Online event: Friday 9th June 10am-3pm To join the event, please email caroline.nielsen@northampton.ac.uk Timings (approx)Programme10amWelcome to the EventPanel 1: Self and Identity10:05- 11:30amFrancesca Benson (University of Derby) The Sacred and the Profane: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Gravestones in Clifton Campville, Staffordshire Lizzy Reynolds (University of Lincoln) The power of Understanding Why: Exploring the Importance of Contextualizing... Continue Reading →
Supporting Students, Supporting Staff
CPD Training Event at the University of Northampton in partnership with UKAT UK Academic Advising and Tutoring! 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... Continue Reading →
How to Locate and Access Distant Sources for Your History Dissertation
Stuck on your undergraduate History Dissertation? Help is at Hand! This blog post is one in a series dealing with the most commonly issues faced by students researching and writing their final year History dissertation or thesis. Author: Caroline Nielsen, Programme Leader for BA History at the University of Northampton. "Most of my planned primary... Continue Reading →
How to Find Your Undergraduate History Dissertation Topic
Stuck on your History dissertation? Help is at hand! This blog post is one in a series dealing with the most commonly issues faced by students researching and writing their final year History dissertation or thesis. Author: Caroline Nielsen, Programme Leader for BA History at the University of Northampton. This blog post deals with a... Continue Reading →
Stuck on Your History Dissertation? Help is at Hand!
Don't know where to start with your undergraduate History dissertation? This blog post series by Dr Caroline Nielsen will go through commonly asked questions and recurring issues faced by students researching and writing their final year History dissertation. Help! “Help, I don’t know what to do for my dissertation. I’m interested in loads of areas... Continue Reading →
Glimpses into Others’ Lives at the British Museum
History is all about stories. The stories we tell ourselves about the past. The stories we tell ourselves about the past, about our communities, about ourselves. The British Museum’s vast and world-famous collections hold multiple examples of stories around the globe. Some of these stories are easily accessible to us via the objects. Others are... Continue Reading →
Stepping Out From #BehindtheLens: Commemorating and Celebrating LGBTQ+ Lives @UON
February 2023 is UK LGBTQ+ History Month! UON Library Wellbeing Collection. Thanks to Jefferson Lake, Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Sports Journalism at UON, for the photo! UON is celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month through a series of inclusive events throughout February for both students and staff. The theme for this year's festival is #BehindtheLens, celebrating the... Continue Reading →
Calling all East Midlands History Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers: We Need You!
Being a postgraduate researcher in History can be challenging, especially when preparing to enter the university or college classroom for the first time or when teaching new materials or potentially sensitive topics. We want to hear from you! We want to help! The East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning (EMC) is a professional... Continue Reading →
Responding to the Future: Future Directions in History Degrees and the East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning – Forum and Discussion Event
Online Event, 14th September 2022 We need your views and ideas! We’re delighted to announce that Northampton is the new host of the East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning in HE! The East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning (EMC) is a professional development network of History researchers and academics. The Centre... Continue Reading →
Researching Through Objects: The North-East Coast Exhibitions
What can we learn about yourselves, and our relationship with History, by studying throw-away souvenir tourist items? East Coast Industries (poster) by Frank Henry Mason is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 How do we approach the question of historical leisure experiences and domestic consumer items which we now find at best insignificant, or at worst deeply... Continue Reading →
HISTORY AT NORTHAMPTON 