New Exhibition launches today at 5pm
Exploring the theatrical world of Sheridan Morley Since the beginning of term the Archive has been working with third-year BA Graphic Design students from Kingston School of Art on a project which...
View ArticleTime flies! Less than a week left to see our exhibition…
If you haven’t yet visited our exhibition, come in from the cold and take a look at how our archive collections have inspired Kingston School of Art’s third-year BA Graphic Design students. Exploring...
View ArticlePreserving history: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Portrait of Maya Angelou. Copyright Robert Ball. Maya Angelou said ‘History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.’ As repositories of...
View ArticleClose Encounters with the Third Age
During these three months of lockdown, many people have taken the opportunity to study a new skill or perhaps dust off a long-forgotten one. We’ve been using technologies we’d never heard of before to...
View ArticleCircumventing the Censor
As part of LGBT+ History Month, this week’s blog post highlights some of the collections in our Archive which reflect how law and society affected views of homosexuality in theatre. The Lord...
View ArticleMaking a postcard out of a drama
2022 has gotten off to a very quick start for the Archive. We began the New Year preparing for our outreach project with local organisation Anstee Bridge and to date we have hosted four sessions with...
View ArticleStageCrafts
You may remember that back in January, the Archive began a series of workshops relating to the Cary Ellison Theatre Programme Collection, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Olive...
View ArticleCataloguing the Cary Ellison Theatre Programme Collection
We may have mentioned a time or two that the Archive was the fortunate recipient of a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the conservation of our Cary Ellison Theatre Programme...
View ArticleYule (B)log
There’s no present like the time… It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas so we’re taking the opportunity to reflect on the last twelve months and look ahead to 2023 – keep reading for some very...
View ArticleFour months in the Archive
Though the blog has jumped from Christmas straight into Spring, the last four months in the Archive have been packed full of activity. Getting a move on The New Year began with the long-awaited move of...
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