Kerry Love is one of our wonderful PhD students! She has written a blog for us about her experiences in a school classroom.  To me, the desire to teach is a basic extension of having passion for your subject. As an undergraduate, one of the most common career goal assumptions you’ll be faced with is… […]

This blog is based on the presentation given on 8 November 2018, as part of the History at Northampton Research Seminars series at the University of Northampton. It explores the origins of perinatal (premature baby) care in the UK from 1947 to 1965, using recently available archival material for Northampton, made possible through the generosity of… […]

Kerry Love is one of our wonderful PhD students! She has written a blog for us about her experiences in a school classroom.  To me, the desire to teach is a basic extension of having passion for your subject. As an undergraduate, one of the most common career goal assumptions you’ll be faced with is… […]

The History team at Northampton and the East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning in HE is pleased to announce that booking is open for our upcoming inspiring workshop, ‘Managing Students in Distress’. Working with trainers from the UK Academic Advising and Tutoring, this one-day interactive event will look at different aspects of supporting […]

Searchlight archivist and PhD student Dan Jones explains the role of the archive in social impact on the wider community. Searchlight Archive shelves, photo by the author This summer the Searchlight Archive celebrated 7 years since it opened to researchers in July of 2013. Since its creation I have been it’s only archivist and have […]

On the 15th and 16th of April Rachel Moss and Mark Rothery, both of the History department, hosted an online conference exploring letters in history, as primary sources and as themes for research. Over 100 delegates registered and attended the conference, it was very successful and enjoyable, we all learnt a lot! The delegates were… […]

Collision report: Bletchley Park, Folklore, and Academic History Jim Beach reveals Army reporting on the local political situation in 1919. Over the past year I have been rummaging through some not-very-exciting government documents.  But for an intelligence historian, that’s pretty much par for the course. As I say to students who take my third-year module, […]

We are launching a new module in the History degree programme at Northampton this year: HIS1028 ‘United States: War and Society, 1610-2020’. It is taught by four lecturers who each take a chronological chunk and, as an eighteenth-century historian, I am teaching the second section on the American Revolution. Race is a key theme in […]

This event, originally intended to be held in the spring, is now slated for November (exact date TBC) and so we are renewing the CFP for a 21 September deadline. We are looking for contributions to a workshop exploring how people (archivists, teachers, researchers etc) are using radical and activist collections in educational, public history… […]

This blog post is by Amber Millard, submitted last year as a coursework assignment for the module The Wars of the Roses. Now it’s marked and deanonymised we can share it with you! The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower,painted by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878. One of the most debated topics in… […]

In my last post I promised to give you some examples of interesting medieval women, whose experiences pushed beyond the misogynistic limitations they were theoretically subject to in a patriarchal society. As I’m a specialist in the fifteenth century, and I teach a third year undergraduate module on the Wars of the Roses, I thought… […]

Dominic Cummings has been in the news lately, you may have noticed. He drove, whilst infected with COVID-19, from Islington to County Durham, with his family. He then took them on a tour of County Durham, whilst infected, and after having been discovered defended his actions, supported by the PM and the government he advises…. […]

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, […]

Our second year students taking the Dissertation Research Skills module were given an assignment to write a 500-word blog post that would serve as a  how-to guide for using a particular online archive or library catalogue. With the students’ permission, we’ll share some of the best posts here. This one is by Tom, who writes… […]