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Use the above timeline to find out about each era.
A guide through the cemetery is a guide through life over
a span of 150 years. It is the story of the people of Sheffield.
Their struggles, their strengths, their poverty, their wars.
During the cemetery's lifetime, great social and political
change swept through Britain and the world - the residents
of our cemetery were caught up in those events.
And now they have, unknowingly, become actors playing their
part in the unfolding of this history. Their real lives will
provide an insight into the drama of the past.
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There are some common themes that link the story of
the cemetery. They are:
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Social Conditions - that determined
the way people lived and the way people died.
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Divisions - that dictated the roles
and status of men and women, religions and cultures.
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Symbols - the cemetery's gravestones,
monuments and architecture that reflected the beliefs
and attitudes of the time.
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Just as the General Cemetery has developed, crumbled, and
then been transformed, so other things have changed - symbols
have altered, conditions improved, divisions been eroded.
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