Most of my time spent on the project so far has been either in the local Sheffield Libraries (long may they continue) or at home, rummaging around on the internet. So far, these are the texts I’ve been studying in an attempt to really get to grips with the subject.
You can find a more in-depth description of these resources on the ‘research’ page here…
Tweedale’s Directory of Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers 1740-2013
Sheffield’s Rural Fringe
Danger and Despair: Sudden Death in Victorian Sheffield
Pit Ghosts, Padfeet and Poltergeists
Sheffield Industries: Cutlery, Silver and Edge Tools
Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers
Where t’water runs o’er t’ weir
The Oxford Guide to Family History
The Five Weirs Walk
Songs of Northern England
Edgelands
A Popular History of Sheffield
The Cellar Lad
Yorkshire Oddities
The Cutlery Industry
Walking the Rivelin
Outrage! The Story of William Broadhead and the Trade Union Scandals of Victorian Sheffield
Robert Fead Mosley: a biography by Anna de Lange
Victorian Folk Songs
Diamonds in Brown Paper
The Easiest Tune Book of Country Dances
The Songs of Joseph Mather
Folk Song in England
A Sheffield Heritage: An Anthology of Photographs and Words of the Cutlery Craftsmen
Songs That Made History
Firth Brown:A Sheffield Steel Company
English Folk Songs
Heritage Song 