Edith Smith: The first Women Police and close connections to Grantham
By Olivia Hennessy, BA History, Level 1 To celebrate Women’s History Month, I would like to discuss a historic woman figure with a closer to home connection. Grantham...
November 29th, 2021
November 29th, 2021
A Silent “Vocal” Resistance – A Close Analysis on Panos Terlemezian’s A Shepard from Lori (1905)
By Deborah Ng, BA Art History, Level 3 (This passage was submitted as an assignment for my university course module “The Armenians: Crafting a Community in Dispersion” (2020-2021)....
April 16th, 2021
Worker, Strike Activist and Trade Union Representative: Sarah Chapman and The Match-Women’s Strike
By Jem Knight, BA History, Level 2 If you know a little about the new trade unionism movement of the late nineteenth century and the Match-women’s strike of...
March 1st, 2021
LGBTQ+ History Month – ‘Body, mind and spirit’: Body
By Olivia Hennessy, BA History, Level 1 LGBTQ+ History month’s theme for this year is ‘Body, mind, and spirit’. This month, in February, was founded first in the...
February 25th, 2021
Michael Dillon: Aristocrat, Scholar, Physician, Monk and Man
By Jem Knight, BA History, Level 2 I had only recently come out as transgender when I ventured into Gay’s the Word bookshop in London for the first...
January 22nd, 2021
Music and History: Alan Bush and the Jarrow Hunger March
By Jem Knight, BA History, Level 2 Music helps to ground us in the study of history, it gives us cultural context to what was occurring at...
January 18th, 2021
Holocaust Memorial Day: ‘Be the Light in the Darkness’
By Olivia Hennessy, BA History, Level 1 ‘We will continue to do our bit for as long as we can, secure in the knowledge that others will continue...
January 6th, 2021
Where Did All the Romans Go?
By Owen Chandler MA History One summer while walking along Hadrian’s wall and visiting the numerous museums in Northumberland I was marvelling at the structures and...
January 6th, 2021
Locked within an animation: The representation of Pocahontas
By Gemma McLean-Carr Second-Year History Student Johann Friedrich Engel Pocahontas, c.1921. The life of Pocahontas (born Matoaka) has been frequently replicated and represented in literature, art and...
November 20th, 2020
900 Years on from the Sinking of the White Ship
By Victoria Barlow, History, Level 3 As a history undergraduate student, I’m taught that it’s not good practice to question ‘what if this had happened instead’. The possibilities...
