Adam Coleman
“I was lucky’, said 21-year-old art student Jill Smith in 1963 in the Gloucester Citizen, “I couldn’t have done it on my own.” The it that Jill was referring to was a vast mural she made with four colleagues for the entrance hall at the newest addition to Gloucester’s skyline: Clapham Court. An abstract design […]
Kelly Burris & Tom Gullick
For the last few years, History students from the University of Gloucestershire have been contributing to the yearly Gloucester History Festival by producing exhibitions on local history as part of the Cotswold Centre for History and Heritage. They have conducted research on various aspects of Gloucestershire’s rich, varied and complex past. This past year, our collaboration […]
Marsha O’Mahony
In January 2022 I was commissioned by the Cathedral Quarter to deliver a reminiscence/digital archive project, based on the lives of those who had lived, worked, played, worshipped, shopped – or any other activity – on Westgate Street. We called it simply, ‘Westgate Stories’. I was delighted to deliver the project on a street I […]
Clare Bebbington
Clare Bebbington This is a tale of two cinemas. And like all good (hi)stories, it starts with a question. Not just what happened when, or even why. Not just the big questions of staple historiographical fare: who is telling the (hi)story and why are they telling it? It isn’t even the question that has become […]
