9 October 2014
What is it to ‘do’ public history? This is a question our students are asked to address in a number of different modules and which I was forced to ask myself as a result of attending a couple…
1 September 2014
A new academic year is upon us, and that also means a new round of fascinating talks from the Gloucestershire Historical Association. Topics include Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain, the Napoleonic Prussian General Marshal Blucher, pilgrimage in Spain…
29 January 2014
Professor Tim Ingold is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and one of our most influential and innovative thinkers on the…
24 October 2013
On Monday, October 28th, at 5.30pm in QU122, this year’s series of History Research Seminars at UoG will begin with a paper from our very own Dr Christian O’Connell. We hope to see you there, and as a…
17 September 2013
The Gloucestershire Branch of the Historical Association hosts numerous fascinating talks throughout the year which are always well worth attending. This year’s programme commences on September 23rd, with the Annual General Meeting and a talk by David Swinson…
17 May 2013
Two of our postgraduates are presenting papers this Monday, 20th May, at a public event. Please do attend, they are both undertaking some very interesting work! Sarah Dickinson, ‘Preparation and Performance: Puritan Experiences of Dying in Early Modern…
26 February 2013
The Tewkesbury Historical Society plays host to Dr Madge Dresser on March 21st. Dr Dresser, author of Slavery Obscured, will be delivering an illustrated talk on the topic of Britain’s slave trade at Tewkesbury Methodist Church from 7.45pm….
24 January 2013
Hannah Grist – Introduction to Paper: “Dennis Potter Heritage Project: Autoethnography as Methodology” In this paper I will explore a part of the layered methodological approach I have adopted to study the heritage sector-led management of Dennis Potter’s…
19 November 2012
‘Royalist Print and Textual Space, 1643-1646’ Tonight our colleague Paul Jones is delivering a paper for the History Seminar series, entitled ‘Royalist Print and Textual Space, 1643-1646’. Please find an abstract of Paul’s paper below: In recent years…