Armistice Day- the eleventh day of the eleventh month symbolises the UK’s immeasurable losses to armed conflict in the Great War of 1914 to 1918.
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Caroline Graveson- A founding conscience of Goldsmiths’ College
Caroline Graveson’s appointment as women’s Vice Principal of Goldsmiths’ College in 1905 received national newspaper exultation. The Daily Telegraph and London Evening Standard said ‘it
A greatly lamented Goldsmiths’ casualty of Passchendaele- William Thomas Young
One day in the middle of July 1917 a telegram boy delivered the message to Mrs Hilda Young that her husband, Lieutenant William Thomas Young,
Goldsmiths, Art and Winston Churchill
It was the worst day of their lives. That was the sense of emotional and professional disaster for Goldsmiths Art School alumni Graham and Kathleen
The mystery of Goldsmiths ‘College Beggar’
In the early part of Goldsmiths history a character known as ‘The College Beggar’ occupied a makeshift box to the left of the college’s entrance.