Danielle McCarthy has joined the Archives & Special Collections team for a three month placement as part of her MFA in Creative Writing, here at the University of Surrey. Her work involves writing summaries of Florence Shepard’s correspondence to her husband, Ernest Shepard, during World War I to aid the discoverability of this unique material. […]
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Having heard the sad news that Geraldine Stephenson passed away on Christmas Eve, 2017, we would like to pay tribute to a truly lovely lady who we had the pleasure to know and work with. Geraldine Stephenson (born c. 1925) was one of a core group of artists and apprentices who trained with Rudolf Laban […]
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In thinking about our collections and their care for Explore Your Archive week, it struck me that the journeys items take to get to the archive are diverse. University of Surrey holds a broad array of archives and special collections, from the University’s own institutional archive, to three collections related to illustrator E H Shepard, […]
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Earlier in the year I attended an extremely interesting and informative Integrated Pest Management (IPM) course at the British Museum to learn more about how to monitor and prevent pests in museum and archive collections. The course covered how to identify pest risks, how to monitor rodent and insect activity, pest identification and how to […]
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In the archives we have collections of different sizes. Some run for shelf after shelf and contain books, papers, journals, photographs, costumes… you name it! Others are smaller, perhaps comprising some photographs, books and a small number of documents. Likewise, some of our archives represent an organisation’s or a person’s work whilst others are material […]
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Sadly, by the time you read this, I will have finished my project to catalogue the new additions to the EH Shepard Archive. I have really enjoyed the last eight weeks, so thought I would provide an update on my progress. Following a survey of the collection, I ordered archival packaging for the new items […]
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