#Sheffield Hallam

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Hallam Tower Hotel, Sheffield

Lanyon & Zennor Quoit, West Penwith, Cornwall.

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Vic Hallam system built housing,

Sheffield 1963/4.

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A Palestinian lecturer exposed by the JC after she met the terrorist hijacker Leila Khaled and praised her as a “beautiful fighter” has left her employer, Sheffield Hallam University, the JC can reveal.

The disclosure – made to this newspaper by a senior university official – came on the eve of an announcement today that Sheffield Hallam is about to build a second, southern branch at Brent Cross, in the heart of north London’s Jewish community.

The lecturer, Shahd Abusalama, was cleared by an internal university inquiry that reported in February, when she was given a new contract as an associate lecturer – an event she celebrated on social media, saying she had been “wholly exonerated of the false charges of antisemitism, brought under the not-fit-for-purpose IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Association] definition.”

However, shortly afterwards she became the subject of a fresh complaint by a Jewish student, and the university commissioned a second investigation by human rights barrister Akua Reindorf.

Speaking to the JC, Sheffield Hallam’s deputy vice chancellor, Richard Calvert, said confidentiality rules meant he could give details of neither the second complaint nor Ms Reindorf’s findings.

But he added: “She is no longer an employee of the university. She’s not worked for us for a number of months.”

Until now, neither the second investigation nor the end of Dr Abusalama’s contract have been made public.  

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Comics Up Close returns next month, at Sheffield Hallam University

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Manchester, the organisations behind Comics Up Close, have revealed the schedule for “Origin Stories”, taking place next month

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Manchester, the organisations behind Comics Up Close, have revealed the schedule for this year’s event, “Origin Stories”,  taking place at Sheffield Hallam University on Wednesday 21st February 2024. Tickets available via Eventbrite. Comics Up Close 2024 speakers include Steven Appleby, Karrie Fransman…

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Anti-China Institutions Spin ‘Forced Labor’ Lies to Undermine China’s Competitiveness in Renewables

— James Smith | December 04, 2023

Slandering Xinjiang! The New Normal of the Empire of Lies. Illustration: Vitaly Podvitski

Over the weekend, an article in the BBC accused the British Army of using firms linked to "Uygur Forced Labor" in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to invest in over £200 million of solar panels in order to meet its renewable energy targets. The article, citing a report from Sheffield Hallam University's "Helena Kennedy Centre," argued in favor of supply chain diversification by cutting reliance on China, which dominates the global Solar Panel supply chain.

The report didn't substantiate its findings, only using the term "'very high' exposure" in an ambiguous fashion, yet the article repeated its claims as though they're facts. The British government at large has avoided confronting China on solar panels, recognizing that the UK has limited industrial capacity and is under tremendous pressure to meet its net zero targets. On the other hand, such documentation was used readily to ban their import in the United States under a blanket assumption of guilt, which speaks volumes about the true motivations of this research.

The "Uygur forced labor" issue is a ruse, exclusively driven by the US government. It's designed to promote anti-China supply chain diversifications and commercially motivated protectionism, targeting goods which the US deems "strategic." Starting in 2021, the Biden administration U-turned on the Trump administration's neglect of environmentalism and declared that its fundamental policy goal was to dominate the "technologies of the future," which in turn constitutes renewable energy goods - solar panels, electric batteries, cars and similar technologies.

In doing so, a number of "Studies" quickly materialized from US-funded and linked institutions which, lacking direct evidence, accused China of utilizing forced labor from the Uygur minority in the Xinjiang autonomous region in order to make solar panels. This has never been proven, yet the allegations were repeated by the mainstream media and quickly led up to several US policy decisions including a ban on Chinese made solar panels, as well as all goods from the Xinjiang region, all of which were meted on a "guilty until proven innocent" premise which asked companies to "prove a negative," all of which were in deliberate bad faith.

Beyond Santa’s Ability! Global Times, December 06, 2023, Illustration: Liu Rui

The Helena Kennedy Centre in the United Kingdom is but one particular example of how such "Research" institutes are used to co-opt and market America's commercial, economic and strategic goals. The head of the center, Baroness Helena Kennedy, is a hardline anti-China figure who is the founder of the Sinophobic "Interparliamentary Alliance on China" (IPAC) organization. IPAC is, by its own public admission, funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and also the Taiwan island authorities. Similarly, the primary researcher in the Helena Kennedy Centre who created this solar panel "Forced Labor" report, Laura Murphy, is an employee of the US Department of Homeland Security.

What becomes visible is a "web" of anti-China institutions which works to create this content, which is then amplified by the media with its claims taken at face value, and whose aim is to undermine China's commercial competitiveness. The real problem is that China is a world leader in solar panel manufacturing and renewable energy goods, and the United States seeks to undermine this for its own economic gain. Thus, to do this, it resorts to bad faith tactics designed at promoting market exclusion that weaponizes the rhetoric of human rights. The real US policy thinking is explicitly reflected in the Inflation Reduction Act which seeks to weaponize tariffs on a wide range of Chinese renewable goods, irrespectively, without any façade of intention.

