A Multimedia Exploration of the Story of Vulcan, Blending Film, Poetry, Sound, Music, Art and Science
Ann Beedham’s father Jack started work in the Sheffield steel plants in 1936, aged 14, and is featured in a Sheffield Star book ‘100 Years of Stainless Steel‘, edited by...
18 September 2024
For this post, I’m grateful to have had access to a copy of a small booklet written by Sylvia Pybus entitled Vulcan: From Mount Olympus to Sheffield, published in 1997...
18 July 2024
The story of Vulcan – god of fire, furnaces and volcanoes – is rich with incredible visual and story-telling possibilities. As my knowledge of the myth grows, that intersection with...
10 June 2024
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