This blog post forms part of History Day 2020, a day of online interactive events for students, researchers and history enthusiasts to explore library, museum, archive and history collections across the UK and beyond. Jisc Library Hub Discover, a free service, exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of over 165 […]
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We’re pleased to announce that the holdings of the University of West London, the Salvation Army International Heritage Centre, Museum of the Order of St John Library, Glasgow School of Art and Oxford Brookes University have been added to the Library Hub Discover service. University of West London The University of West London operates libraries […]
We’re pleased to announce that the holdings of the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue, Birmingham City University and the University of the Arts London have been added to the Discover service. Cathedral Libraries Catalogue (pre-1701 European books) The Cathedral Libraries database is not a current catalogue of the cathedral holdings. It represents an electronic version of the […]
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How Jisc is supporting HE in FE
Higher education teaching and learning in further education colleges is on the rise across the UK. According to statistics released by the Association of Colleges, colleges provide 82% of Higher National Certificates, 82% of Higher National Diplomas and 59% of Foundation Degrees in England. In 2017-18, higher education entrants at colleges accounted for 26.3% of […]
The Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum comprises over 12,000 items from the eighteenth century to the present, and is a major research resource for the study of Handel and his contemporaries. Handel was a major benefactor of the Foundling Hospital, a home for children founded in 1739 by Thomas Coram, which counted […]