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With Armistice Day approaching, the focus this month is on a collection of documents deposited by Miss Mayer, the niece of Gertrude Mayer, who was a student at St. Mary’s College from 1906 to 1908. Part of D467 – Miss…
Local Councillor Mike Skinner (LD, St Marks, St Pauls and St Peters, Cheltenham) recently contacted the University Archive to enquire about a donation of an ornate New Testament dating from 1841 that he kindly donated to the institution back…
This month sees the University taking part in national Heritage Open Days for the first time on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th September. The Chapel, Quad building and Archives Room will be open as part of the festival which celebrates…
Staff in the University Archives and Special Collections were deeply saddened to hear about the death of Ron Prewer, Chair of the Practising School Old Boys’ Association, earlier this month. Ron was a frequent visitor to the archives and had…
To coincide with the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (BGAS) Library open day on Saturday 21st July, our item this month is a 300 year old first edition of Sir Robert Atkyns’s The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, published…
Manuscript Chelt 1951-1953 UA34/1/60 On Friday 22nd June, the University will hold a special Jubilee event with the theme of celebrating “60”. There will be various exhibitors at Park campus from throughout Gloucestershire showing a range of material covering the…
Sir Robert Atkyns’s ‘The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire (1712) The University Archives and Special Collections will be holding an open day for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (BGAS) Library on Saturday 21st July, 10am – 4pm. We…
On 24th May the St Paul’s Practising School Old Boys’ Association held their annual reunion in the Archive Room. The Practising School was located in what are now the Clegg and Bodley buildings at FCH, and local boys were educated…
A new University Archives and Special Collections display on local history resources is now up in the Crush Hall at FCH. On show is a selection of the material researchers can use to aid research into local history, whether in…