# Event Details - **Event Name**: Anniversary Cultures: New Histories of Students and Higher Education - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 09:30 am – Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: Organised by UCL's International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE) and the Institute for Historical Research (IHR)About this EventThis conference marks 200 years since the foundation of London’s first university in 1826. Students have formed a significant part of London’s population since then and new research centres their experiences in the capital. The ‘Generation UCL: 200 Years of Student Life in London’ project examined life at the original London University (known as University College London since 1836) alongside many other institutions that eventually joined with UCL, capturing a diverse range of higher education experiences. The resultant book was published in February 2026.Through this free one-day event, we seek to open the discussion beyond London students, examining new ways of writing histories of universities and inviting exploration of students’ everyday lives, fees and funding, collegiate cultures, social and political engagement, religion, physical and mental health, recreation, sports and leisure as well as changing student attitudes to class, race, gender, sex and sexuality. Following Huxford and Wallace’s (2016) discussion of ‘anniversary cultures’ in universities we also invite reflection on how and why different types of institutions mark anniversaries, and the role historical research can play in this process.We are delighted to welcome Professor Rosinka Chaudhuri to give the 2026 Richard Aldrich lecture.Provisional Programme9.30 Registration (The morning part of the programme takes place in Chancellor's Hall, Senate House)Please note we are not serving refreshments during this opening so feel free to get a coffee from a local cafe before you arrive.Opportunity to view an archives showcase from Senate House Library and Archives arranged by University of London archivist Beth Astridge.10.00 Welcome and introductions – Claire Langhamer (IHR) and Gary McCulloch (UCL)Short talk introducing Student London – Sam Blaxland and Georgina Brewis (UCL)10.45 Lightning talks 1Chair: Mark Freeman (UCL)Charlotte Taylor (LSBU), Reactivating the Student Archive: Student Experience, Activism and Identity at London South BankMeredith McLaughlin (UCL), Women Pioneers at WyomingAzure Bao (UCL) IOE’s 75th Anniversary and the Bloomsbury 'Jigsaw'Lucia Qureshi (UCL), Gendered Opportunities for Transness in Histories of Higher EducationNick Mead(Oxford Brookes), Reflections on student-teachers’ experience of dialectical synergies within the affiliated training colleges of the institutes of education in the universities of London, Manchester and Newcastle 1958 -197511.15 Break - Tea, coffee, water, juice and pastries will be provided11.40 Lightning talks 2Chair: Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University)Mark Freeman (UCL), Anniversaries and Adult Education: The Vital MessageMinghao Zhang (UCL), Chinese and Japanese Students in UK higher education, 1895-1941Isabel Mangum (University of Oxford), Women’s Universities, Mobility, and the Making of 20th Century American Imperial KnowledgeAdrian Fernandes (University of Oxford), Disrupting Epistemic Dominion: A Blueprint for Antiracist PGCE English ProgrammesAnthony Armstrong (Birmingham City University), The History of Doctoral Supervision12.15 Roundtable: Anniversary CulturesChair: Claire Langhamer (IHR)Speakers: Lucy Briggs (UCL), Angharad Eyre (University of London) and William Whyte (University of Oxford)13.15 Lunch - Buffet lunch, water, tea and coffee14.00 Paper session AA1: Institutions and Anniversaries (Chancellor's Hall)Chair: Jack Deasley (UCL)· Jodi Burkett and Anna Delaney (University of Portsmouth), Students in 1926 Portsmouth: Negotiating competing interests in a civic anniversary exhibition· Tom Woodin and Nazlin Bhimani (UCL), Anniversary cultures and the history of teacher education· Keith Vernon (University of Lancashire), A Model Space for FE Students. The Harris College Preston, c.1950 – 65· Josh Patel (Edge Foundation), The New Universities sixty years on, and the purposes of histories of learningA2: Reflecting on Historiography and Methodology (Wolfson Room, IHR)Chair: Jennifer Bond (UCL)· Mirelsie Velazquez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Writing our Own Place in History: La Carta Informativa and Latina/o Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign· Milo Edwards (University of Oxford), Critical use of Archival Materials in Understanding LGBTQ+ Student Experience Narratives· Anna Edwards (University of Sheffield) Cramming and Crisis: Student Mental Health and the British Professional Press 1880-2000· Sarah Limb (King’s College London), Colonial and Commonwealth Students at King’s College London between 1918 and 19703.30 Break - Tea, coffee, water, juice and biscuits will be provided4.00 Papers session BB1: Student Experiences (Chancellor's Hall)Chair: Milo Edwards (University of Oxford)· Grady Owens (University of Oxford), Collegiate Martiality: Student-Soldiers, Warlike Sport, and the Making of Martial Minds on American College Campuses during World War One· Jenny Macleod (University of Hull), Student voices from the crucible of war: University College Hull in the Second World War· Joseph Price (University of Warwick), AIDS and the Student Body: Reactions and Responses from the National Union of Students· Mengyuan Yue (University of Glasgow), Fellowship and Identity: Evangelical Student Organisations and International Students in Postwar British UniversitiesB2: The student media and mixed methods (Wolfson Room, IHR)Chair: Tom Woodin (UCL)· Carly Randall (Brunel University of London), “You can’t say that now!” Balancing Sensitivity and Authenticity when Handling the Archives of a Students Union.· Leona Fensome (University of Bedfordshire), Transformative Transience: Passing through, British Student Radio Management Alumni· Tommy Barone (University of Oxford), The New In Loco Parentis: The Student Press and Harvard After Vietnam5.30 Richard Aldrich Lecture 2026 (Chancellor's Hall)Rosinka Chaudhuri (Director and Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta), ‘Pioneering Global Trends in Education, 1817-1835’Chair: Georgina Brewis (UCL)6.30 Drinks reception sponsored by UCL200Copies of Student London will be on sale for the special price of £207.30 CloseUCL General Privacy Notice: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/legal-services/privacy/general-privacy-notice - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/anniversary-cultures-new-histories-of-students-and-higher-education/100001986988911322 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Sports, Workshops, health-wellness, Exhibitions - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Senate House Building - **lat**: 51.521055 - **long**: -0.1287135 - **full address**: Senate House Building, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Anniversary Cultures: New Histories of Students and Higher Education - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/30d26d515808f22ac5b40105042f052051283e1a73ad90d46c8d017c3248486c-rimg-w1200-h438-dc34312d-gmir.jpg?v=1781529594 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Anniversary Cultures: New Histories of Students and Higher Education being held? 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