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Welcome Week puzzles

Welcome Week puzzles

A challenging welcome week puzzle! But nothing in we couldn’t handle! The white portion was especially hard leaving little room for error!  But we got there thanks so much for always having these out and I hope too see the

Cathy Jamieson October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 Student Blogs Read more

Introducing ‘Curiositas’

Introducing ‘Curiositas’

We’re delighted to announce the launch of Curiositas, York St John’s new Open Access, peer-reviewed journal celebrating postgraduate research in the School of Humanities. Created by postgraduates and for postgraduates, Curiositas provides a supportive platform to share work, experiment with

Cathy Jamieson October 9, 2025October 9, 2025 Student Blogs, What's On Read more

Behind the Scenes at the Archives: working on a digitisation project at York St John’s Historical Archive

Behind the Scenes at the Archives: working on a digitisation project at York St John’s Historical Archive

Behind the Scenes at the Archives: working on a digitisation project at York St John’s Historical Archive By Suzie McKenzie and Charlotte O’Brien, 2nd year History students at York St John Over the course of semester 1 this year, we

Katherine Hughes January 23, 2025August 4, 2025 Student Blogs, YSJ archives No Comments Read more

Behind the scenes at the archives: doing work experience with York St John’s Historical Archive collections

Behind the scenes at the archives: doing work experience with York St John’s Historical Archive collections

Behind the scenes at the archives: doing work experience with York St John’s Historical Archive collections By Jasmine Reed and Connor Brown, second year History students at YSJ As part of our History, Community and Culture module, history students such

Katherine Hughes December 13, 2022August 4, 2025 Student Blogs, YSJ archives No Comments Read more

Why I Chose YSJ for my English Literature PhD

Why I Chose YSJ for my English Literature PhD

Why I Chose YSJ for my English Literature PhD I think it was as early as the second year of my undergraduate degree when I decided that I wanted to do a PhD. I didn’t have a topic in mind

Margot Miltenberger May 27, 2022August 29, 2025 Student Blogs No Comments Read more

Four books that will make you love Greek mythology

Four books that will make you love Greek mythology

Four books that will make you love Greek mythology Greek mythology can be seen as a dusty subject, difficult to dive into and impossible to navigate through the sheer amount of names and diabolical creatures it expects you to know.

LUCY CUMMINGS May 5, 2022April 21, 2023 Book Reviews, Student Blogs No Comments Read more

A Day in the Life of a Student Researcher at York St John

A Day in the Life of a Student Researcher at York St John

A Day in the Life of a Student Researcher at York St John In 2021 I was a part of a Students as Researchers project exploring the York St John University’s connections to colonialism. The aim of the project was

Amy McCarthy January 6, 2022April 21, 2023 Student Blogs No Comments Read more

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