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Brian Sprakes was educated in the history of art department at Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University), where he specialized in European architecture and stained glass. He subsequently worked as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association, Rother Valley College, and more recently for the local history department at Sheffield University. The author of several articles on stained glass, he has been a stained-glass adviser to the bishop and
diocese of Sheffield and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006.