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A very special archives and library in the heart of Canterbury

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 […]

26 May, 202315 Nov, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
A very Kentish education

A very Kentish education

The early 1920s was a period of hope and transformation after the horrors of the Great War.  Education had been hard hit in the period 1914-18 with male teachers joining […]

09 Dec, 202207 Aug, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement, Research
Explore Your Archives Week

Explore Your Archives Week

As archives and records organizations across the UK and Ireland celebrate ‘Explore Your Archives Week’, it seemed a good time to share what has been going on in the CCCU […]

29 Nov, 202223 Jul, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement, Research
Kentish Tales: stories of love, smuggling and murder

Kentish Tales: stories of love, smuggling and murder

Kentish Tales is an exhibition of work by authors who lived in or wrote about Kent and is currently taking place in Augustine House library until the end of October. […]

19 Oct, 202215 Nov, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
STEM subjects in the archives

STEM subjects in the archives

In a history/science mash-up, Barton Court sixth-former Trinity Barber explores what Augustine House Library archives and special collections have to offer for scientists. Read on to find out what she […]

26 Jul, 202223 Jul, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement
The library! You never know what you might find, but I did not expect that

The library! You never know what you might find, but I did not expect that

Peter Joyce explores the library’s archives and special collections and finds Book of Common Prayer that piques his interest . Read on to find out why…

05 Jul, 202207 Aug, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement1 Comment on The library! You never know what you might find, but I did not expect that
Now we are six(ty)

Now we are six(ty)

Following on from our blog post celebrating the early years of the history of Canterbury Christ Church, we have been looking through the archives to find out more about the […]

06 Jun, 202229 Jul, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Public engagement1 Comment on Now we are six(ty)
School visits to Augustine House Library

School visits to Augustine House Library

Augustine House library receives visits from local schools and colleges throughout the academic year.  We love to see the pupils and their teachers exploring the collections for inspiration for a […]

27 May, 202218 Jul, 2024 Canterbury, Home, Public engagement
The Dover Methodist Scrapbook, Herbarium Apuleii Platonici and all things Dickensian

The Dover Methodist Scrapbook, Herbarium Apuleii Platonici and all things Dickensian

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 […]

19 May, 202215 Nov, 2024 Archives / Special Collections, Home, Learning Skills, Public engagement

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