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Children’s Rights in the History of Education Collection, UCL Institute of Education

Thursday 10th December is International Human Rights Day. In readiness for this Sally Perry and I have put together a display of materials from the Curriculum Resources and the Special Collections. The materials from the Special Collections are from the … Continue reading

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More UK archive film now online

This month the East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA) has completed a major cataloguing and digitisation programme designed to enable wider access to its holdings, and some 200 hours of material is now available online. The EAFA is unusual in that … Continue reading

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Tales in and out of school

We’ve recently added to stock two very different DVD compilations looking at young people and schooling in Britain. Featuring films from the 1950s and early 1960s by John Krish, ‘A day in the life’ takes a classic documentary view, while … Continue reading

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School histories and the home front

The library’s recent launch of the School Histories book collection prompted me to think about how local film archives often have material relevant to schools and local historians. The collective site of the UK’s film archives, Moving History, provides a … Continue reading

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