The library has acquired a collection of seaside postcards as part of the Nic Costa Archive. These postcards date from the turn of the 20th century and include images of […]
Queering The Archive Zine Project
Are you curious about what lurks in the hidden shelves of our Special Collections? Do you want to have a go at making a zine? Or has your research lead […]
LGBT+ History Month: Queer Pasts and present resources
New Resource ‘Queer Pasts’ is an American LGBTQ archive with a round up of all our online queer resources
Cataloguing the Nic Costa Collection
The Nic Costa Archive (NCA) was established in the September of 2021 with the arrival of eighteen boxes of coin-operated and amusement arcade trade artefacts, documents, and memorabilia, to the […]
More Kentish Tales: Stories of Mystery and Intrigue
More Kentish Tales is the second exhibition of work by authors who lived in or wrote about Kent. It is currently taking place in Augustine House library until the end […]
Mentioned in Despatches
This semester volunteering in the archives has led to some interesting discoveries. We’ve been looking at material from the Victorian era, WW1 and WW2. Read on to find out more. […]
The Jocelyn Brooke Collection
In June 2023, Marrin’s Antiquarian bookshop in Folkestone kindly offered Canterbury Christ Church University a collection of material related to the Kent author Jocelyn Brooke which had been collected by […]
In which the author eats humble pie
In a follow-on post from “Discerning the sighs of the times”, the author sighs a lot as she uncovers the truth about the CANTESS conference and discusses the importance of […]
International Archives Day 2023
In celebration of the International Archives Day, we’re pleased to unveil a display from our archives here at AH Library to reminisce on the history of CCCU.