Martin Luther King Jr Day is a holiday held on the third Monday of January in the USA. It celebrates the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr, the […]
Picturing your digital library (or not)
Everyone’s brain is different. I’ve known that mine is different in a particular way since I was at secondary school. I can’t picture things in my head. It doesn’t matter what you describe – a sunny beach, the Drill Hall Library where I work, members of my family – I simply cannot “see” it unless it’s right there in front of me. Apparently, this is unusual, though to me it’s perfectly normal.
D-Day and how a Kent woman communicated the news to the World
On Friday 9th June 1944, The Kent Messenger reporting on D-day, described Kent as “elated but not exultant at news of beach landings” explaining that the county “had witnessed too much […]