One of the benefits of being a Chaplain, is wandering around the campus and engaging with the academic community and learning about all the amazing research that often takes place […]
Now we are six(ty)
Following on from our blog post celebrating the early years of the history of Canterbury Christ Church, we have been looking through the archives to find out more about the […]
Strange Winter in the archives
It’s been a strange winter in the archives and we’d like to tell you more about some of the exciting things we have been doing and the volunteers who help […]
The Dover Methodist Scrapbook, Herbarium Apuleii Platonici and all things Dickensian
This year the library offered two placement opportunities to Applied Humanities: Employability in Practice students – one was digitizing and researching a nineteenth-century scrapbook, and the other was processing and […]
War Horses
A notebook belonging to W.B. Maxwell, playwright and novelist, details his time serving in France with the Royal Fusiliers in 1916. As the Regimental Transport Officer, Maxwell lists the names […]
When we were very young
As the university celebrates its diamond jubilee, the library has been uncovering items held in the university archive which tell the story of the university’s early days as a teacher […]
A Merry Christmas from the Archives
Giving books as presents at Christmas is part of a deep-rooted tradition. Here in the library, we decided to find out more about what people in the past read at […]
Let’s get digital! From print to online
Archives and special collections are often left in the shadows, unvisited and unloved. Here at Augustine House, we are keen to showcase and share some of the wonderful resources that […]
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous
A manuscript of ‘The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous’ written by the Victorian author George Augustus Sala has been discovered in the Mary E. Braddon Archive at CCCU. Read on […]