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...

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...