University Archive

With the exciting launch of our new fashion courses BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Fashion and Textiles (Strategic Alliance FdA), our item of the month focuses on historic fashion course provision by our predecessor colleges. The Special Collections and Archives…

“A Novel Race” (UA34/1/26)   Archive article of the month – June 2014 Whilst working as an intern at the University of Gloucestershire’s archives, I found a very unique and entertaining article titled “A Novel Race”. Written in 1894-95, this…

We are firmly in the middle of the exam period, so this month’s item from the archive is a “mock” exam paper, written by St Paul’s College students in 1927. St Paul’s College mock entrance exam paper – 1927 (archive…

  UA34/1/24 Manuscript Chelt 1892-1893 p.42 If you are wondering how to improve your physical prowess in order to impress the object of your desires this Valentine’s Day then fear not! Tips on how to grow taller and “cultivate a…

Priory Students 1924 (archive reference D373/1) This month our item is a photograph of St Mary’s College students dressed for a Christmas party in 1924. They are referred to as “waitresses” on the back of the photograph, wearing “black sateen…

  I feel very lucky to be working as an intern for the Archives Department here at the University of Gloucestershire. As I was recording information from a St Paul’s Chelt from 1883, I came across this very comical piece.…

This week all of our campuses and staff have been extremely busy welcoming our new students to university, and none more so than our fantastic estates staff, caretakers and cleaners, who undertake a vast range of work which has made…

Do you ever get stuck for ideas of what to cook for tea? Are you sick of having the same old meals every week and want to try something different? Then why not take some inspiration from recipe books found…