Old Earnshavians' Website
Samuel Earnshaw takes part in a Field Trip
to Castleton in 1848
A blog by Tom Welsh, a doctoral research student and Earnshaw resident
(Hardwick and, later, top floor of Hassop) from 1975-78 and a tutor from 1976.
He claims to havre been the bane of Tony Heathcote's life!
He went on to be a lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science
at the University of Northampton before retiring in 2010.
The blog is featured on the History Matters Group
section of the University of Sheffield website.
Its introductory paragraphs are shown here.
Introduction…
This blog stems from an ongoing project that explores the potential of digital newspaper archives. Whereas newspaper research used to be a hard slog scanning through microfilm, newspapers can now be searched online. One useful application of these new tools is to investigate more widely the aspects of the history of education that were given publicity in contemporary newspapers. One of these aspects is the detailed reporting of lectures and field excursions, which are only occasionally reproduced in academic journals.
In August 1848 a party of gentlemen from Sheffield went to Castleton to learn about geology. They were members of the Sheffield Literary & Philosophical Society, and they had decided to undertake regular field trips. In 1847 they had gone to Roche Abbey near Rotherham. Castleton was their second excursion where, after exploring Peak Cavern, they gathered for an impromptu lecture by William Lee (an engineer), who explained the geology of the Peak District.
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