Dr Oliver Bast (back row) and students at the National Archives. Image courtesy of Dr Bast. On the morning of Friday 11th March, ten of us taking the Level 3 History course ‘Oil Wars? Armed Conflict, War and Foreign Power Intervention in the Persian Gulf (1898-1991)’ took a field trip to London. We were accompanied by…
Month: November 2016
The Perils and Promises of Being a Mature Student
Editor’s Note: This blog has been re-posted by kind permission of Robin Trenbath; for more from Robin you can follow his blog here and read his twitter feed @rjtrenbath Many mature students have had unusual relationships with education – and I am certainly one of them. When I left school at 16 I gleefully burned my…
Why do a Joint Honours degree at Manchester? Alumna Elkie Myers reflects on studying Politics and Modern History
Elkie Myers BA Politics and Modern History (2012-2015) I graduated in July 2015 after completing my BA in Politics and Modern History. My course was co-ordinated by the History department in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, but was essentially a two-school course, with Politics lectures run by the School of Social Sciences….
Advancing into the Archive Workshop: Our undergraduates discover hidden treasures at Liverpool Records Office!
A few years ago, during one of my early posts as Stipendiary Lecturer in History at the University of Oxford, I was sat in a supervision meeting with a third-year dissertation student and began to chat with them about starting to conduct their own archival research. As I began excitedly recounting my own ‘Eureka moments’…
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