Category Archives: Behind the Scenes

Kingston University Photographs

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Dayna Miller

This extensive collection covers events which have taken place in and around the University since the 1910s; from Gipsy Hill Teaching College, Kingston Technical College and Kingston Polytechnic to Kingston University as we know it today. These include photographs of … Continue reading →

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Theatre Collections

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Dayna Miller

The Brian Smith Theatre Programme Collection Brian Smith was an avid theatregoer who kept the programme for every show he attended. Brian organised the programmes alphabetically by theatre and that is how they remain ordered in the archive. It is … Continue reading →

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Knights Park Special Collections – update on progress

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Katrina Clifford

I didn’t think I’d have much to say yet as it seems like I’ve spent a long time reading and planning rather than cataloguing. But the more I think about it, that’s probably pretty important – the last thing I … Continue reading →

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Transcription Work on Iris Murdoch’s Letters

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Katie Giles

For anyone visiting the Archives and Special Collections recently, there is a good chance that they would have come across someone hard at work transcribing some of the many letters we hold by Iris Murdoch.  The letters that Murdoch wrote … Continue reading →

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Keeping it in Context- Why the History behind Archival Collections is so important

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Katie Giles

When anyone first starts looking into Archives, one word that keeps cropping up is context.  It’s the reason why archival catalogues (including our own) look the way they do- linking records together and displaying in a family tree style or … Continue reading →

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Knights Park Special Collection projects

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Katrina Clifford

The Special Collections room in the Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll Centre at our Knights Park campus houses a wide range of books relating to the varied nature of Art, Design and Architecture courses taught at Kingston. Ranging in date from the … Continue reading →

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Items now returned from the Conservator

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Katie Giles

In January we announced that a number of items from our Collections had to be sent away for vital conservation work, and therefore were not available to researchers.  We are delighted to announce that all the items have now returned from … Continue reading →

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Conversations about Conservation

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Katie Giles

One of the core aims of any Archive service is to preserve its Collections for future generations of users, and as such we take a number of measures to ensure that our Collections will be available for years to come.  … Continue reading →

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‘So Why Am I Using a Pencil?’- Guidelines for using the Archives and Special Collections- and why they’re there

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Katie Giles

Many of the researchers we have at Kingston University Archives and Special Collections are using Archives for the first time.  We always ask new users to agree to our guidelines for use of the Archives- however many do not understand … Continue reading →

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