11 September 2018
University of Gloucestershire Public Lecture Series Friday 5 October 2018, 6pm, TC001, Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ Free entry. Please register via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edward-thomas-and-nature-melancholy-ecstasy-and-the-strange-sweetness-tickets-49387593622 Following an introduction to the work of the Friends of the Dymock Poets…
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Special Collections and Archives at the university has secured important letters written by the famous American poet Robert Frost for their Dymock Poets Special Collection. The university, with the aid of grants from Friends of the National Libraries…
Read more29 May 2018
The Special Collections and Archives have teamed up with the Friends of the Dymock Poets to organise a cataloguing group to help access some of our Dymock Poets material in more detail. Meeting once a month, the aim…
Read more1 May 2018
The Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive was donated to the Special Collections and Archives in November 2017. It includes over 80,000 photographic images and negatives from the ITN corporate press archive, documenting national and international news. It…
Read more12 April 2018
The Special Collections and Archives will be open during the following days of the Easter break: Monday 26 March 9am – 5pm Tuesday 27 March 9am – 5pm Wednesday 28 March – Closed Thursday 29 March – Closed…
Read more12 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…
Read more16 January 2018
During the Christmas holidays I had the pleasure of collecting a major donation of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson material from Mr John Chirgwin. Gibson is one of the Dymock Poets and hails from Hexham in Northumberland, where fate had…
Read more22 December 2017
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 Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education’s Pittville Campus. Artists’ Books are created by…
Read more13 December 2017
The Special Collections and Archives will close to enquiries at 6pm on Friday 22 December 2017, re-opening at 10am on Monday 8 January 2018. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our researchers!
Read more23 November 2017
Last week I visited the John Masefield Society Archive in Ledbury. It is always nice to get out from behind the desk, and having been a fan of Masefield’s The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights since childhood…
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