It becomes even more telling in this respect that minimal resources, media attention or interest are given towards legitimate reports of real human slavery or forced labor practices around the world, especially those committed in countries allied to the United States. Instead, it is used as a ruse to discredit products they disapprove of or seek to sanction. For instance, if it is not feasible to accuse products of being made with "forced labor," it usually instead emerges in the form of baseless accusations of "espionage" or being a "national security threat" such as the attacks on Huawei or Hikvision.

All in all, it is evident that to try and forcibly exclude China from the global solar panel supply chain, who provides 80 percent of the world's total, will be economically, commercially, and thus environmentally devastating. Such bans would forcibly narrow the market, drive up prices and set the world back decades. Given this, the UK is really not in any capacity to actually act on the propaganda which is being laundered, hence the government only says it will keep an eye and audit its suppliers accordingly.

— The author is a Political and Hstorical Relations Analyst.

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oh my god the sheffield tv channel (presumably if your aerial points to yorkshire you can see it?) and nick park (AARDMAN, WALLACE AND GROMIT GUY,) was the camera man for a film showing the sheffield victoria station

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Terror-supporting professor ‘no longer employed’ by British university

Terror-supporting professor ‘no longer employed’ by British university

A university official confirmed that Professor Abusalama, who had initially been cleared of wrongdoing, has left the institution. By World Israel News Staff A Gaza-born professor who met with a notorious Palestinian hijacker and publicly supported terrorists who murdered Israelis is no longer employed by a British university. An initial probe into her statements had cleared her of wrongdoing. In…

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Nov 13 2007. Backstage at Sheffield Hallam FM Arena. Shot by Paul Harries.

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Tiny photos of Ray at the Sheffield Hallam FM Arena in Sheffield, UK on Nov. 13, 2007. Photos by Shari from blackvelvetmagazine

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Hallam Tower Hotel, (background, sadly now demolished)

Photograph taken from The Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.

July 2017

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My former life...

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (flickr)

Sheffield Hallam University, Surrey Lane

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I got very very bored at one point looking at the coverage. Yes, we just stole Truss’s seat. But what about other former party leaders? What happened to their constituencies?

With every seat now declared, I decided to look at every Conservative, Labour, Liberal Party, Liberal Democrat, and pre-continuing SDP leader from 1960 to 2010 only and the seat they held when they were in government. If the borders changed, I tracked down the constituency closest to it. Then I looked at the results from this general election. Here’s some things I learnt.

- The former Conservative leader seats that stayed Tory were the ones of Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, John Major, William Hague, and of course Iain Duncan Smith. The seat of Bromley and Biggin Hill (Macmillan’s Bromley seat) had a majority of only 302. Hague’s stayed Conservative because… well it’s Sunak’s seat.

- The seats of former Tory leaders more closely associated with One Nation Conservatism or Thatcher’s “wets” stayed Tory with majorities within the 4000s (i.e. Edward Heath and John Major)

- Douglas-Home’s went to the SNP. This is the only case of this happening among them all

- Thatcher’s seat went to Labour. Michael Howard’s seat also went to Labour

- Former Labour leader seats had the highest consistent safe seat majorities. The highest was for Knowsley which was created from Knowsley South which was then created from Harold Wilson’s Huyton seat.

- The seats for Hugh Gaitskell’s Leeds South, James Callaghan’s Cardiff South and Penarth and Michael Foot’s Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney (created from his Blaenau Gwent seat) all achieved over 10,000 for a majority.

- Neil Kinnock out of all the former Labour leaders had the lowest majority regarding the seat of Caerphilly (merged with his seat of Islwyn). This seat had a lower majority than Kinnock’s son Stephen, a current MP.

- All the former Labour leader seats were either holds or Labour gains. The gains were for Airdrie and Shotts (John Smith, created from Monklands East), Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor (Tony Blair, created from Sedgefield) and Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (Gordon Brown).

- The Liberal Democrats gained three seats where a former leader of the party held it. These are North Devon (Jeremy Thorpe), Yeovil (Paddy Ashdown) and Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (Charles Kennedy, created from the seat Ross, Skye and Lochaber). Excluding the parameters I set yearwise, this number goes up to four with the seat of Mid Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson, created from the seat East Dunbartonshire).

- The seat of Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (created from David Steel’s Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) is the only Conservative hold among all former non-Conservative leader seats.

- The seats of the two SDP leaders who led in the Alliance before the 1987 election, Roy Jenkins and David Owen, both had their seats gained by Labour. Jenkins’ was a gain from the SNP and Owen’s was a gain from the Tories.

- The two Liberal Democrat holds for their former leaders were for Orkney and Shetland (Jo Grimond, Liberal Party) and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Robert Maclennan, the SDP leader who helped with the merger).

- Nick Clegg’s seat Sheffield Hallam is a Labour hold with the Liberal Democrats second. The majority is 8,189.

