Hollis Croft: A matter of time

Mili Rajic
Open Access Logo
  Download PDF Buy this Book

Description

Sheffield, mid-19 century, the peak of the steel industry that both built and scarred the city. Dark streets and darker attitudes smother life in the grimy tenements and back streets. 

A young woman, Neive, leaves the poverty of her parents' home in West Ireland to seek work in the industrial cities of Northern England. 

She finds herself in Sheffield, having to hide her femininity to get work in steel cementation factories, she must also hide her forbidden love.

An unlikely salvation occurs to her in the shape of a famous circus impresario... but will her plan lead her to a new life?

Archaeologist Milica (Mili) Rajic imagines a human story entwined within the archaeological remnants and artefacts uncovered in the heavily industrialised Victorian Sheffield. 

Details

Published Published By Pages ISBN
Jan. 1, 2020 Wessex Archaeology 74 978-1-911137-21-4
License Information
Copyright © Wessex Archaeology. This work is openly licensed via CC BY-NC-ND 4.0