Black History Month Series: Olive Morris

By Olivia Hennessy, BA History, Level 2 Black History is important throughout and after October. Sharing stories of those who have been forgotten is vital; their history should...

Student Equality Diversity and Inclusivity Committee

SEDIC stands for Student Equality Diversity and Inclusivity Committee. We’re a student-run committee with student members from across the School of History and Heritage! SEDIC was set up...

‘La Caixa’ Fellowship: Queens’ Households in Thirteenth-Century England and Iberia

by Paula Del Val ValesMPhil/PhD History Student ‘How does studying thirteenth-century queens’ households benefit society?’ This was the final question I was asked during the interview process of...

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...

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)....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...