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…
Read more29 January 2024
A fascinating look at the evolution of the university To see details of all the collections the university holds , see our catalogue https://sca.glos.ac.uk/ Why not take the time to arrange a visit to your university Archives and…
Read more20 December 2023
The book titled ‘150 years of Art Education’ was put together by the School of Art, Media & Design at the University of Gloucestershire (designated as a university in 2001). It was intended to indicate the range of…
Read more8 December 2023
The Special Collections and Archives will close for the Christmas break on Wednesday 20 December 2023 at 5pm. The service will re-open on Wednesday 3 January 2024 at 1pm If you’d like to visit the Special Collections and…
Read more8 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
Read more18 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…
Read more27 September 2023
David Bryant studied to become a teacher at St Paul’s College, (a predecessor college of the University of Gloucestershire), and he appears on the St Paul’s student register for September 1953 – June1955 He is acknowledged as the…
Read more25 September 2023
The university’s Archives were approached by a lady in Australia, who wanted to know if we held in our collections, any records of the early days of the colleges. She had been told that her Great, Great, Great…
Read more25 September 2023
The Artists’ Books Collection was established in 1998 following the exhibition Books As Art held at Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Town Hall and the Pittville Campus of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education (a predecessor college of…
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