on University of Sheffield Player and our YouTube channel ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdhjcnhy

🎉In 2024 we celebrated 30 years of the National Fairground and Circus Archive!🎉 Our #NFCAat30 podcast highlights some of the amazing collections we hold and incredible people we have worked with. Listen NOW on University of Sheffield Player ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdcmnd4z