This blog features current projects related to our modern theatre collections.
Cataloguing of the archive of the influential play agent Peggy Ramsay is now underway. The archive will be available for research from autumn 2010 but this blog and the accompanying Twitter feed will highlight interesting finds as and when they are discovered. We hope to give an insight into the challenges facing an archivist as they strive to bring order to a pile of files and boxes.
The archive of Margaret Ramsay Ltd, play agent, is currently filling 50 large boxes. The bulk is client files and correspondence with key figures in the theatre industry from the 1950s to 1992. It also contains press cuttings, records of scripts received, appointment diaries, gifts from clients, financial ledgers and statements, contracts, stage licences and a small collection of photographs and audio recordings.
The blog will be written by Zoë Wilcox, cataloguing archivist for the Peggy Ramsay Archive, but will also feature postings from other members of the curatorial team, including Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts.
If you knew Peggy Ramsay or any of her clients, we would love to hear your stories. Please get in touch.
Those interested in the archive of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, can also access previous blog posts from cataloguer Kate O’Brien. The Pinter archive comprises over 150 boxes of manuscripts, scrapbooks, letters, photographs, programmes, and emails. Cataloguing is now complete and the Pinter archive is open for research.
Further details about the Archive can be found on our recent acquisitions page
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