Strode History, Heritage and Archaeology

Name: Strode History, Heritage and Archaeology
Address: Street, BA160AB, GB
Telephone: +441458844400

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The heritage sector is important to leisure and tourism in the South West.

Our courses deliver relevant practitioner knowledge, skills and critical understanding of history, heritage and archaeology with emphasis on the local area. They should appeal to anyone with a general interest in the past, particularly the heritage of the South West. We have an active Employers’ Forum which participates fully in the planning and operation of the courses, ensuring that they are rel

evant and current. Our team includes staff who are practising researchers, published in their fields, including textbooks specifically written for the course

28/05/2015

Our BA (Hons) History, Heritage and Archaeology programme includes a module entitled ‘Legendary Britain’. This involves a study of how the legends of Robin Hood and King Arthur have developed over the centuries. On a trip to Cornwall recently we discovered Camelot, King Arthur’s Court, at Tintagel! Well, an early twentieth century recreation of it to be more precise…

28/05/2015

Our History, Heritage and Archaeology FdA and BA undergraduate students recently participated in a field trip to Bruges (it’s in Belgium…).

Several of them made the most of brilliant sunshine to take a canal trip around and through historic Bruges. In visits to impressive churches and museums they were able to view medieval masterpieces by Hieronymous Bosch, Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling, plus a rare sculpture outside Italy by Michaelangelo (Madonna and Child). For some students one highlight was the rare chance to witness the veneration of a medieval holy relic and to see it up close: this is the phial purportedly containing the Holy Blood of Christ, brought back from the Second Crusade in the mid-twelfth century. Another highlight was the fifteenth-century Jerusalem Church, with its striking and macabre altar of skulls and bones. The day was topped of by some sampling of Belgian beers and cuisine. Meanwhile other students elected to tour the cemeteries and museums of the Ypres battlefields.

12/05/2015

To mark the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta in 2015, Strode College’s History, Heritage and Archaeology BA (Hons) degree programme hosted a major public conference on King John and Magna Carta.

The conference brought together leading experts from universities and the heritage sector to present on a range of topics including: the personality of King John and the road to Magna Carta; King John’s hunting lodges, warfare, arms and armour (including a live demonstration of the step-by-step armouring of a 13th century knight in full battle dress); the remarkable Eleanor of Aquitaine; John’s teenaged bride Isabella of Angoulême; and his troubled relations with the Church which led to his excommunication.

Sean McGlynn, who organised the conference, is one of the country’s leading King John scholars. He has written widely on King John; contributes regularly at events and in the media; and he lectures on King John for the Strode College BA (Hons) History, Heritage and Archaeology degree (in partnership with Plymouth University).History, Heritage and Archaeology Degree student Andrew Howart in full 13th century knight battle dress, with Andy Pickering, Course Manager, and Sean McGlynn, lecturer and conference organiser.

He said: “This was a rare opportunity for people in the Southwest to attend a local conference to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta in 2015. Celebrations are being organised across the country and worldwide on a massive scale, so it is fitting that the Southwest – King John’s stronghold during the dramatic Magna Carta Civil War – should also mark the occasion with this conference. We had an impressive range of leading experts delivering lively presentations on fascinating topics to an audience who were interested in learning more about the controversial figure of John, arguably England’s most notorious king.

“Strode College is well qualified to host such a high-profile event as we teach about King John on our degree course and our lecturers have an impressive publication record on the monarch. The College is also academic advisor to Salisbury Cathedral which holds one of the four surviving copies of Magna Carta from 1215.”

12/05/2015

First year History, Heritage and Archaeology degree students at Strode College are engaged in an advisory capacity regarding the ongoing £2.3 million redevelopment project at Glastonbury’s Rural Life Museum. Recently they went on-site to consider the validity of using its magnificent fourteenth century tithe barn as a venue for events such as wedding receptions. The report they will produce will both serve as an assignment for internal assessment purposes as well as a practical document for the future management of the site by the South West Heritage Trust.

Photograph by Martin Day showing from left Andy Pickering (HHA Programme Manager), Megan Hurrell, Matt Timmins, Alex Horley, Ed Dennis, Cameron Fewell

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