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What the Dickens?! It’s that time of year again…But who was Charles Dickens? 

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 […]

18 Dec, 202307 Aug, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Canterbury, Discover Your Library, Public engagement, Research
Cataloguing the Nic Costa Collection

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 […]

05 Dec, 202307 Aug, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
Championing librarianship in the age of AI

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 […]

14 Nov, 202315 Nov, 2024 Home, Public engagement
More Kentish Tales: Stories of Mystery and Intrigue

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 […]

20 Sep, 202323 Jul, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Public engagement
Mentioned in Despatches

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. […]

21 Aug, 202323 Jul, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
The Jocelyn Brooke Collection

The Jocelyn Brooke Collection

In June 2023, Marrin’s Antiquarian bookshop in Folkestone kindly offered Canterbury Christ Church University a collection of material related to the Kent author Jocelyn Brooke which had been collected by […]

18 Aug, 202307 Aug, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement

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.

16 Jun, 202315 Nov, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
Working with the David Baron Collection

Working with the David Baron Collection

This semester second year students Natalie Tungate and Daniel Randall have been working with the David Baron Collection, a newly acquired collection of objects and Victorian Judaica.

30 May, 202324 Jul, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement, Research2 Comments on Working with the David Baron Collection
Discerning the Sighs of the Times

Discerning the Sighs of the Times

We received a package in the library containing loose leaf type-written sheets detailing the events of a two week summer school that was held at Christ Church College at some […]

26 May, 202315 Nov, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement

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