Across the UK, members of the University and College Union are striking. The UCU is a British trade union which represents over 120,000 people who work in further and higher education. The […]
University strike: pensions, pay and casualisation
Labour launch European election campaign and other stories
Labour launch European election campaign Jeremy Corbyn has launched the Labour Party’s campaign for the upcoming European elections, vowing to unite the country and heal the divisions caused by Brexit. During a […]
70 years of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four- more comedy than Dystopian nightmare?
In 1949 a largely bedridden 46 year old writer, coughing blood from tuberculosis, whose father had been an Imperial civil servant being paid to profit from the Opium trade to China, had […]
Student anti racism occupation protest passes 50 days
A student occupation of a university building in the southeast London borough of Lewisham has passed its 50th day. The protesters have occupied Goldsmiths’ Deptford Town Hall on New Cross Road since […]
Yearly Audio Drama Festival at Goldsmiths Announced
The first ever Audio Drama Festival will take place in March this year at Goldsmiths University of London, New Cross. Attendees will receive workshop-style lectures in producing, writing, podcasting and drama with […]
Leading journalists and politicians support striking lecturers at Goldsmiths
Striking University College Union members at Goldsmiths, University of London are being supported by leading politicians and journalists. Lecturers are taking industrial action to protect their pensions and have planned a series […]
Goldsmiths UCU strike action: ‘never a more difficult and upsetting time’
Goldsmiths, University of London, is kicking off its first day of strike action in the nationwide industrial action over lecturer pension reform. It is one of 61 universities that has voted to […]
A hung Parliament – Prime Minister Theresa May’s political gamble fails
Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn has defied expectations in the 2017 General Election campaign and secured 40 per cent of the popular vote. But the Labour gains are not enough to make […]
Goldsmiths Radio play tops iTunes
Rathband, a radioplay by Goldsmiths PhD student Christopher Hogg has been ranked the number one Arts Podcast on iTunes this week. Hogg wrote the play whilst doing his MA in writing for […]
Goldsmiths Student Elections 2017
The results are in for the 2017 Goldsmiths, University of London student elections. With four new full-time student officer and additional part-time officer posts being filled, many new promises have been made […]
The Political Power of Music- a new book by Dave Randall
Sound System: The Political Power of Music written by musician, writer and activist Dave Randall is published this month by Pluto Press. Dave Randall explores the role of music in creating social change from […]
Breaking news: the scoop is dead, long live the press release
If you were one among the dwindling number of people who bought a newspaper on 20th April 2016, you may have wondered why many of the front pages looked rather similar. Most […]
Donald Trump Aims for Presidency
Donald Trump has just won another four primaries in four states this week, despite the increasing number of anti-Trump protests. A rally in Chicago on March 11th was shut down for safety reasons […]
Archbishop of Canterbury: It is not racist to fear migration
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said that it is not racist to be anxious about migration. He told Parliament’s The House magazine that fear was a ‘valid emotion’ at a moment […]
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 […]
The collective exhaustion
Are you exhausted? If yes, perhaps you should go see the new exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection and find out why. The exhibition called ‘Use/User/Used’ focuses on the exhaustion we share as a community and the […]
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 […]
Dramatising the Great War soundscape
The Great War had a distinctive soundscape for those who lived it. This was greatly enhanced by the phonograph, which brought recorded music to the ears of many. As part of the […]
Lewisham’s first cinema opens in 15 years
With the opening of the Curzon cinema in Goldsmiths University, Lewisham will no longer be the only borough in London, to not have its own dedicated cinema. The newly opened 101 seater […]
First George Orwell Studies conference at Goldsmiths
History has been made at Goldsmiths, University of London with the first George Orwell Studies conference held in the College’s new cinema. Leading academics gave presentations highlighting that Orwell wrote with a […]
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, […]
Goldsmiths Radio Students take top prizes for News Feature and Documentary Journalism
Goldsmiths radio students took the top prize in news feature and documentary journalism at this year’s Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) awards held at ITV’s prestigious South Bank centre in London. They […]
The Poetry of Gallipoli
“How does one define cowardice?” Asks Senior Goldsmiths lecturer Richard Shannon, (pictured right), as he prepares to read selected poetry at the University’s Postcards From Gallipoli event that took place on Monday […]
Discovering James Bond’s rival in the spy novels of mysterious author Alexander Wilson
A Goldsmiths academic’s investigation into the life of a mysterious spy author has led to the republication of his novels over 80 years later. The London publisher Allison and Busby is planning […]
Goldsmiths University Welfare & Diversity Officer in media storm over racism row
A Goldsmiths Student Union Welfare officer has come under fire in the media after holding an event which excluded white men. Her defence of her position has continued to be at the centre […]
Jay Merriman-Mukoro scholarship scheme announced for MA Radio programme at Goldsmiths, University of London
A scholarship scheme in the name of a distinguished former MA Radio student, Jay Merriman-Mukoro, has been launched to support a future talented programme maker studying on the course. Jay died tragically in […]
Goldsmiths media and communications department creates award in memory of former MA Radio student
The Media and Communications Department of Goldsmiths, University of London has created annual award in the name of a former documentary producer who died in a tragic swimming accident last year. 43 […]
Goldsmiths students end their occupation of college management building
A group of Goldsmiths students has ended the occupation of the University’s central management building Deptford Old Town Hall. This was part of a London wide campaign against commercialisation in Higher Education. […]
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