This is a story of two wars. One, in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 first published in 1961, is a fictionalised version of WW2; though by the latter 1960s and early […]
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 […]
Windrush Literature
Broadly speaking, Windrush literature has so far been produced in two distinct timeframes: first, during the period of governmentally encouraged Caribbean immigration into Britain from the 1950s to the early […]
Women in translation
Whilst there were notable exceptions – Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86), Colette (1873-1954) and Hélène Cixous (1937 -), for example – throughout the twentieth century far fewer international women writers were […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
A very special archives and library in the heart of Canterbury
On Tuesday the CCCU Library Archives Working Group visited Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library to find out more about archival practice in the city. In this blog post we’ll be […]