Welcome to Explore Your Archive week on the University of Surrey Archives & Special Collections Blog! This week the team will be posting everyday on all things archival, from how we obtain, catalogue and package our collections, to how we continue to care for our collections regarding preservation, house keeping and pest management. Aside from blogging, […]
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Explore Your Archive (which runs 18th-26th November 2017) is a national campaign delivered by The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association to promote, publicise and celebrate archives and special collections across the UK. (http://www.exploreyourarchive.org/ ) As part of the Explore your Archive week, the University of Surrey Archives & Special Collections team will […]
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The Art of Winnie-the-Pooh – Talk and book signing On Thursday 19th October between 6.30 – 7.30 pm, University of Surrey’s Archives & Special Collections will be hosting a talk and book signing by James Campbell, Chair of The Shepard Trust, based on his newly published book The Art of Winnie-the-Pooh. It will be an opportunity […]
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Publishing house Egmont UK Ltd contacted the University of Surrey Archives & Special Collections team a little while ago to offer deposit of their hand-coloured E.H. Shepard illustrations on long-term loan. The team at Surrey were delighted, seeing the huge potential of this collection, and, following some negotiation, accepted the collection into the archives this […]
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This past Saturday (9th September) the Archives & Special Collections hosted an open day as part of the national Heritage Open Days events, offering a glimpse of just some of our diverse collections and a behind the scenes tour of our stores. Armed with bunting and balloons galore we had a great time decorating the outside of […]
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Over the past few months, the Archives & Special Collections team have been busy preparing for materials from the E H Shepard Archive and The Shepard Trust Archive to be dispatched to Holland for an exhibition. Working with House of Illustration, London and The Shepard Trust, an exhibition has been mounted at Museum Huis Doorn, […]
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