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 […]
Crowdsourcing the past
Studying the past is one thing, but do you think you could help contribute to our curation of it? Why not be part of something special during personal development week and contribute to one of the amazing crowdsourcing projects that needs assistance to digitize and share stories of the past.
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 […]
Oh Yes, Mrs Stannard
When Henrietta Vaughan Stannard opened her novel Army Society: Life in a Garrison Town with the question what elements constitute army society? She answered that there are three elements: mothers, […]
‘Quack march on campus’ – tales from the CCCU Archives
Ducks on campus! Read Florence Long’s blog post about an unexpected find in the university archives. It’ll drive you quackers! As an English Literature graduate, I had a number of […]