13 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…
Read more26 October 2017
We recently purchased some new John Drinkwater material to add to our extensive holdings on the Dymock Poets. These plays and speeches were once part of John Drinkwater’s own personal library, and includes a cancelled edition of the…
Read more25 September 2017
The Special Collections and Archives service has moved from Francis Close Hall to Delta Place, where all of our collections are now located. Over the summer we’ve transformed an open-plan office into a repository for the University Archive…
Read more26 July 2017
We’re excited to announce that this year the University of Gloucestershire will again take part in Heritage Open Days, a national initiative that sees places of historic interest open their doors to the public for free. On Sunday 10th…
Read more20 February 2017
The University of Gloucestershire Special Collections and Archives are currently involved in a project with other AtoM catalogue software users to make our descriptions available on the Archives Hub. Archives Hub brings together catalogues from hundreds of higher…
Read more13 February 2017
Today I had a visit from 2nd year Creative Writing students and their tutor Lania. We looked at material from our Dymock Poets Special Collection and U A Fanthorpe Archive, even listening to an audio recording of Robert…
Read more9 February 2017
Last month I attended the Beyond the Lecture Theatre conference at the University of Aberdeen. It was both the furthest north I’ve travelled and my first time in the city, and after braving the winds off the North…
Read more6 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,…
Read more2 December 2016
The Special Collections and Archives service will be closed to researchers from Wednesday 21 December 2016 – Monday 2 January 2017. Appointments will be available as usual (10am – 4pm) from Tuesday 3 January 2017. Merry Christmas!
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