Silver service gives way to gold standard food thanks largely to 5-star management education Question: Is food the most important ingredient in a meal? Answer: not in mid-20th century England! Historically, English food has had a mixed reputation. This is partly due to our cool-temperate climate which favours good plain produce such as meat, dairy […]
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Archives and Special Collections look after and provide access to collections of unique and rare material. These include: The institutional archive of the University of Surrey and its predecessor Battersea Polytechnic, founded in 1891 (renamed Battersea College of Technology in 1957). The archive reflects 125 years of organisational activity and records changes to academic and […]
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The online catalogue for the Dancers Anonymous Archive is now online, and the material available to researchers in the Archives Research Room. Dancers Anonymous were an independent dance company formed in 1973 and managed by Bridget Crowley, then Head of Theatre Training at Arts Educational Schools in London. The aim of Dancers Anonymous was to […]
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In 2018 I was approached by a colleague in the University Library who said “Did you know that the Library’s collection of postgraduate dissertations includes ones written by Battersea students?”. This was the start of an interesting conversation, because, although I was aware that Battersea students and staff had carried out research work, and indeed, […]
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Today we waved off the Nursing Ethics Heritage Collection to its new home in the Special Collections at University of Exeter. It is unusual in the Archives world to move a collection to a different repository unless there are exceptional reasons to do so. After much discussion, deliberation, and assessment, we agreed that University of […]
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Imagine our excitement in December when we were contacted by the Collections Officer at Winterbourne House and Garden in Birmingham to say that they had a first edition of Drawn from Life by E.H. Shepard. The book had been donated for reselling as part of their second-hand book stock but they thought it might better […]
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