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 […]
A visit to the British Library
When second-year English Language and Communication student Nina Wilson told us that she was going to visit the British Library, we asked her if she would write about it for […]
Children’s authors with local connections
If you’re thinking of picking up a new book to read, why not try one by an author with ties to Canterbury. From surreal ape-filled picture books to gripping suspenseful […]
War Horses
A notebook belonging to W.B. Maxwell, playwright and novelist, details his time serving in France with the Royal Fusiliers in 1916. As the Regimental Transport Officer, Maxwell lists the names […]
Celebrating community
The library is proud to be involved in this year’s “One World Week” (7th-11th February 2022). In this blog post, we’ll be telling you what’s going on in the library […]
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 […]
Crowdsourcing the past
Studying the past is one thing, but do you think you could help contribute to our curation of it? Why not be part of something special during personal development week […]
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 […]