Sixth Form Students Summer School

On 25 and 26 June 2014, the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, in collaboration with the Parkes Institute, hosted 130 sixth-form students for a highly successful summer school on the theme of ‘War and Resistance’ as part of the university’s ‘Great War: Unknown War’ programme of events. The Summer School covered a range of historical and geographical topics, with a special focus on the First World War. The Summer School gave students a taster of studying Humanities subjects at Southampton with lecture and seminar elements to the sessions, and also included a panel on ‘University Life and Admissions’