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….

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’…

Do you think you might want to do a PhD? If you’re an MA student, or a 3rd year undergraduate, and are interested in finding out more about doing a PhD, read on. Equally, keep reading if you’re in the earlier stages of your BA and want to know more about prospective postgraduate study! What…

Students in possession of Liverpool’s fantastic collections and resources, including bound volumes from C19 workhouse reports and town planners. Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 19/3/2015. Advancing into the Archives Workshop: Liverpool Records Office, 9 March 2015 Second-year undergraduates from the University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University were invited to…