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Today is National Sporting Heritage Day, and by coinsidence Special Collections and Archives staff have been researching photographs of our sports teams from the First World War era for our Students’ Union. Here are some of the images we’ve come…
With the exciting launch of our new fashion courses BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Fashion and Textiles (Strategic Alliance FdA), our item of the month focuses on historic fashion course provision by our predecessor colleges. The Special Collections and Archives…
The Old Cheltenham Twitter account (@Old_Cheltenham) recently shared this piece of film footage showing Cheltenham School of Arts and Crafts students in 1925. They can be seen re-enacting scenes from Noah’s Ark dressed in fabulous animal costumes. https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/0x4dK6Ti0Wg&source=uds The School went on to…
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…