As well as looking after 100 collections of rare books and unique primary sources the Archives and Special Collections team have responsibility for the University’s Art Collection. Over the last year our Art Collection Audit Officer David Wootton has not only been working hard to audit and catalogue the collection, but he has also been […]
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28 April 2023 marks 100 years since the birth of Warren Lamb – dancer, movement theorist and management consultant. To mark the occasion, we have released the first set of catalogued records from the Archive to our online catalogue, making part of this fantastic collection accessible to the public for the first time. The Archives […]
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In the International Women’s Day blog we posted yesterday we looked at some of the key events in the life of artist Eilean Pearcey. In our second blog Art Collection Audit Officer David Wootton looks at Eilean’s highly significant work in the depiction of Indian dance. Eilean Pearcey and her images of Indian Dance As […]
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The life and work of Eilean Pearcey To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day we have taken the opportunity to highlight the life and work of the artist Eilean Pearcey (1901–1999). We are lucky that we hold both Eilean’s archive of papers and drawings, as well as artworks created by her that she donated to […]
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The theme of this year’s LGBT+ History Month is ‘Behind the Lens’ which invites us to celebrate the influence and impact of LGBT+ individuals to film and cinema from behind the camera rather than in front of it. This topic gives us the ideal opportunity to share material from our extensive dance collections. For this […]
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In January we welcomed our new Archivist Simon Mackley to the Archives & Special Collections Team. In this blog post, Simon introduces himself and looks back on his first month working here. I am delighted to be starting as the new Archivist at the University of Surrey Archives, and I have really enjoyed my first […]
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