Part 3: Mr Elf In our third ‘What’s In The Box?’ blog for this year’s Heritage Open Days Festival, we are continuing the theme of ‘Creativity Unwrapped’ and looking at the last of the featured items from our Natural Movement Archive. Mr Elf (Ref: NM/O/3) was used by Madge Atkinson (the founder of Natural Movement) […]
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Part 2: Theatrical script book and autograph book In our second ‘What’s In The Box?’ blog for this year’s Heritage Open Days Festival, we are continuing the theme of ‘Creativity Unwrapped’ and looking at some of items that belonged to actor James H. Atkinson. James was the father of Madge Atkinson, whose costumes we looked […]
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Part 1: Costumes The theme of this year’s Heritage Open Days Festival is ‘Creativity Unwrapped’ which provides us with the perfect excuse to take some time out and admire some of the beautiful items we have in our collections and share them more widely. For the first of our ‘What’s In The Box?’ blogs we […]
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As part of our Heritage Open Days offering this year, our Archives & Special Collection team hosted a special public event showcasing some of the treasures from the E.H. Shepard Archive. In this blog post our Principal Archivist Rachel White writes about some of the highlights of the day’s events – so if you couldn’t […]
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As part of our offering for Heritage Open Days 2023, University of Surrey Archives & Special Collections are excited to launch our new Heritage and Sculpture Trail. The theme for this year’s Heritage Open Days is Creativity Unwrapped, and with this new self-guided walking trail we want to showcase some of the highlights of the […]
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In July we welcomed our new Principal Archivist Rachel White to the Archives & Special Collections Team. In this blog post, Rachel looks back on her first few weeks here. I’ve been excited to join the University of Surrey’s Archives and Special Collections team this summer and thought that I’d share some of the things […]
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