Author Archives: Christina Egan

Anglo-Saxon art and life – for children and teachers

Posted on December 1, 2018

Golden knots hammered out on jewellery, golden knots painted around pages… a golden knot of letters forming the word ‘Book’, a golden grid of letters with an inbuilt riddle… This exhibition at the British Library held me spellbound, almost as … Continue reading →

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“Liberty, Fraternity, Labour” : histories of adult education in Germany

Posted on November 9, 2018

What we take for granted today had to be gained in tiny steps, had to be fought for in endless campaigns: learning to read; having something to read; learning to write; being free to write what you think; learning to … Continue reading →

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Knowledge manufacture at the IOE

Posted on July 24, 2018

Intellectuals like to see themselves as constructors or producers of knowledge – artists and academics, too, make things! Indeed, the Institute of Education, and all of UCL, are huge construction, manufacturing, and storage sites, by which I do not mean … Continue reading →

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An Erasmus week in Wonderland

Posted on June 15, 2018

Looming gothic spires and elegant baroque buildings… oddly-shaped squares and cobblestoned lanes… rivers and canals cutting across the network of roads and boulevards… flat land full of bikes and then some steep slopes. Which cities of Europe come to your … Continue reading →

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Teaching resources about refugees – II

Posted on May 10, 2018

Amongst the hundreds of academic books that reach the Newsam Library every month, a colourful cover caught my eye, with two people crossing an orange desert under a deep-blue sky lit by a dazzling moon. This painting is in fact taken from the … Continue reading →

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When books are banished or school is trademarked: dystopian novels in our libraries

Posted on April 10, 2018

Did you know that Senate House, the striking high-rise building next to the main UCL campus, features in two different very dark futuristic novels: The day of the triffids by John Wyndham (1951) and 1984 by George Orwell (1949)? Orwell’s Ministry of Truth … Continue reading →

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Teaching resources about refugees – I

Posted on February 15, 2018

Refugees have at last arrived in our library… at least on paper. On this blog, we have already described a collection of books without words originally created for refugees, and we shall tell you more about resources for and about refugee children and other … Continue reading →

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