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This delightful little album, recently donated to the University Archives, contains memories, photos, poems, sketches and notes from friends and well-wishers. It was started by J E Pooley in 1901, when he attended St Paul’s College, and it goes up…
David Bryant studied to become a teacher at St Paul’s College, (a predecessor college of the University of Gloucestershire), and he appears on the St Paul’s student register for September 1953 – June1955 He is acknowledged as the ‘greatest bowler…
The university’s Archives were approached by a lady in Australia, who wanted to know if we held in our collections, any records of the early days of the colleges. She had been told that her Great, Great, Great Grandparents studied…
The Artists’ Books Collection was established in 1998 following the exhibition Books As Art held at Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Town Hall and the Pittville Campus of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education (a predecessor college of the University…
Artist Peter Edwards (b.1955) will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire in November 2021. Peter is a member of our alumni, having studied a BA Hons at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (Pittville Campus) 1975…
Update: 24th February 2022 The Special Collections and Archives is open to University of Gloucestershire students, staff and members of the public. Following the lifting of COVID restrictions in England, we’re advising the guidance below in line with University policy:…
Article produced by Simona Dlugošová, University of Gloucestershire archive volunteer. This blog post is written as a response to my experience working with a selection of records produced by the Local Heritage Initiative (LHI). In the following text, I will…
The University of Gloucestershire Special Collections & Archive announcing an Artist Residency. When Harold Macmillian was asked for the most likely scenario that could plunge the Government of course, he famously did not say ‘Events dear boy events’. This phrase…
The Special Collections and Archives will be close for the Christmas break on Friday 13 December 2019 at 5pm. The service will re-open on Thursday 2 January 2020 at 9am. If you’d like to visit the Special Collections and Archives…