Event at the Newsam Library and Archives

The Library and Archives are holding a one day event on Wednesday 6th February to encourage people learn more about our teaching resources and the day will feature a talk about the NUWT archive and how it can be used in teaching and research.

Covering subjects from using textbooks for propaganda in Germany in the 1930s to creating controversy by debating history in the 1970s the day aims to open up the library’s collections to help new and existing users with their own teaching and research.

The day will feature talks by Dr Toby Simpson of the Wiener Library on the content of German textbooks prior to the Second World War, and Bernard Barker, a history teacher who developed teaching resources to encourage debate amongst pupils and created a controversy in the media by doing so.

The IOE’s Librarians and Archivists will be on hand to provide information and guidance on the our collections with ideas on how these historical collections can be used in new ways. There will also be presentations by two IOE PhD students who are currently using library and archive collections for their research.

Full programme:

10.00 – 10.30	Becky Webster Welcome and introduction to collections held by the Library and Archives
10.30 – 11.30	Dr Toby Simpson How were German children taught Nazi values? The use of textbooks as propaganda, 1933-1945 (talk followed by   questions)
11.30–12.00	Nazlin Bhimani Research and the historical textbooks   collection at the IOE
12.00–12.30	Antony Daws The Inner London Education Authority as an educational publisher. (followed by questions for Nazlin & Antony)
12.40–13.30	LUNCH (bring your own)
13. 30–14.30	Bernard Barker History Teaching & Controversy in the   1970s (talk followed by questions)
14.30–15.00 15.00-15.30	Alice Kirke (MPhil/PhD student) ‘Fresh air and morality’: landscape and environment in the history of education (talk followed by questions) Sean Curran (MPhil/PhD student) A feminine touch: the potential for   using women’s collections for outreach, with reference to the NUWT collection in the IOE Archives (talk followed by questions)
15.30–16.00	Archive and Special Collection showcase

For further information, or to book your place, please contact Rebecca Webster : rebecca.webster@ioe.ac.uk

 

Campaign! Make an Impact – free training and networking day

Campaign! Make an Impact FREE training event and networking group London

FREE EVENT

Date: Tuesday 20 March, 2012 10am-4pm (includes lunch)

Venue: Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

BOOKING ESSENTIAL: Call: 020 7332 3851 or email: ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Campaign! Make An Impact provides an innovative approach to inspire young people to learn about historical campaigns through archive, museum and library collections, and then supports them to develop their own campaigns about areas they feel passionate about. The programme demonstrates how children, and young people can be inspired by the past, and find their own voices and confidence to change the future. You can find out more by visiting http://www.bl.uk/campaign

9.30am Arrival, coffee and welcome

10am Campaign! Make an Impact Training Session

Facilitator: Jan Pimblett, London Metropolitan Archives
This practical session will introduce the background to the British Library Campaign! Make an Impact project, present case studies for discussion and engage delegates in a range of activities which can be used in delivering successful partnership projects between schools, museums, libraries, archives and galleries.

1pm LUNCH

2pm London Network: Skills Exchange and Networking

Find out about new work planned at the Institute of Education Archives, specifically around the archive of the NUWT (National Union of Women Teachers). There will also be a presentation from teacher David Rosenberg about his work at LMA on material relating to the Anti-Apartheid movement and developing this for schools. Other discussions will focus on working with LGBT archive materials and new ideas at Guildhall Art Gallery centered upon exhibitions of John Bartlett (painter of the Poll Tax Riots) and Ajamu of rukus! Federation who will be exhibiting a photographic portrait exhibition of black LGBT people in 2013.

Please bring project news to share and your diaries to fix dates for the next London Network Skills Exchange and Networking Group.