Wednesday 1st July
2pm – 8pm
All volunteers welcome. Meet in the Commonweal Collection. Come for as long or short a time as you wish.
Tea and biccies will be provided but you’re welcome to bring more to share!
Look forward to seeing you there.
Paxcat News
The PaxCat Project to make the Commonweal Peace Archives more widely available is now well under way. The first Project e-newsletter is now online, and includes introduction to the Project Archivist, Helen Roberts, and detail about the work of the Project.
http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/paxcatnews.php
Keep in touch with the Project via its own Blog:
It’s no joke – April 1st Workday
The next commonweal workday will be on April 1st 2-8pm.
All volunteers welcome. Meet in the Commonweal Collection.
Jobs we’ll tackle this time will include sorting out the pamphlet collection. This is really valuable as many of these items are unique to commonweal and not available in many other libraries.
Tea and biccies will be provided but you’re welcome to bring more to share!
New exhibition: Drawing for Peace
A unique and fascinating glimpse at the personalities involved in 1930s politics, pacifism and the arts will be on show at Gallery II at the University of Bradford from 6 March – 3 April 2009. The exhibition shows pencil drawings made by Peggy Smith while she was working freelance for newspapers in the 1930s. Peggy Smith was a dedicated peace campaigner, who worked for the League of Nations Union in the 1920s, was one of the first women to sign the Peace Pledge in 1936, and sold Peace News on the steps of St. Martin-in-the-Fields for many years. The exhibition will be the first time most of these original sketches have been shown in public. It is curated by Alison Cullingford of Special Collections at the University. The sketches are held by the Commonweal Library and are cared for by Special Collections.
February Workday
We are holding the second of our regular Workdays on Friday February 6th from 2.00 – 8.00 pm. We will be working in Room 2.7b on Floor 2.
Please come and help us process donations and carry out various other practical library maintenance jobs. Come for as long or as short a time as you like. Any hours that you can spend with us will be much appreciated. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be on hand.
An opportunity also to meet Commonweal trustees, other Commonweal enthusiasts and learn more about the library.
A further Workday will be held on Wednesday !st April , 2 – 8pm.
Funding news!
A wide range of peace activists and organisations have donated archives to Commonweal Collection. These are now part of Special Collections at Bradford University, though their separate distinctive peace story is still very much acknowledged. We have great news: the PaxCat Project, established to catalogue these wonderful peace history resources and thereby make them available, is to receive £35k from the National Cataloguing Grants Scheme.
Commonweal Workday – Volunteers Needed!
Commonweal is holding a Workday on Monday 3rd November 10.30am-4.30pm
Please come and help us process donations and carry out various other practical library maintenance jobs. Come for as long or as short a time as you like. Any hours that you can spend with us will be much appreciated.
An opportunity also to meet Commonweal trustees, other Commonweal enthusiasts and learn more about the library.
Further Workdays will be held on Friday 6th February 2-8pm and Wednesday 1st April 2-8pm.
Welcome to the Commonweal Collection Blog
This is the new Commonweal Collection blog – designed to keep you up to date with developments and Commonweal news.
Information about Commonweal Collection can be found on our static website at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/services/commonweal/index.php
