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A very special archives and library in the heart of Canterbury

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 […]

26 May, 202315 Nov, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
Queering Game Studies and Playing With Our Selves: a Retrospective on 2021’s LGBT+ History Month Games Events

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+ […]

21 Feb, 202329 Jul, 2024 Diversity and belonging, Home
A very Kentish education

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 […]

09 Dec, 202207 Aug, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement, Research
Explore Your Archives Week

Explore Your Archives Week

As archives and records organizations across the UK and Ireland celebrate ‘Explore Your Archives Week’, it seemed a good time to share what has been going on in the CCCU […]

29 Nov, 202223 Jul, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement, Research
Curriculum Resources:  new teaching resources for education students

Curriculum Resources: new teaching resources for education students

Did you know that Augustine House is home to a wide range of Curriculum Resources, such as books and equipment, which can be borrowed and used within the classroom? Fantastic […]

20 Oct, 202213 Aug, 2024 Canterbury, Collection highlights, Discover Your Library, Home
Kentish Tales: stories of love, smuggling and murder

Kentish Tales: stories of love, smuggling and murder

Kentish Tales is an exhibition of work by authors who lived in or wrote about Kent and is currently taking place in Augustine House library until the end of October. […]

19 Oct, 202215 Nov, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
World Mental Health Day 2022

World Mental Health Day 2022

Featured image World Mental Health Day poster is sourced from World Mental Health Foundation Check-in with yourself, learn, and make the world a better place Chosen theme: ‘Make Mental Health […]

10 Oct, 202201 Aug, 2024 Digital library, Home
STEM subjects in the archives

STEM subjects in the archives

In a history/science mash-up, Barton Court sixth-former Trinity Barber explores what Augustine House Library archives and special collections have to offer for scientists. Read on to find out what she […]

26 Jul, 202223 Jul, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
The library! You never know what you might find, but I did not expect that

The library! You never know what you might find, but I did not expect that

Peter Joyce explores the library’s archives and special collections and finds Book of Common Prayer that piques his interest . Read on to find out why…

05 Jul, 202207 Aug, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement1 Comment on The library! You never know what you might find, but I did not expect that

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