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Summer Updates
While the summer is a time of much needed rest and recuperation, for academics it is also a time for research. As you’ll see in the updates from each member of staff below, staff in History team have been busy…
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Erin Peters
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New Academic Year and New Colleagues
Welcome new and welcome back returning students! We are looking forward to kicking off the new academic year with you all. There is lots going on already via City Voices at the Gloucester History Festival with our student exhibitions on…
Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World
I am so excited to be able to share with you the news of my forthcoming publication. Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World is a co-edited collection of essays that I have been working on with Prof Cynthia…
Alumni Stories: Meg Gard
This series of posts looks at what our former students do after they graduate in History at the University of Gloucestershire. It demonstrates the various types of employment and further study they can go into. It provides useful guides for…
Historians in Lockdown (Part Two)
This is the second of two posts by our academic staff who share their experiences of working from home and adapting to the ‘new normal’ since the start of the lockdown. This post sees contributions from early modernist Erin Peters,…
Postgraduate Profile: Mike Barnes
This post comes from MA by Research student Mike Barnes. Research is a passion, a calling, almost. There is sheer satisfaction in the chase, which I have been pursuing now for over thirty years. It started when I lived…
Alumni Stories: Abigail Sparkes
This series of posts looks at what our former students do after they graduate in History at the University of Gloucestershire. It demonstrates the various types of employment and further study they can go into. It provides useful guides for…
The Battle of Tewkesbury: 360° interpretative resource heritage trail
2021 marks the 550th anniversary of the Battle of Tewkesbury. As this date approaches, we have been thinking about the cultural spaces made for commemorating episodes of past conflicts in a local history context. Do these events, separated from us…
Postgraduate Profiles: John Harrison – How ‘Godly’ was Gloucester?
This post comes from MA by Research student John Harrison, who is being supervised by Dr Erin Peters. Most major studies on the English Revolution and English Civil War mention Gloucester in some capacity. Some, such as John Morrill’s Essays…