National Art Library children's literature collections
The National Art Library has been collecting children's publications since the mid-19th century. It now holds nearly 100,000 books dating from the 16th century to the prese…
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Comics Resident: Karen Rubins
Karen Rubins was Comics Resident at the V&A, July–December 2009.
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Children's literature study guide
Recommended resources for the study of children's literature
Read articleThe Anne and Fernand Renier collection of children’s books
The Renier collection of children’s books ranges from works by Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Hans Christian Andersen, to diaries and school records, doll dressing books …
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Miniature libraries from the Children's Books Collections
John Marshall began publishing miniature libraries for children in 1800. Confident, perhaps, that his innovation would galvanise the children's book market, he produced his…
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Dictionary of Children's Clothes: 1700s to Present
Over the last 300 years, children's clothing has witnessed a gradual shift from dressing children to adult requirements, in multiple layers and formal…
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Tue 15 October 2013 11:00
The Museum and Study Collection at Central Saint Martins has been more than a century in the making and includes illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, type designs by Johnston and Gill, twentieth-century textiles and work by more recent graduates such as John Galliano and Alexander McQueen.
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