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The ‘gloomy sky’ and the ‘ruddy glow’ of Dickens’ London
“It was a Sunday evening in London, gloomy, close and stale… Nothing to see but streets, streets, streets. Nothing to breathe but streets, streets, streets.” A ‘Dickensian’ world has become a figure of speech, evoking grim workhouses and haunted graveyards, frosty … Continue reading
Posted in History of Education
Tagged Charles Dickens, child labour, childhood, Christmas, exhibitions, fiction, London, museums, novels, orphans, poverty, social history, Victorians
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A New Home for the “Education in Literature Collection”
Until recently, the Education in Literature Collection was shelved at one end of the Library Teaching Room on Level 4. However, whilst it is still on the same level, the books and DVDs that comprise the collection have found a … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, autobiography, browsing, Canada, China, Classics, crime, DVDs, Education in Literature Collection, english sub-titles, foreign language films, France, genre, Germany, humour, India, leisure, novels, plays, reading for pleasure, Social Area, Spain, UK, USA
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Fictional favourite
I studied History at school until A’ Level and am still interested in the way in which is taught. Upon recently rereading one of my favourite books in the Education in Literature Collection, To serve them all my days by … Continue reading
Posted in Education in Literature Collection, Library, Library and Archives, Special Collections
Tagged 1914-1918, authors, BBC TV, Boarding Schools, collections, Devon, dramatists, England, history, hsistory teachers, male teachers, novelists, novels, private schools, R. F. Delderfield, schools in TV series, shell-shock, social history, teaching, Television, West Buckland School, West Country, World War
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Don’t judge a collection by its title
You could potentially be missing out on a great read or an entertaining DVD if you find the name ‘Education in Literature Collection’ off putting. The criteria for inclusion in the Collection is ‘novels, poetry, plays and DVDs about the … Continue reading
Posted in Education in Literature Collection, Library, Library and Archives
Tagged 1950s, Alan Bennett, America, biographies, Boarding Schools, Britain, crime, DVDs, fiction, girls, Grammar Schools, India, John Carey, laughter, LGBT, novels, Oxford University, plays, poetry, Science Fiction, South Africa, special collections, Yemen
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Films for Francophiles
The Education in Literature Collection contains a number of films in French with English subtitles. Older favourites by classic directors are represented by Pocket Money (L’argent de poche) directed by Francois Truffaut and Au revoir les enfants directed by Louis … Continue reading
An American Classic
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (1959) is regarded as an American Classic. The two main protagonists Phineas (Finny) and Gene Forrester are pupils at Devon, a New England Prep School. Gene is a quiet, introverted boy who, because he … Continue reading
Hesse’s romantic and sinister tale of boarding school life
Merciless cramming according to an obsolete curriculum… constant fighting and bullying at a boys’ boarding school… pressure from peers and pressure from parents… vast social differences and social mobility through achievement… ardent friendship and careless betrayal… overpowering desire and fear … Continue reading
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Tagged Education in Literature Collection, fiction, Hesse, history of education, literature, novels, World Book Night
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