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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, 202210 Dec, 2022 Archives & Special Collections, BLOG, NEWS, Public engagement, Research, STAFF, STUDENTS
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, 202229 Nov, 2022 Archives & Special Collections, BLOG, NEWS, Public engagement, Research, STAFF, STUDENTS
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, 202219 Oct, 2022 Archives & Special Collections, BLOG, NEWS, Public engagement, STAFF, STUDENTS
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, 202226 Jul, 2022 Archives & Special Collections, BLOG, Public engagement, STAFF, STUDENTS
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

One of the benefits of being a Chaplain, is wandering around the campus and engaging with the academic community and learning about all the amazing research that often takes place […]

05 Jul, 202205 Jul, 2022 Archives & Special Collections, BLOG, NEWS, Public engagement, STAFF, STUDENTS1 Comment on The library! You never know what you might find, but I did not expect that
Now we are six(ty)

Now we are six(ty)

Following on from our blog post celebrating the early years of the history of Canterbury Christ Church, we have been looking through the archives to find out more about the […]

06 Jun, 202201 Jun, 2022 Archives & Special Collections, BLOG, Public engagement, STAFF, STUDENTS1 Comment on Now we are six(ty)
Strange Winter in the archives

Strange Winter in the archives

It’s been a strange winter in the archives and we’d like to tell you more about some of the exciting things we have been doing and the volunteers who help […]

30 May, 202230 May, 2022 Archives & Special Collections, BLOG, Public engagement, STAFF, STUDENTS
School visits to Augustine House Library

School visits to Augustine House Library

Augustine House library receives visits from local schools and colleges throughout the academic year.  We love to see the pupils and their teachers exploring the collections for inspiration for a […]

27 May, 202226 Jul, 2022 BLOG, Public engagement, STAFF
The Dover Methodist Scrapbook, Herbarium Apuleii Platonici and all things Dickensian

The Dover Methodist Scrapbook, Herbarium Apuleii Platonici and all things Dickensian

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 […]

19 May, 202219 May, 2022 Archives & Special Collections, BLOG, Employability, Public engagement, Skills, STAFF, STUDENTS

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