{"id":3908,"date":"2026-05-14T17:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:39:29","slug":"portsmouth-history-students-launch-interactive-trails-for-southsea-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth history students launch interactive trails for Southsea Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UOP History students studying the second-year Working with the Past module have launched an interactive trail for Southsea Castle, which was built for Henry VIII in the then fashionable trace italienne style of angled star-shaped fort, examples of which you can find all across Europe.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to read a post about how the Castle was captured by the parliamentarians at the start of the English Civil War from its drunken royalist commander!<\/em><\/section>\n
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The trail follows the launch of a student-written trail for Portsmouth Cathedral last year.\u00a0 Each of the students – Ben Whiteman, Charlie Wilkinson, Madi East and Magdalena Djakovic<\/span> – worked on a different part of the structure: the keep, the courtyard and the ramparts.\u00a0 Click here to link to an online version of the trail, and below to read each student’s blog piece where about their work:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

Madi East (the keep)<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Whiteman (rampart, land side)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Magdalena Djakovi\u0107<\/span> (rampart, ocean side)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Charlie Wilkinson (the courtyard)<\/a><\/p>\n

Madi East has already written a piece on an Elizabethan clerical scandal for our history blog, which you can read here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are interested in Portsmouth’s fortifications, read Callum Ireland’s blog<\/a> on the work of Sir Bernard de Gomme.<\/em><\/p>\n

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UOP History students studying the second-year Working with the Past module have launched an interactive trail for Southsea Castle, which was built for Henry VIII in the then fashionable trace italienne style of angled star-shaped fort, examples of which you can find all across Europe.\u00a0 Click here to read a post about how the Castle was captured by the parliamentarians at the start of the English Civil War from its drunken royalist commander! The trail follows the launch of a student-written trail for Portsmouth Cathedral last year.\u00a0 Each of the students – Ben Whiteman, Charlie Wilkinson, Madi East and Magdalena Djakovic – worked on a different part of the structure: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[883,27,32,91,329,164,877],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning_in_focus","category-uncategorized","tag-fortifications","tag-heritage","tag-portsmouth","tag-seventeenth-century","tag-sixteenth-century","tag-southsea-castle","tag-working-with-the-past"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p91PlX-112","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}