Volume 5 Issue 7 July 1955

Sheffield and the Crimean War

Wars have left their impact in Sheffield, and the Crimean War perhaps more than any. W.H.G. Armytage marks the metamorphosis of a large-scale industrial city

The Gordon Riots

George Rudé analyses the events of what started as an anti-Catholic protest, but ended with violence and looting.

The Roman Army on the Borders

Colin Martin describes how, on the frontiers of Caledonia eighteen centuries ago, the Romans kept watch from camp and wall over turbulent northern tribes.