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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…
University Archive reference D464/1/4 Our item this month is a student scrapbook from the University Archive. Claude Blogg (nicknamed “Tiger”) was a student at St Paul’s College (now FCH campus) from 1922 – 1924 where he would have trained to…
The end of the Spring Term is traditionally a time when students have a lot of deadlines and assignments to hand in. Today, the majority of essays are word processed and conform to set editorial conventions. In the University Archive…
February 2012 saw the annual Cheltenham Folk Festival take place at venues across the town. The University Archives and Special Collections hold various materials on folk-related themes, including this month’s item which is a book on Legends, Tales and Songs…
In amongst all the draft poems, correspondence and papers of the U.A. Fanthorpe can be found many items that at first wouldn’t seem relevant to a collection of papers belonging to a poet. On closer examination however, each item has…
The festive season was anticipated and regaled as much by past students as it is today. Our item this time is an edition of “The Chelt” magazine from Christmas 1938. “The Chelt” magazines were produced by students from 1895 to…
As November is traditionally a month of remembrance, our item this month is from a selection of material we hold relating to the wartime experiences of staff and students. Pictured is the identity bracelet worn throughout World War II by…