Following on from last year’s Queering The Archives Zine Project, in 2025 we’re focusing on Wellbeing and Mental Health. This is your opportunity to take a peek into our Archives […]
Buried In Ashford: H.E. Bates & Simone Weil
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 […]
Finding out about Ramadan
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 […]