I attended the Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy) teaching and learning conference, in Birmingham, for the first time this year Advance HE TL Conference 2018. Previous to this my experience of conferences was of academic history ones. Academics sometimes get a little bit too immersed in their own institutions. It seemed like a good idea… […]
July 2022
Study and Research – Page 2 – HISTORY AT NORTHAMPTON
On 12 May every year the Mass Observation Project asks people living in Britain to keep a diary and submit it for posterity. They are building up a wonderful social history archive. Lecturer Rachel Moss has documented hers on her blog here. Meanwhile, our undergraduate student Ursula Watkins submitted the following: My Day 12th May… […]
Blog – Page 4 – HISTORY AT NORTHAMPTON
To coincide with International Women’s Day (and Women’s History Month in the UK) this blog focuses on some of the female historians who have inspired my own research into women and gender in early modern England. There were loads of women historians I could have blogged about, but the three I’ve chosen are those whose… […]
Black History – Page 2 – HISTORY AT NORTHAMPTON
The next in our continuing series of blogs inspired by the BLM movement from students and staff is from Catriona, who has just completed her second year of study with us. As another middle aged, middle class white person, I also wondered what contribution I could make to the quest for change, the need for… […]