The Toxteth-Antioch Children's Book Archive
From 2010
This archive is made of around 200 pre-school books and teaching materials that were left in the nursery school class room of Saint Margaret Of Antioch C of E Primary School in Toxteth, Liverpool when the school was closed in 2010.
Some of the earliest books date from the 1980s and include multiple languages, such as Arabic and Somali, reflecting the diversity of the pupils of the former school.
Many of the books are directed towards learning words and shapes, rooted in a basic pedagogy but one that is infused with the complexity of language, values and ways of knowing the social and material world.