To celebrate National Illustration Day, Project Archivist (E.H. Shepard Collections) Hollie Piff explores the creative process behind E.H. Shepard’s illustrations for Everybody’s Pepys, Everybody’s Boswell, and Everybody’s Lamb. From perfecting the proportions of the human figure to accurately drawing trees and landmarks, observational studies were often the first steps in E.H. Shepard’s artistic process. So, […]
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The first Thursday of November is World Digital Preservation Day – raising awareness of the need to preserve our born-digital cultural heritage, and celebrating the work carried out by heritage professionals around the world to achieve this goal. To mark the occasion, our Archivist Simon Mackley reflects on why it is exactly that we seek […]
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In August, we welcomed Hollie Piff to the Archives and Special Collections as Project Archivist for the E.H. Shepard Collections. In this blog post, she will be reflecting on the first six weeks of her new role. The last six weeks have been an exciting whirlwind of meeting new people, exploring the Stag Hill campus […]
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The first Thursday of November is World Digital Preservation Day – a celebration of all the efforts across the world to preserve our digital heritage. To mark the occasion our archivist Simon Mackley looks at how the different facets of our University of Surrey community – our students, our staff, and our alumni – are […]
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Last month the Archives and Records Association held their annual conference in Birmingham, bringing together archivists, records managers and conservators from across Britain and Ireland. The focus of the conference this year was ‘Climate and Crisis’, addressing important questions about the sustainability of the sector and the role of archives in tackling climate change. In […]
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South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM) runs every year from the 18th July to the 17th August to commemorate, mark and celebrate South Asian cultures, histories and communities. To celebrate SAHM we are delighted to be able to share some photographs from our Natural Movement collection which were taken 70 years ago, in August 1954. Natural […]
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