HIV and AIDS activism in Bloomsbury and beyond during the 1980s and 1990s
If you happened to be walking on the shingle beach of Dungeness on 22 September 1991, you may have witnessed a curious event: a group of gay men dressed as nuns preforming a ceremony with the visual artist Derek Jarman, an alumnus of the Slade School of Fi
A. E. Housman at UCL: an austere Latin professor whom students adored
In the summer of 2024, I undertook a research fellowship with Generation UCL. I analysed two relevant oral history interviews and researched A. E. Housman’s connection to UCL (through the lens of student experience). This blog post aims to present the key findings from that research.
What were UCL students’ experiences during the Second World War evacuation? —— Revelations from student magazine New Phineas
The evacuation and the launch of New Phineas 
Beyond the Confines: What an Oral History Interview Inspired in Me
Taking part in Generation UCL: 200 years of student life in London as an EPSURF researcher is probably the most exciting memory I have from this summer. I want to use this blog as an opportunity to look back at this journey and, more importantly, to reflect on a specific oral history interview recording with a UCL alumnus. 
Generation UCL: 200 Years of Student Life – a multi-disciplinary research experience
My research fellowship on Generation UCL: 200 Years of Student Life in London in the summer of 2024 was incredibly fruitful. I gained interesting insights into the past international student life at UCL by accessing the oral history archive and got a taste of doing research in the field of education and history. 
Nightclubs, Ecstasy and Kiss FM: London Life in the 1990s
“I was so lucky to be in the right place at the right time...”
Tracing the experience of international Chinese students at University College London, 1939 to 1975 - My Undergraduate Dissertation
Background
Valuing Students’ Unions Archives and Records – The Shift to Digital
Students’ unions occupy a crucial position within UK higher education, having existed in some capacity since the middle of the 19th century.
Telling New Stories: Reflections on Creating a Revised UCL Tour
Over the 2023/24 academic year, I conducted research for an updated campus history tour as part of the wider Generation UCL project, funded by UCL Student Success Fund and UCL's 
A History of Anti-Apartheid Student Activism at UCL
For the first half of 2024, UCL students have been organising demonstrations against Israel’s attacks on Gaza. In May 2024, they joined university students across the world in establishing an encampment on the Main Quad led by the society Students for Justice in Palestine.
Where do we think we are? Revising UCL’s history walking tour
On 12 June the Generation UCL project presented a revised and updated history walking tour of UCL’s Bloomsbury campus. Funded by two UCL EDI funds Student Success Fund and 
Student residences over time: Generation UCL exhibition profiled in Portico magazine
The exhibition Generation UCL: Two Hundred Years of Student Life in London has now been open in UCL’s Octagon gallery since September 2023 and runs until December 2024.
UCL’s Student Ephemera collection
The Student Ephemera collection is a curated collection of manuscripts, publications, artwork, photographs, and objects, relating to the lives of UCL students, the Student Union, and members of UCL staff. The material dates from 1828 to 2002.
Christmas in the Cloisters: Students and the invention of tradition at UCL before 1914
Recent years have seen new festive traditions taking shape at UCL.
Students' Union UCL's 130th birthday party, a book launch, and the opening of the Generation UCL exhibition
Wednesday 18th October was a big day. Students’ Union UCL hosted a reception in the Wilkins Building to mark its 130th birthday.
Saluting Our UCL Sisters: Elsa Goveia and Altheia Jones-Lecointe
Since 1987, the United Kingdom has formally celebrated Black History Month each October.
200 years of UCL student data part 2: Global patterns of student mobility
As I outlined in an earlier blog, my summer internship involved recording and visualizing UCL student data transcribed from Annual Reports and 
There is no university without its students
A new exhibition on the Bloomsbury Campus considers UCL’s almost 200-year history through its students‘There is no university without its students.’This is the concept at the
Touring UCL’s Diverse History
I am a postgraduate student studying Public History at UCL.
200 years of UCL student data: My experience of a summer research project
About the projectThis summer I was lucky to be partially involved in the Generation UCL research through the opportunity an Education, Practice and Society Undergraduate Research Fellowship (EPSURF) offered me.