Featured image World Mental Health Day poster is sourced from World Mental Health Foundation Check-in with yourself, learn, and make the world a better place Chosen theme: ‘Make Mental Health […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]
PICO and SPIDER and SPICE, oh my!
As a health librarian, one of the things which final year and postgraduate students ask me about most often is PICO. But what on earth is PICO? Not, sadly, a […]
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 […]
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 […]
World Book Week: Julia and the Shark
Emily Ing, Primary Education student and Reading for Pleasure Ambassador, explores Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave to celebrate World Book Day 2022.
War Horses
A notebook belonging to W.B. Maxwell, playwright and novelist, details his time serving in France with the Royal Fusiliers in 1916. As the Regimental Transport Officer, Maxwell lists the names […]