12 April 2024
personal reminiscences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qkzqwH3XU
5 April 2024
A leather-bound Photo Album circa 1920s depicting St Mary’s students and the Priory Hostel on London Road. The album includes photos of leisure activites like playing tennis, country walking, dancing, camping, beach scenes and graduation. It is inscribed…
8 December 2023
but if you are unable to make this reading, or would like to spend more time browsing, Special Collections and Archives hold The Cyder Press collection: https://sca.glos.ac.uk/index.php/the-cyder-press-collection along with the Dymock Poets collection: https://sca.glos.ac.uk/index.php/dymock-poets-special-collection which you can access by appointment
18 October 2023
This delightful little album, recently donated to the University Archives, contains memories, photos, poems, sketches and notes from friends and well-wishers. It was started by J E Pooley in 1901, when he attended St Paul’s College, and it…
28 October 2020
Article produced by Simona Dlugošová, University of Gloucestershire archive volunteer. This blog post is written as a response to my experience working with a selection of records produced by the Local Heritage Initiative (LHI). In the following text,…
17 March 2020
The University of Gloucestershire Special Collections & Archive announcing an Artist Residency. When Harold Macmillian was asked for the most likely scenario that could plunge the Government of course, he famously did not say ‘Events dear boy events’….
8 November 2018
Our Remembrance display marking 100 years since the end of the First World War is at Francis Close Hall Chapel until Friday 9 November. Staff and alumni from the University have crocheted 264 poppies, one for each of…
12 February 2018
There are currently three new internship opportunities in the Special Collections and Archives. University of Gloucestershire students can apply for these via the Future Plan portal: Independent Television News (ITN) Stills Archive Internship x2 The ITN Stills Archive…
6 December 2016
Last week I was involved in a session with second year Radio Production students recording in our very own Chapel of St Mary and St Paul at FCH. As part of their module MD5401 Radio Genres and Cultures,…
15 November 2016
For anyone who missed the Roll of Honour display at Park Campus last Friday, it is now available to view in the Special Collections and Archives (QU024) at Francis Close Hall. This year’s display documents those who perished…