9 October 2013
Gloucestershire Local History Association are hosting their first Local History Day on Saturday 12th October 2013 from 10.30am – 4.30pm at Pate’s Grammar School, Princess Elizabeth Way, Cheltenham. Admission is £5 including refreshments. The day will feature Local…
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This week all of our campuses and staff have been extremely busy welcoming our new students to university, and none more so than our fantastic estates staff, caretakers and cleaners, who undertake a vast range of work which…
Read more9 July 2013
The Archive Room will be open on Saturday 20th July, 10am to 4pm, for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society’s Open Library Day.The event is part of the Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of Archaeology – an annual…
Read more9 July 2013
Do you ever get stuck for ideas of what to cook for tea? Are you sick of having the same old meals every week and want to try something different? Then why not take some inspiration from recipe…
Read more10 June 2013
On 13th June the University Archives and Special Collections are hosting the St Paul’s Practising School Old Boys’ Association reunion. This year there will be a special memorial service in the Chapel dedicating the St Paul’s College Practising…
Read more23 May 2013
This month’s item is a christening certificate with a difference. One of the old initiation traditions of St Paul’s students was to assemble a “Jury” of senior students to assign nicknames to the unsuspecting first years. University…
Read more26 April 2013
This month our slightly belated item is a collection of student TV production photographs from the 1990s. Archive Reference C/11/00/6 The Media School at the University of Gloucestershire houses some of our most popular courses, including…
Read more7 March 2013
Did you know that today is World Book Day? A celebration of books and reading across the world. I remember as a child receiving book tokens through school, a practice that still happens today. More information on World…
Read more6 March 2013
This month the University of Gloucestershire is hosting exhibitions and events as part of the Impress International Printmaking Festival 2013. To correspond with this our archive item this month is a collection of material from the Tarsus…
Read more6 February 2013
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching so it seemed fitting to present a Valentine’s message written in 1896 as this month’s item from the University Archive Collection. Manuscript Chelt 1895-1896 UA34/1/27 A transcription of the letter is below….
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