It’s a hundred years since Australia and New Zealand’s involvement in World War One. London joined Australia, New Zealand and other countries globally, to remember those who fought and lost their lives […]
London commemorates Anzac Day
The Goldsmiths-Gallipoli Connection
‘They Died For Freedom And Honour’ Walk into Goldsmiths Richard Hoggart building, and this is the epitaph you’ll see carved across the college war memorial. Of the 109 soldiers named on that […]
How the Loring family rediscovered the history of Goldsmiths’ first Warden
William Loring was almost lost to his descendants. After his death, William was never talked about in the family home, no photographs of him hung on the wall. William’s grandson David Loring […]
Gallipoli from the Ottoman perspective
The Ottoman perspective has been presented in a special conference marking staff and students who died at Gallipoli in 1915 during the Great War. There’s been a specific tribute to the University’s first […]
The Marginalised Voices of Gallipoli
Feature by Al Riddell and Harriet Onyett The Gallipoli campaign (1915-16) of The Great War is mainly remembered here in Britain as a bloody and failed attempt to capture the Turkish capital of […]
In the pursuit of tangible traces of history
For Ellie Grigsby, a third year History student at Goldsmiths University, finding the artifacts that portray past lives is an essential element in covering history. Together with a group of fellow students, […]
London respects ANZAC day and all those who died in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915
Descendants of veterans and 1,500 military representatives from all nations and units have marched and assembled to remember those who fought and died in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. Sir Lockwood Smith, […]
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