What is Ramadan? Ramaḍān is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, it is 30 days of ṣiyām (fasting) in commemoration of the first revelation of the Qur’an to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
More Kentish Tales: Stories of Mystery and Intrigue
More Kentish Tales is the second exhibition of work by authors who lived in or wrote about Kent. It is currently taking place in Augustine House library until the end […]
Mentioned in Despatches
This semester volunteering in the archives has led to some interesting discoveries. We’ve been looking at material from the Victorian era, WW1 and WW2. Read on to find out more. […]