Sheffield’s energy and industry story, past, present and future The story Sheffield’s life as an industrial city began as a low carbon one. Chief Executive of Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust, John Hamshere takes up the narrative...
Sheffield’s energy and industry story, past, present and future The story Sheffield’s life as an industrial city began as a low carbon one. Chief Executive of Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust, John Hamshere takes up the narrative...
The story of the shift to steam was not driven by affordability, or power, but through its convenience and the control it enabled over the workforce, as Renata Tyszczuk writes…
As technology changed the industrial landscape changed with factories moving from along the rivers, yet in Sheffield, unlike its industrial neighbours Leeds, Derby and Manchester, consisted of many small workshops and self -employed Little Mesters.
With the changes in the ways factories and work was organised, so too came social changes, including the way in which we organised time and our days, and our cities. Yet the effect of this is that on current discourse is that fossil fuels are the only way that we can power our lives in the 21st century society. The Stories of Change projects wants to question these assumptions, and show that it has been otherwise and can be again…
Story created by Future Works, 02 Sep 2016