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Neil has written before about how useful it can be to read one of the newspapers belonging to the ‘quality press’. To emphasise the point, there were a number of book reviews in the weekend papers which should be of…
By Christian O’Connell: This weekend I caught this BBC documentary on the 1970s in Britian. Dominic Sandbrook, author of White Heat: a history of Britain in the Swinging Sixties (2006) and State of Emergency: The way we were, Britain 1970-74…
One of the things I most like about Cheltenham is the Literature Festival, which always attracts many world-famous writers – and often some notorious historians. Whatever your thoughts are on the role of history in the media and so-called ‘TV…
I promised to keep an eye on the use of history in the media on this blog, and I thought it might be worth extending beyond my own ‘beat’ of early modern history. I didn’t have to go too far…
We’re holding an open day next Saturday, the 12th October. The Open Day will be held at the newly refurbished Francis Close Hall, where all of our history staff and students are based, from 10am until 2.45pm, and we’ll be on-hand…
Guest Post from Chris Payne: Welcome to the University of Gloucestershire! We hope you have enjoyed your summer and fresher’s week (or what is left of it). Erika Mellor and I would like to take this moment to invite all of…
The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-Upon-Avon is a little oasis for researchers and postgraduate students: though it’s affiliated with the University of Birmingham, it’s a long way from the main campus – and that makes it a quiet place to sit,…
History is hot property: it’s on TV and in the news constantly, and even where the focus might not be rigorously academic it’s important to step out of the ivory tower and both understand how history inspires and inform how…
We welcomed our new History undergraduates last week with several days of student induction activities. The students engaged in a wide-ranging historical investigation of Cheltenham’s past and present – which ended, as these things do, in a pub quiz! Third…