Neil Anderson (writer)

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Neil Anderson
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Neil Anderson in 2025
Born
Sheffield, United Kingdom
OccupationWriter, historian journalist
Notable worksDirty Stop Out's Guide series
Website
neilandersonmedia.com

Neil Anderson is an English writer and journalist. He first gained recognition in the mid-1990s with the Dirty Stop Out's Guide to Sheffield, which was published at the height of the dance club explosion of the era. He is also known for Sheffield's Date With Hitler, which formed the basis of the BBC One Sheffield The Forgotten Blitz documentary.

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Background

Sheffield-born Anderson has been a music and entertainment writer and journalist since leaving Sheffield Hallam University in the mid-1990s. He was a Sheffield Telegraph columnist for over a decade and has written for titles spanning The Independent to The Big Issue . Anderson originally started out as a hairdresser but landed a job in Sheffield City Hall's publicity office whilst still at university. He was soon promoted to Sheffield City Council's press office. He left in 2000 to pursue his media career.

Career

Dirty Stop Out’s Guide series

Anderson is best known for the Dirty Stop Out’s Guide series, which combines rare photographs, first-hand accounts and social history research to document the nightlife, venues and cultural life of British cities. The series began with Sheffield editions in the 1990s and has since expanded to cover other locations including Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Coventry, Barnsley and Chesterfield. [1]

Other work

Take It to the Limit, published in 2020, chronicles the venue The Limit, which ran on Sheffield's West Street from 1978 to 1991. Sheffield's Date With Hitler was published in 2010 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Sheffield Blitz. The book formed the basis of the BBC One Sheffield The Forgotten Blitz documentary. In 2010, Anderson wrote Signing on for the Devil, which chronicled Sheffield's heavy metal music scene in the 1980s. Anderson is a regular contributor to the international music magazine Vive Le Rock.

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Books written by Neil Anderson

Books edited/published by Neil Anderson

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Front cover of Sheffield's Shocking Past by Chris Hobbs and Matthew Bell

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