Hallamite

plural Hallamites

1. Someone with a connection to Hallamshire or modern-day Sheffield, especially

   The annual Congresses date from one held in Manchester, in Whitsun-week, 1868, and not from that held previously in Sheffield, although the Hallamites lay claim to the parentage of these annual assemblies.

   1890, George Howell, The conflicts of capital and labour historically and economically considered, a history and review of the trade unions of Great Britain, page 411

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   An enthusiastic Caledonian will occasionally talk about "that part of Scotland called England;" so enthusiastic Hallamites would seem to look upon the great county of York as a mere appendage to their own dear Hallamshire.

   1864, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Charles William Quin, John Cargill Brough, Thomas Archer (of London), William Bernhard Tegetmeier, William Jeffery Prowse, England's Workshops, page 108

2. Someone with a connection to Hallamshire or modern-day Sheffield, especially:
   1. A player or supporter of Hallam F.C.

      […]although Hallam borrowed three other players from Norton, the match was totally one-sided with the handful of Hallamites and their unlikely allies being completely outclassed.

      2013 May 13, Adrian Harvey, Football: The First Hundred Years: The Untold Story, Routledge, →ISBN, page 104

   2. A student or graduate of Sheffield Hallam University.

      We know our place (exactly), and we’re more than happy to laud it over the Hallamites.

      2016 April 18, Calum Paver, “Varsity Chants 2016: The best and the worst”, in The Tab

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      This used to have the retro 90s reversed-out negative space look, with the slogan “Sharpens your thinking” which a Hallamite friend of mine pithily altered to “Sharpens your drinking”.

      2021 December 27, Robin Wilde, “A Totally Objective Ranking of Every UK University Logo”, in Medium

comparative more Hallamite · superlative most Hallamite

1. In the style of a person named Hallam, especially

   And when the young rebel Hallam gets to Paris, if he ever does, he is going to admit this rightness, if he only does it on some rainy day while sitting at the "Cupola" (the Dôme's latest rival), listening to some emancipated Hallamite artists tearing everything to pieces after too many Pernods.

   1932 04, Town & Country

2. In the style of a person named Hallam, especially:
   1. The poet Arthur Hallam.

      His personifying requires that he give over the Hallamite project of recreating Figuring the Dawn's "Lucid Outline".

      1986, Daniel A. Harris, Tennyson and Personification: The Rhetoric of "Tithonus"

   2. The campaigner Roger Hallam.

      In the Hallamite model of protest, arrest is considered a show of sacrifice, which is in turn believed to win sympathy for the cause.

      2023, “The Public Order Act pushes us to rethink what protest can be”, in The Bristol Activist