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 […]
World Book Week: Julia and the Shark
Emily Ing, Primary Education student and Reading for Pleasure Ambassador, explores Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave to celebrate World Book Day 2022.
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 […]
Mark Aguhar : a huge impact for such a short life
Mark Aguhar was a genderqueer/transgendered individual who spent much of their life showing the world that they were who they were and that was good enough; in essence fighting against […]
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 […]
What we did in the archives
It’s been pretty busy time in the university archives this semester, with boxes of artefacts being trolleyed around the building for classes and researchers. Read on to find out more […]
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, […]