Suzie Williams
Come and explore these lovely fashion books now in the library!
Twigg (2013) Fashion and age: dress, the body and later life.
Whether you're a creative writer, a budding journalist or a screen writer, there are many skills that go into your trade. Explore these books recently bought for the library:
Come and explore these lovely books all about film!
The Rebel Women of Sunderland is a project that shines a light on the lives of Rebel Women from Sunderland with specially commissioned artworks, stories and podcasts.
This podcast takes inspiration from the women through conversations with modern-day remarkable Sunderland women including those in community organisations that represent some of the contemporary themes raised through the podcasts - for example women’s writing and creativity, women and the music industry , women’s mental wellbeing and creativity , women and sports.
You can explore the Rebel Women on Sunderland on the Sunderland Culture web site along with artwork by Kathryn Robertson and stories written by Jessica Andrews.
Head over to the podcast now and pick an episode to start listening!
Discover the latest crop of new books in the library in the field of journalism:
The Carnegies are long-running UK children’s book awards which 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. The Carnegie Medal for Writing is awarded for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.
The winner's of the 2025 competition have been announced! More information is available on the Carnegies web page.
The Carnegies celebrate achievement in children’s writing and illustration and are unique in being judged by a panel of children’s and youth librarians, including 14 librarians from CILIP: the library and information association’s Youth Libraries Group.
[Text and images sourced from The Carnegies web site with permission. More details about the prizes, authors and illustrators are available on the Carnegies web pages]
Box of Broadcasts is a brilliant resource which all our students and staff have access to through the library.
For anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet, Box of Broadcasts (often know as BoB) is an on-demand TV & radio streaming service, giving you access to programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels from the UK and beyond. You can also to be alerted when programmes in the next two weeks are ready to watch - a great tool for your time management!
This series of short videos will help you get the most out of this resource for your studies and research including:
If you're not a big reader but are keen to learn about your subject, this is a really good way of developing your knowledge and helping with your research.
We have some beautifully visual books in the library which are part of the Portrait of Humanity and Portrait of Britain series:
Johannah Churchill is a lecturer in Contemporary Photographic Practice at the university and she says: “For photography students the books are something to aspire to and something to draw inspiration from. Each of the books showcase 200 new portraits from national and international photographers, selected from thousands of entries, allowing the privilege of a glimpse into the lives of their subjects, and celebrating what connect us. They’re such a valuable resource for students to draw upon - a wide selection of contemporary photographers and subject matters – I think what I like most is when students find an image in there and then do a deep-dive into favourite photographers’ work.”
Thanks to Johannah for sharing her insights into how these books are useful for our students studying photography. Do pop into our St Peter's Library to discover the delights of these books and the photographs included in them.
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:
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.
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!