A Year in the DTH Marketing Project by Maria Benedetto Mozo
July 23, 2020
Over the past year I have volunteered at the Digital Transformation Hub (DTH) on the Digital Marketing project. We are a small group of undergraduate students who run the DTH’s social media and promote the Hub’s resources. Shifts are two hours every week and can be chosen to fit your timetable – so there is …
Inspiring Slides: Jan Siberechts’ Wollaton Hall and Park by Ariane Watson.
May 3, 2018
This week’s blogger is second year Ancient History student Ariane Watson who was inspired by a slide in the collection that brought back childhood memories and has relevance to all of us working and studying in close proximity to one of Nottinghamshire’s finest buildings and most beautiful parks! Growing up in Nottingham my childhood was …
Inspiring Slides: John Singer-Sargent’s Mrs. Fiske Warren and Her Daughter Rachael by Ellen Smithies
March 1, 2018
This week’s Inspiring Slide features a famous work by artist John Singer-Sargent who features prominently in the American section of the Humanities slide collection. This particular slide caught the eye of third year Classical Civilisation and History of Art joint hons student Ellen Smithies. John Singer-Sargent was a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century painter famous …
Inspiring Slides: Mr. Wood’s Dog Vulcan by Lois Howorth
February 21, 2018
Today’s Inspiring Slide was chosen by Classics MA student Lois Howorth who chose a little known painting by William Hogarth to write about. Find out how you could be inspired by the School of Humanities’ slide collection at the end of the blog. There is not a lot of information to be found about this …
Inspiring Slides: James Malton’s ‘The Custom House, Dublin’ by Niall Walsh.
December 19, 2017
Today’s Inspiring Slide was chosen by second year History student Niall Walsh who chose James Malton’s The Custom House, Dublin, 1792. Find out how you could be inspired by the School of Humanities’ slide collection at the end of Niall’s blog. The slide I have chosen to write about depicts a drawing by James Malton, …
DHC’S ‘Then and Now’ exhibition, by Macayla Ford Madden and Matt Davies.
June 28, 2017
One of the DHC’s great accomplishments of the 2016-17 academic year was the ‘Then and Now’ exhibition which took place in April. Here DHC student blogger Macayla Ford Madden and manager Matt Davies look back on what was without a doubt the highlight culmination of a great year of DHC student volunteering. With the support and …
Notes on the School of Humanities slide collection part two by Nicholas Alfrey
April 11, 2017
In the second part of Notes on the School of Humanities slide collection, Nicholas Alfrey looks at the contents of the collection and what it tells us about the way History of Art has been taught at Nottingham over past decades. As will be evident to anyone who has spent time browsing through the slide …
Notes on the School of Humanities slide collection, part one by Nicholas Alfrey
March 31, 2017
On Monday 3rd April student volunteers from the DHC launch their Then and Now exhibition, projecting images of Nottingham buildings from the School of Humanities’ slide collection. Projected alongside these will be digital images of the same spaces captured or created by the students themselves, creating a dialogue between images and technologies past and present, then and now. …
Inspiring Slides: Kedleston Hall and its neo-classical architecture by Bethan Huby
March 16, 2017
The latest Inspiring Slides post comes from Bethan Huby who is a post graduate from The Classics department studying on the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity MA course. Bethan also volunteers in the DHC on our Collections Team and was inspired by some stately slides from the Architecture section! Kedleston Hall, located in Derbyshire, …
Inspiring Slides: Picasso’s Le Guéridon (The Pedestal Table) by Jamie Shakespeare.
February 10, 2017
This week we introduce the first in our new Inspiring Slides series. It was written by DHC student volunteer Jamie Shakespeare who is an MA student from the English department and has been volunteering in DHC since November 2016. He has been working on the ISYP digitisation project which -by pure coincidence -we will be reporting …
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