Category Archives: History of Education
IOE Library’s Special Collections Advent Calendar 2016
Although Advent officially began on 27th November this year, I am publishing the Special Collections Advent calendar today in the run up to Christmas. Over the next 25 days, starting today 1st December, you will get some information about each of … Continue reading
The provenance of the Baines Collection
This afternoon, while tidying in the Special Collections, I came across a letter relevant to the provenance of the Baines Collection. I thought I would share some of this information with you by piecing together the existing information and the … Continue reading
Chancing upon Hayward in the Conway Hall Library
Last week, during a break from working in our basement closed stacks, Sally Perry and I happened upon Conway Hall in Red Lion Square. It is the Ethical Society’s 1920s HQ and has a gem of a library. The Library … Continue reading
More than just a number (Part 2): Making Administrative Memoranda discoverable
Back in January I wrote a post about the work that we have been doing to improve the discoverability of items within our Official Publications collection. That post demonstrated how we used digitisation techniques to unlock the content of some … Continue reading
The wondrous world of book illustration
If you have not been to the fabulous exhibition about 150 years of Alice in Wonderland, it is still on until 16 April 2016. It is right in the foyer of the British Library, and it is free of charge. You … Continue reading
The Other Dewey
I know…. librarians are supposed to get excited about Melvil Dewey, the American educator and inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. No disrepect to Melvil, but I am more intrigued these days with the other Dewey …. … Continue reading
The tiger who came out of the page
For you, the moment of recognition might be the Tiger who came to tea and peacefully took a seat at your mum’s kitchen table; or Aslan, the giant benign lion, jumping out of the pages of the Chronicles of Narnia; … Continue reading
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