Two very different authors connected by a resting place in Kent The unlikely pairing of H.E. Bates (1905-1974) and Simone Weil (1909-1943) are bought together by the location of their […]
Eco-Hope, Photo Competition
What give you hope for the future? Throughout March the Library and Learning Resources Department will be joining forces with the Academy of Sustainable Futures to promote a vision of […]
Eco-Hope: Stitching, not ditching
Join us this March for some slow-fashion and eco-friendly clothes fixes as part of this month’s #StressLess and the Eco-Hope programming in collaboration with The Academy for Sustainable Futures. We’ve […]
I do like to be beside the seaside
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 […]
Books and Beyond – inspiring young readers in the local community
Ordering education books for the library is never dull. Last week I requested a collection of essays by key educational theorists, and I have now just asked our amazing library […]
What the Dickens?! It’s that time of year again…But who was Charles Dickens?
Charles Dickens and his Legacy Here we are again! December! I know most of us will be concerned about the game “You’ve just been Whammed”! (How long can you go […]
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 […]
Championing librarianship in the age of AI
Last Friday, I was invited to be a panellist at the BBC Bitesize Roadshow which took place at Barton Court School. The Roadshow is part of a UK-wide tour, visiting 125,000 secondary […]