This article first appeared in the transactions of The Hunter Archaeological Society and is reproduced by kind permission of the Society. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SHEFFIELD SCHOOL OF ANATOMY IN 1835: A POPULAR RESPONSE TO CLASS LEGISLATION By F. K. DONNELLY On the morning of January 26, 1835, the Sheffield School of Anatomy in Eyre Street was completely wrecked by a crowd of `upwards of 1000 persons'.[1] At 7.00 a.m. a group of about thirty men and youths forcibly entered the building, thre