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Discovering, Debating, and Interpreting the Past

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Welcome to the History blog!

This is a blog which provides a forum for the students and staff of History at the University of Gloucestershire. Here, we’ll post news on our teaching, student experiences, research, publications, resources, events, and anything else even remotely…

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Dr Vicky Randall Researching British Literary Representations of the Arab-Islamic World

Dr Vicky Randall has been awarded a period of research leave this semester. While on leave she will be researching and writing a journal article on Sir John Malcolm (pictured below) and his book The History of Persia…

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Alumni Stories – Natasha Devlin

This series of posts looks at what our former students do after they graduate in History at the University of Gloucestershire. It demonstrates the various types of employment and further study they can go into. It provides useful…

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Researching Textile Heritage in Gloucestershire

This post comes from BA History student Sasha Thammer and discusses their work on exhibition at the Museum of Gloucester as part of the course. At the half-way point of their degree, history students at UoG receive the…

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Summer Updates

While the summer is a time of much needed rest and recuperation, for academics it is also a time for research. As you’ll see in the updates from each member of staff below, staff in History team have…

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Alumni Stories – Rhiannon Healey

This series of posts looks at what our former students do after they graduate in History at the University of Gloucestershire. It demonstrates the various types of employment and further study they can go into. It provides useful…

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Our Staff and Students at Heritage Schools Conference

Today at Oxstalls campus in Gloucester, myself and two of our students Ross Brown and Kelly Burriss took part in the Heritage Schools Conference. The event was organised by Voices Gloucester, the organization that is sharing diverse stories…

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My dream job – Volunteer Archivist and Historian to the Three Choirs Festival

This post comes from MA by Research alumni Simon Carpenter. For the past few years I have been the volunteer archivist and historian to the Three Choirs Festival. I started with them shortly after graduating from the University,…

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Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)

Emeritus Professor of 20th c. US History Neil Wynn pays tribute after the singer and activist’s death this week. “There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, there’s a hole in my bucket …”  So began…

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Report from History Trip to Italy

At the end of March, students from History as well as other courses in Humanities visited Rome, Naples and Pompeii over six days. The weather was kind to us as we averaged between twenty to thirty-thousand steps per…

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History Students on City Voices Community Panel

For the last few years, History students have been contributing to the yearly Gloucester History Festival by producing exhibitions on local history as part of the Cotswold Centre for History and Heritage. They have conducted research on various…

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