As part of our partnership with La Trobe University, a group of students came to Sheffield on the 1 July to spend 2 weeks with the Humanities departments here at Hallam. Their busy timetable included a combination of history lectures and visits to local places of interest such as Weston Park, Kelham Island museum, the National Mining museum and the Abbeydale Industrial hamlet in Sheffield, as well as day trips to Manchester to visit the John Rylands library, York and London.
Professor Anthony Taylor, Professor of Modern British History and one of the organisers of the visit, fed back:
‘For many of the visiting students the Sheffield Hallam/La Trobe study tour is really transformative. Some have never been abroad and they get to know a part of Britain they may not have been familiar with before. Students make lifelong friendships on these study tours – there are regular reunions of study tour members once they’re back home in Australia’.
He also mentioned that:
‘It’s great to look at places in Britain through new eyes – the visiting students make connections with events, people and places in Australia I wouldn’t have thought of, and have taught me so much about the overlaps and differences between culture and identity in Britain and Australia’.
It was a really successful trip with some of the visiting students from La Trobe commenting, ‘I really enjoyed the whole thing. I felt like I learnt a lot about a wide range of history that I might not otherwise have known’ and ‘It was done and organised in a highly engaging and enjoyable way. Every day was great and enjoyable’.
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