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You asked, we're answering: when will Now Then be back in print?

It’s the question we’ve been asked most since we moved our operations fully online at the start of the pandemic: When will Now Then return to print? Between April 2008 and March 2020, with the support ...
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Rob Hopkins, a time machine, and Sheffield learning to fall back in love with the future

I've been thinking a lot recently about the stories we tell ourselves about what is normal. Not the loud stories, the ones we argue about on social media. The quieter ones. The ones that sit ...
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What’s in a (place) name? Via the Ponderosa, Queersbrook and Eccy Road

How often do we think about the names of the places we live, work, and visit? After all, residents of Escafeld in 1086 would not only fail to recognise the vastness of the city we live in now, they ...
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The University of Sheffield are targeting another world-leading department for “significant” cuts – but staff are fighting back

School of East Asian Studies staff and students on a field trip to Tokyo, April 2023. The University of Sheffield (UoS) have announced they are planning to make “significant” staffing cuts to a highly ...
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Radical Roots: Work in Sheffield – Past, Present and Future

Better Pay For NHS Nurses rally in 2020. Whether we want it to or not, work defines us. The sort of labour we do, and the amount of time we spend doing it, go a long way towards shaping the rest of ...
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Arms trade Sheffield: Our employer, the University of Sheffield, are silencing protests about their ties with the arms industry – but we stand with our students

A member of the Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine chalks a message onto the floor ahead of the last open day. SCCP. Over the last few weeks, life on the University of Sheffield campus has grown ...
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Arms trade Sheffield: Exclusive: University of Sheffield received more money from weapons manufacturers than previously thought, new data reveals

New data seen exclusively by Now Then shows that the University of Sheffield (UoS) received even more money from companies that manufacture deadly weapons than had previously been thought, with ...
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Should Sheffield ban all outdoor advertising?

Outdoor fast food advertising on Spital Hill, March 2024. While some welcome the restrictions, others are adamant that the city should go even further and make Sheffield entirely ad-free. The decision ...
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Connecting Limbs: "We built a hotel for fish!" How architects are 'designing for life' on Sheffield's hidden rivers

Architecture is usually thought of as the process of designing buildings for humans. A house is simply “a machine for living in”, as Le Corbusier put it. But the twin climate and nature emergencies ...
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A bizarre ride to a good time: The Pharcyde at Network

The first and last time I saw The Pharcyde was almost 30 years ago in 1996, at the much-lamented Phoenix Festival and then in London as part of a great summer. So putting rose-tinted spectacles aside, ...
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What does the River Don mean to the people of Sheffield?

Rivers are powerful beings. They can make or break our towns and cities – many ancient settlements are only where they are because they were founded on the banks of a river, which centuries later may ...
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Arms trade Sheffield: Not in our name: Sheffield councillors vote to support city becoming "anti-apartheid zone", and call for tougher action on Israel's genocide

Sheffield councillors have backed a strongly-worded motion condemning the actions of Israel and calling on the UK government to take much tougher action to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza, including ...