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Exploring Archives – Read all about it
Following a successful launch on Monday, complete with cocktails known forever more as Grace Kelly’s Eyes, our exhibition Exploring Archives: We Made, You Look is ready to meet its public. Though...
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Call for participation – Will the Real Iris Murdoch Please Stand Up?
Kingston University Archives and Special Collections is delighted to announce its forthcoming collaboration with artist Carol Sommer. About the artist Within the aesthetic context of conceptual writing...
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Making an exhibition of ourselfies (and Iris Murdoch)
After a two-year delay we are thrilled to announce the opening of our new exhibition Will The Real Iris Murdoch Please Stand Up. That was then Back in Autumn 2019 the Archive held a series of workshops...
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StageCrafts
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...
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Yule (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...
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Four 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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An Accidental Exhibition
It’s c. 1956 and Iris Murdoch is thinking about a new novel. For reasons we can only guess, she picks up a pencil and her copy of The Outsider, given to her by its author Colin Wilson. Then, on the...
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Digging Deeper!
Following on from our previous blog post, we are now delving deeper into how we are using the archive collections to plan and prepare our next exciting exhibition to coincide with the start of the new...
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Lift-off for the Exhibition!
In our previous blog post Vincente Canas gave readers an overview of the plans for our new exhibition. Five weeks on, Vincente’s co-curator Christine Wise reveals all about the final outcome… About the...
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January Tales
Without knowing where the last few months of 2023 went, we’ve launched into 2024, which just so happens to be the 20th anniversary of Kingston University Archives and Special Collections. With this in...
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