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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...