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Origin Stories: Call for Papers for Comics Up Close event in February 2024

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Sheffield Hallam and Manchester University, the organisations behind Comics Up Close, have just issued a Call for Papers for their next conference taking place in February 2024, deadline fast approaching

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Sheffield Hallam and Manchester University, the organisations behind Comics Up Close, have just issued their Call for Papers for their next academic conference taking place in February 2024. The deadline for proposals is 19th November. Comics Up Close launched last February, its inaugural event taking place at Manchester Museum, a project created by…

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Videos to Watch if You Enjoyed "Cling Fast"

How Much Booze Did Medieval People Really Drink? - Dr. Eleanor Janega teaches us how to booze it up, White Horse-style.

Could You Make a Living in Medieval London? - Another great Eleanor Janega video about occupations, scandals, and the every day lives of every day folks in Medieval cities.

What Was Life Really Like For A Medieval Peasant? - the last of the Eleanor Janega videos about what kind of life Hob Gadling would have lived before he met his Stranger.

A Tudor Feast - domestic historians and archeologists Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter "Fonz" Ginn and Hugh Beamish - under the supervision of Marc Meltonville of Hampton Court Palace's Tudor kitchens - prepare and serve a tudor banquet at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four

Who Do You Think You Are: Danny Dyer Learns Tudor Etiquette - A segment from the Ancestry.com series following actor Danny Dyer as he explores his royal roots.

Who Would Be King of England Today According to Henry VIII's Will? - chartmaker Matt Baker takes us through the royal family tree from Henry the Eighth to the present day, if his edict that the next monarch in the event that his three children (Mary, Edward, and Elizabeth) produced no heirs, then the crown should next fall to the children of his youngest sister. And not, as actually happened, go to James of Scotland.

Royal Myths: Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada - Dr. Lucy Worsley talks us through the propaganda and fibs that have sprung up around Good Queen Bess, and whether or not she really did declare that she had the stomach of a king.

Dancing Cheek to Cheek: The Devil's Work - Another great series by Dr. Lucy Worsley, chief curator of Royal Historic Palaces, but this time she's joined by Strictly Come Dancing's Len Goodman. They trace the history of dance in Britain, and this episode features some rowdy Medieval and Elizabethan numbers.

Turn Back Time: Tudor Monastery Farm - This series sees Ruth, Alex, and Peter return to the Elizabethan age, this time spending a year on a farm worked by peasants and serfs in service to the church.

The Tudors' Bizarre 12 Days Of Christmas Ritual - The Tudor Monastery Farm Christmas special.

Hardwick Hall: A window onto the Elizabethan world - Sheffield Hallam University gives a great look at Hardwick Hall (more glass than wall), the estate home of the wealthiest woman in Britain at the time, and the kind of place Hob would have aspired to build.

Tudor Food & Etiquette Explained in 14 Minutes - Quick and dirty explanation of where your napkin goes and who the 'chairman of the board' was.

Tudor Houses Explained in 10 Minutes - Not particularly engagingly presented, but a video chock full of visual examples of different kinds of Tudor houses and buildings.

Modern History: The Knight - Jason Kingsley introduces us to the concept behind Modern History and in particular their first series, “The Knight”. Jason has been fascinated by history his whole life, in particular the medieval period and the life of knights. (This is the first video of a playlist).

Royal Armouries - Elizabethan Swordsmanship - a demonstration by weaponsmasters at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. (I recommend turning on closed captioning for this one, as the sound was recorded live with no mics.)

Getting Dressed - Tudor Royal Household - a nice, even-paced and well produced video showing what it was like to get dressed in queen Katherine Parr's household.

Dressing Up a Tudor Man - my personal heroes at Prior Attire show us what the blokes were wearing at the time. Keep in mind that this is 40 years too early for Hob and Dream's disastrous Shakespeare-ruined feast. (I recommend turning on closed captioning for this one, as the sound was recorded live with no mics.)

And just for the fun of it:

Medieval Pickup Lines from the folks behind (I believe?) Whores of Yore, and Top Tudor Historian Rates Famous Movie Scenes, wherein Dr Nicola Tallis, British historian and author of three books on the Tudors, rates scenes from five blockbuster movies set in the Tudor period. (I love how scandalized she gets.)

If you want more, I really recommend anything at all featuring Doctors Lucy Worsley, Eleanor Janega, and Ruth Goodman (search their names on YouTube and you'll find a wealth of clips, full episodes, and even playlists.)

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Division House boasts 39 stylish studios across three floors, delivering a total of 23,713 sq ft of contemporary living space. Conveniently situated in central Sheffield, between Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield, this development is popular among young professionals and students alike. - MCR Homes

Who cares! Division House is a concrete (ex-office?) block of rather small proportions, but that makes it all the more charming. Notice the incised triangles in-between the retrofitted windows.

The block next door is good, too, but I couldn't get a good shot of it. The tower in-between separates the two buildings nicely.