Monthly Archives: August 2011

Good-bye Education Image Gallery and Film & Sound Online…

  August saw the disappearance of our access to EIG and F&SO as they became part of the new JISC MediaHub. This service has launched as part of a bigger JISC e-collections subscription package which rolls in extra material including … Continue reading

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The IEE is now online and completely searchable

Back in October 2010, I attempted to get you excited about a new edition of the International Encyloclopedia of Education (IEE). Since then, I haven’t noticed a stampede in the Reference section, but I’m hoping our recent acquisition of the … Continue reading

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More photographs re. education, though not ours this time

Just a heads up really about a favourite blog of mine that happens to have posted a couple of items on photographs relating to education and learning recently; Photographs of Woolverstone Hall School , 1958 (see Wiki on Woolverstone here), … Continue reading

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Now we are one

Happy Birthday (Blogiversary?) to Newsam News! Photo – Belper Secondary Modern, from the Photographic Archive of the Architects’ & Buildings Branch. (ref ABB/A/13/6)  We’ve been blogging away for a year and it seems like a good opportunity to ask people – what … Continue reading

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1000’s of photographs illustrating history of education, 1949-1993

I’ve created this resource guide to show just a few of the subjects illustrated by the Photographic Collection of the Architects and Buildings Branch, Ministry of Education. The catalogue for this collection is available here. Many schools are mentioned by name, … Continue reading

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NUWT cataloguing highlights

All images ©Institute of Education Archive As  I’ve been writing up all my cataloguing finds over at the new home of the NUWT blog I thought I’d share photos of some of my cataloguing highlights of the past few weeks … Continue reading

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New British Library webpages for social scientists

The British Library (BL) has recently re-designed its webpages for research support, neatly bringing together all the resources and events likely to be of interest to researchers in the social sciences. As you might expect education features as one of … Continue reading

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