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The Special Collections and Archives will be closed for the Christmas holiday from Thursday 20th December (3pm) to Tuesday 1st January inclusive. During the first week of January the service will be open for appointments: Wednesday 2nd January: 9am –…
Our Remembrance display marking 100 years since the end of the First World War is at Francis Close Hall Chapel until Friday 9 November. Staff and alumni from the University have crocheted 264 poppies, one for each of our alumni…
University of Gloucestershire Public Lecture Series Friday 5 October 2018, 6pm, TC001, Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ Free entry. Please register via Following an introduction to the work of the Friends of the Dymock Poets around the…
Special Collections and Archives at the university has secured important letters written by the famous American poet Robert Frost for their Dymock Poets Special Collection. The university, with the aid of grants from Friends of the National Libraries and Friends…
The Special Collections and Archives have teamed up with the Friends of the Dymock Poets to organise a cataloguing group to help access some of our Dymock Poets material in more detail. Meeting once a month, the aim of the…
The Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive was donated to the Special Collections and Archives in November 2017. It includes over 80,000 photographic images and negatives from the ITN corporate press archive, documenting national and international news. It is a…
The Special Collections and Archives will be open during the following days of the Easter break: Monday 26 March 9am – 5pm Tuesday 27 March 9am – 5pm Wednesday 28 March – Closed Thursday 29 March – Closed Good Friday…
There are currently three new internship opportunities in the Special Collections and Archives. University of Gloucestershire students can apply for these via the Future Plan portal: Independent Television News (ITN) Stills Archive Internship x2 The ITN Stills Archive came to…
During the Christmas holidays I had the pleasure of collecting a major donation of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson material from Mr John Chirgwin. Gibson is one of the Dymock Poets and hails from Hexham in Northumberland, where fate had it I…