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The University of Gloucestershire will be taking part in this year’s Heritage Open Days event. Special Collections and Archives staff will be hosting tours of our historic Francis Close Hall campus on Friday 12th September, on the…
You can now donate to the Friends of the Special Collections and Archives (FoSCA) online via our BT mydonate page. The Friends of the Special Collections and Archives raise funds for archive equipment, conservation work and the purchase of special collections…
Cheltenham Training College Football Team 1894 (Archive Reference UA36/7/2) In a tribute to the start of the football season next weekend our item of the month is a photograph of the Cheltenham Training College football team from 1894. Taken outside…
As part of their biennial reunion, a number of ex – students descended on Francis Close Hall campus archive collection with the purpose of reminiscing about their younger years and re – joining with old (but not forgotten) friends. During…
A member of staff based at Dunholme Villa, Park campus recently contacted the Special Collections and Archives after receiving a visit from a representative of the Cotswold Branch of the Orders and Medals Research Society. The Society has recently undertaken a project…
“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…
There will be a revision of our opening hours from Monday 28th April 2014 The University Archives and Special Collections will be open for students and staff to pop in or make an appointment Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm.…
Murder in the Archives! This month’s archive item is a pamphlet detailing the sensational trail of Mary Reed, accused of poisoning her husband William on 17 April 1794. BGAS Library – Gloucestershire Pamphlets The couple lived in Berkeley, south…