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Jacqui Turner – what does it mean to be working class?
10/17/2025 11:03 AM

As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ. Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University in the 1890s Oxford Extension movement and coming right up to date with policy recommendations […]

Brooke Harding on the workings of becoming a first-generation student 
10/15/2025 11:17 AM

As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ. Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University in the 1890s Oxford Extension movement and coming right up to date with policy recommendations […]

David Stack on Going to University 
10/13/2025 11:03 AM

As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ.  Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University in the 1890s Oxford Extension movement and coming right up to date with policy recommendations […]

Britain’s Atomic Bombs: Operation Grapple
9/29/2025 1:59 PM

In light of recent news coverage, our MA student, Hannah Grimshaw, reflects on her grandfather’s experiences of atomic testing on Christmas Island. Operation Grapple was a series of nine British hydrogen and atomic bomb tests that took place on Christmas Island over 1957 and 1958. Veterans there during the tests have only recently received any […]

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