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...
February 25th, 2021
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...
October 22nd, 2020
Ut Pictura Poesis: An evening of Poetry, Art and Art History
Hosted by the School of History and Heritage The celebration of Black History Month 2020, at the University of Lincoln (UK), on 2 October, was a...
May 30th, 2020
Confronting collecting histories
Nigerian deity statuettes at The Collection, Lincoln. By Emma Fox, History, Level 3 Many objects that are displayed in Britain’s museums today were obtained during the...
May 24th, 2020
Social Distancing but Not Quite
A Reflection Upon Our Own Social History By Samantha Ann Rose Brinded MA Postgraduate On Friday 08 May 2020, the country celebrated VE Day, as it has...
May 16th, 2020
History in the digital age
Rethinking Museums in the 21st century By Gemma McLean-Carr Increased emphasis is being placed on digitalisation in the 21st century due to globalisation and expanding technological influence....
