In consultation with curriculum managers I can offer linkage between specific subject-areas and the wider curriculum and the heritage resources available in Sheffield museums, libraries and archives.

Here are some examples of possibilities to enrich classroom and fieldwork experiences for students from Key Stage 2 to beyond Key Stage 5:

History:

• influence of powerful landowners –
  • 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Dukes of Norfolk
• contrast between water-powered light trades and steam-powered heavy steel
• transformation of rural settlements into urban suburbs
• changes in lifestyle from one generation to the next
• Sheffield entrepreneurs – George Bassett, John George Graves, Henry Henderson, David Mellor, J W Thornton
• radical politics – Samuel Holberry, Sheffield Outrages, Edward Carpenter
• Labour movement

Geography:

• population-change, housing clearance and migration (19th to 21st centuries)
• transport development – turnpikes, waterways, railways, motorways
• environmental pollution (cf, Science & Technology)

Science & Technology:

• coal and iron mining
• iron and steel manufacturing
• non-ferrous metals manufacturing – eg, Sheffield Plate, Assay Office
• non-metallurgical manufacturing – eg, glassworks, brickworks
• environmental pollution (cf, Geography)
• utilities – water, gas, electricity, telecommunications

Field-work opportunities:

• Doncaster Street Cementation Furnace, Shalesmoor
• Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
• Shepherd Wheel, Whiteley Woods
• Kelham Island Museum
• Magna, Templeborough
• National Coal Mining Museum for England, Overton, Wakefield