Media and English blog

You can now learn about the people of the BBC through the Connected Histories of the BBC. The Arts and Humanities Research Council funded a six-year oral history project where the majority of recordings are from 1972-2001. The interviews are a mixture of video and audio-only and are normally accompanied by transcripts. Topics covered include the history of broadcasting at the BBC, the evolution of job descriptions and programme content. 

For themed guides to the collections explore the Voices of the BBC - for your convenience, the themes are listed here:

• Inventing the future
• Entertaining the UK
• The BBC and the Cold War
• The BBC and World War Two
• Pioneering women
• People, nation and empire
• Radio reinvented
• The birth of TV
• Elections
• BBC memories

The Carnegies are long-running UK children’s book awards – they recognise outstanding reading experiences for writing and illustrating in books for children and young people. The Carnegie Medal for Illustration is the award for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people. More information is available on the Carnegies web page.

In the library we are fortunate to have a number of the books which have won this illustration award in recent years.

• Becker, A. (2023) The tree and the river (winner of the 2024 prize)
• Nguyen, T. and Zdung, J. (2023) Saving Sorya: Chang and the sun bear
• Pinfold, L. (2011) The black dog
• Reynolds, J. and Novgorodoff, D. (2020) Long way down: the graphic novel
• Smith, L (2017) There is a tribe of kids
• Smith, S. (2019) Small in the city

We encourage all illustration, design and creative writings students to borrow and read the books.  Explore them to discover the style of illustration, how the stories have been written and how the illustrations enhance the stories. 

…. and who knows, you could be a winner in future years!