February 2023

This week we sharing a series of personal  blog posts from staff and students reacting to the killing of George Floyd and the protests here and around the world. Today’s is from Charlotte, who has just completed her second year of study for a degree in History at the University of Northampton.  Here are some of… […]

At the University of Northampton we use all kinds of interesting methods to assess our students! This piece of work by Nicole Brack was submitted as part of last year’s assessments for the Wars of the Roses module, and Nicole has given permission for us to share it. The relationship between Henry VII and Elizabeth… […]

On 22 April 2022 the Searchlight Archive Research Group hosted a free online conference for Early Career Researchers (ECR) and Postgraduate Researchers (PGR). Entitled ‘Post-war Anti-Fascism, the Radical Right and the Far Right: Emotion, Culture and Identity’ it brought together MA students, PhD students and ECRs from the UK and Europe to share their research… […]

When I finally switched off from a day of online meetings on Wednesday I thought I’d relax by watching some gentle TV. Then a prompt from a friend on social media made me switch over to a new channel, the BBC at first and then CNN. Within moments I was hooked in to the drama… […]

Getty Images: Man dressed as a ” Viking” storms the US Capitol While the world reels from the attempt by right-wing insurrectionists to storm the US Capitol, I’d like to draw the attention of my students studying Medieval Chivalry and its Afterlives to this striking image of a man dressed as a pseudo-Viking. Jake Angeli,… […]

Murder Maps, a “cartographic exposition of the 19th century’s most dramatic and intriguing murders from the world’s most crime-ridden cities and regions”, has just been published by Thames & Hudson. Clearly we need to have the full details of those individuals who have today been deported from the UK to Jamaica. However, the Home Office […]

This report is by Joseph Price, one of our first year undergraduate students.  35 years ago, on the 29th June 1985, London’s gay pride parade received some very unlikely supporters who saw it their duty to show their support for a community who had helped them survive during tumultuous times. The supporters were bus loads… […]

A photomontage of fireworks from a Guy Fawkes Night display at Roundwood Park in Harlesden, London. Credit: Billy Hicks, under Creative Commons licence Senior lecturer Caroline Nielsen investigates the history of Bonfire Night: Most people in England are probably familiar with this rhyme: ‘Remember, Remember the 5th of November Gunpowder, treason and plot I see […]

This week we sharing a series of personal  blog posts from staff and students reacting to the killing of George Floyd and the protests here and around the world. Today’s is from Charlotte, who has just completed her second year of study for a degree in History at the University of Northampton.  Here are some of… […]

We’ve been posting lockdown recipes here on the blog over the past few weeks, because staying nourished during this stressful time is important. Plus cooking is fun and can be stress-relieving! We’ve had some great recipes here already from students and staff, but today we have a special treat – a prizewinning recipe from our… […]

Getty Images: Man dressed as a ” Viking” storms the US Capitol While the world reels from the attempt by right-wing insurrectionists to storm the US Capitol, I’d like to draw the attention of my students studying Medieval Chivalry and its Afterlives to this striking image of a man dressed as a pseudo-Viking. Jake Angeli,… […]

Today’s blog is written by Charlotte who has just successfully completed her second year studying History at the University of Northampton.  I have been reflecting about my university experience a lot recently as I am entering my final year as an undergraduate history student at the University of Northampton. I have seen a lot of… […]

  On Monday this week I removed my second-year class on crime and punishment from the confines of a Waterside campus classroom (lovely as they are) and transported it to a real life courthouse in the centre of Northampton. Northampton’s Sessions House was built after the fire that destroyed much of the town in 1675…. […]

For several years now I’ve been putting undergraduates on trial. Before you get excited I only mean as an exercise in understanding the criminal trial in the past, I don’t lock them up or send them to Botany Bay! Each year I set an assessment which involves groups of 2nd year History and Criminology students… […]