A writer’s war: the correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers
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by Eleanor Dickens
5M ago
We take a look at the wartime correspondence of the writer, Dorothy L. Sayers, with cataloguing manager, Michael St John-McAlister. The first thing that strikes you about Dorothy L Sayers’s wartime correspondence is the sheer volume of it. The paper shortage seems to have passed both her and her correspondents ..read more
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Re-reading Ted Hughes' Lupercal
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by Eleanor Dickens
5M ago
Ted Hughes, copyright Caroline Forbes On the 7th November the British Library will host an event that celebrates and explores Ted Hughes’ second poetry collection, Lupercal. Published in 1960 when Hughes was only thirty Lupercal contains some of the poet’s best-known poems including ‘Hawk-Roosting’, ‘Pike’ and ‘Mayday in Holderness’. In ..read more
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For Their Eyes Only – the letters of Ian and Ann Fleming
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by Eleanor Dickens
6M ago
We mark the exciting acquisition of a collection of letters between Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, and his wife Ann. Unlike Ann Fleming, who has had a whole volume of her correspondence published, Ian Fleming was not a habitual letter writer. So the British Library was delighted to be ..read more
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Phantom of the Archive: Reaching Beyond the Material in the Theatre Royal Archive
British Library - English and Drama blog
by Eleanor Dickens
7M ago
With cataloguing underway on the archive of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, manuscripts cataloguer, Cameron Randall, reflects on the process and the presence of its previous archivist Murray Melvin. Working as a Manuscripts Cataloguer, I feel lucky that I can arrive at work each day with the possibility of being ..read more
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Ted Hughes’s Expressionism: Visionary Subjectivity
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by Eleanor Dickens
7M ago
Dr Steve Ely, senior lecturer in creative writing at The University of Huddersfield, discusses their research on the work of the poet Ted Hughes. Ted Hughes by Fay Godwin © British Library Board In 2022 I was awarded an AHRC grant to complete a two-year programme of research entitled Ted ..read more
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Andrew Salkey Archive – Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Letters
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by Eleanor Dickens
11M ago
Natalie Lucy talks about their project mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through the letters of Andrew Salkey. I am a PhD student at UCL. I started a part-time placement at the British Library in September which finished at the end of February. I was supervised by Eleanor Casson, who, until recently ..read more
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The William Maskell Chapbook Collection
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by Eleanor Dickens
11M ago
In 2022, the British Library received a selection of rare books and manuscripts from the Honresfield Library, originally collected by industrialist William Law (1836–1901). This collection was purchased by the Friends of the National Libraries and shared across a number of UK institutions. The Honresfield Library contains several items of ..read more
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Randall Couch's 'Peal' and other literary bells
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by Eleanor Dickens
11M ago
This weekend, bells in towers up and down the country will be ringing to mark the Coronation of King Charles III. Since the Coronation was announced there has been a concerted effort, ‘the ‘Ring for the King’ campaign, aimed at recruiting new ringers to learn the fascinating and absorbing hobby ..read more
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Jane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath
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by Eleanor Dickens
1y ago
Running now for its second year, the British Library and National Trust have collaboratively designed a doctoral fellowship programme which aims to examine the connections between each organisation’s collections. Starting in January 2023, I have had the pleasure of taking the role of Doctoral Fellow on a project which examines ..read more
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In Memory of Murray Melvin
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by Eleanor Dickens
1y ago
We were very saddened last week to learn of the death of the actor, director and archivist, Murray Melvin (1932-2023) on the 14th April. Murray had a long association with the Library over a number of years and we were always grateful to him for sharing his knowledge and reminiscences ..read more
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