By Kylie Lloyd, MA Conservation of Cultural Heritage This summer preparations began for the Wakefield Museums & Castles partial store move, which meant dusting and packing objects that are...
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...
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...
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...
