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 […]
South Asian Heritage Month 2023
From the 18th July to the 17th August, we’re celebrating South Asian Heritage Month to honour our South Asian community and their ‘Stories to Tell’.
Working with the David Baron Collection
This semester second year students Natalie Tungate and Daniel Randall have been working with the David Baron Collection, a newly acquired collection of objects and Victorian Judaica.
Discerning the Sighs of the Times
We received a package in the library containing loose leaf type-written sheets detailing the events of a two week summer school that was held at Christ Church College at some […]
A very special archives and library in the heart of Canterbury
On Tuesday the CCCU Library Archives Working Group visited Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library to find out more about archival practice in the city. In this blog post we’ll be […]
Queering Game Studies and Playing With Our Selves: a Retrospective on 2021’s LGBT+ History Month Games Events
by Dr. Joe Baxter-Webb, Senior Lecturer in Games Design In 2021, I enlisted the help of colleagues and students to put together two games-related events as part of CCCU’s LGBT+ […]
A very Kentish education
The early 1920s was a period of hope and transformation after the horrors of the Great War. Education had been hard hit in the period 1914-18 with male teachers joining […]