Now Then - A Magazine for Sheffield

Data reveals the institution has received more investment from weapons manufacturers than any other university in the UK.

The incredibly misguided #AskDontAssume campaign is sending the wrong message. The last thing we need is to encourage more people to ask disabled people to volunteer personal information.

Highlights include a re-release for the greatest concert film of all time and an art exhibition in one of the city's brutalist icons. Main image credit: Bill Stephenson

Intangible Objects What’s the opposite of a tangible dream?

Emily Redfearn Breathing life into the everyday

Anis Tabaraee “I challenged myself to represent my contemporary era through my art”

Tyler Mellins Sigils and dark echoes

Colours of Sheffield “I've always been fascinated by colour and what different combinations can evoke”

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Live, laugh, and laugh some more.

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State violence maintains borders and the hostile environment.

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Strange Days' visionary sophomore Sheffield festival showcases the UK's very best alt-indie, writes Steve Hunting.

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Local musician and activist talks about the importance of community building and commoning in the face of uncertainty and the multiple crises humanity is facing up to.

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A proposal by two architecture students would see the iconic stately home turned into a hub for climate activism, while also exploring its links with empire and colonialism.

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Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen celebrates and challenges the way we think about food and cooking. The writer told us more about the book and its ideas ahead of an in-conversation event at Gut Level with Juno Books.

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Give Over Sheffield histories to be uncovered in living archives through art and community

Students seize Arts Tower to protest Sheffield University links with arms manufacturers

Don’t ask and don’t assume – no matter what the government says

Sensoria Five unmissable events at this year's Sensoria festival in Sheffield

Intangible Objects What’s the opposite of a tangible dream?

Emily Redfearn Breathing life into the everyday

Anis Tabaraee “I challenged myself to represent my contemporary era through my art”

Tyler Mellins Sigils and dark echoes

Colours of Sheffield “I've always been fascinated by colour and what different combinations can evoke”

Latest stories

The Leadmill Comedy Club

Give Over Britain’s attitude to refugees shows, once again, that it’s a colonial nation

Live / stage review Float Along 2023 surfs a joyous wave of success

"These are the questions we have to live": Roshan Lal on commons and joyful struggles

Is it time to dismantle Chatsworth House?

Rebecca May Johnson “I want to blow up the kitchen and rebuild it to cook again”

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