Sheffield

Mark is also a technician.

in I think, oh, somewhere at Sheffield by the looks of things.

So, hey Mark from Sheffield and your fellow technicians.

This Guardian article, scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman color changing glass.

This 1,600-year-old Lycurgus cup has been baffling experts for centuries.

Depending on where a light source is positioned, the lycurgus cup changes colour from jade green under normal lighting to ruby red when lit from behind.

It's an astonishing feat of optical engineering that has confounded historians and glassmakers for centuries.

Now scientists from the University of Sheffield have replicated its remarkable optic behavior using an ancient recipe derived from a fragment of the Roman dichroic, which is two-colored, original.

What was it again, Becky? Ethel Haythornthwaite.

Ethel Hearthworth, because she's a countryside campaigner from Sheffield.

She helped protect the Peak District from development and was instrumental in it becoming Britain's first national park in 1951.

So this is a nice story.

We're all right.

And then he subsequently tried to retcon that, didn't he? This was in 1987, the rally in Sheffield, which obviously spooked middle England.

And he tried to retcon that by saying, well, you know, you know, I wasn't, I wasn't trying to sound like an American.

It was something to do with the pub.

And there's a similar sort of inquiry that happens with Robin Hood.

This comes to your investigation where you think that there's evidence of his background, starting with this full title of Robin of Woxley, which places him in the town of Sheffield.

So can you talk about this forensic investigation?

Yes.

I mean, oddly enough, people around Sheffield and Nottingham, they all cling to the legend one way or another.

At the time, I'm actually mentioning Robin Hood in the Sheffield area.

Sheffield didn't actually exist as a place at all.

It was about four fields of plowlands and no housing at all.

So picture this with me.

A woman goes in a regular house on a regular street in Sheffield city in the UK.

It's nothing special.

A shop on the ground floor, the family rooms in the back and upstairs, and below, a cellar with a kitchen.

That woman in white would be the last thing she ever sees, because two days later, she dies.

This is the story of the Campo Lane Ghost.

We go back to 1855, February, and winter's hand was still lying across Sheffield, Lancashire.

We're in the Peak District, not too far away from Wadsborough Hall and its famous White Lady Ghost.

But first, my name is James Humphrey and during the summer term I took a sabbatical from teaching design and technology so I could ride the length of the country, meeting craftspeople along the way and chatting about the ideas and processes behind their work.

In this eleventh episode I talk to Sheffield-based stone sculptor Steve Roche.

Steve creates large-scale works of public spaces using physical maquettes, CAD and carefully selected stone to develop forms connected to the history and identity of a place.

We discuss scale models, sustainability and how his designs move from small models to finished sculptures constructed from several layers of carved stone.

So I've been here for about 14 years.

I do letter carving, but kind of moved into doing public realm sculpture.

Lily moved back to Sheffield a little while ago, and it was quite a good fit, and she moved in.

Oh, fantastic.

But for, say, somebody who's in Europe or North America, maybe is less familiar with the differences between Chinese cities and urban spaces.

What makes this just another Tuesday for a place like Shenzhen as opposed to, say, Sheffield in England or another city in China?

For people who are not familiar with Shenzhen, I would say Shenzhen is the epicenter of China's innovation.

I think a lot of people heard of Beijing and Shanghai, which are famous for culture, history.

And for those people that listened and watched to the first episode that we did in, uh, based around Nottingham, um, this time our focus has moved to South Yorkshire.

So we look at both the Sheffield clubs, uh, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham.

And obviously, um, uh, With three of those teams in our league, there should be some interest for some Luton fans as well for an away day.

So we go through all of the kind of pubs, places to go and eat, drink, best ways to get there.