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The seminar below (which was scheduled for tomorrow evening) has been cancelled due to the poor weather conditions. We hope to reschedule the talk for later this year.

 

ARCHIVES FOR LONDON

March Seminar - Saved from a skip and selected in a Swiss chateau: the curious journeys of archive collections at the Charles Dickens Museum (Speaker: Louisa Price)

 

At our next seminar on Thursday 1st March, Curator Louisa Price will talk about the collections held by the Charles Dickens Museum, the world’s most comprehensive repository of Dickens-related material and the author’s former home.

 

Louisa will give a background to its holdings and share highlights from the archives, ranging from Dickens’s legal papers and family letters to the centenary events of 2012. The archive holdings comprise many individual collections amassed by Dickensian researchers and collectors – many of whom knew each other and the Museum. Louisa will use the second half of her talk to examine the collections’ trajectories, explaining how they came to be in the Museum, the impact of their journeys on what is and isn’t held and on what is known about the material.

 

Formerly Assistant Curator at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Louisa has a wealth of previous museum experience including work for the Geffrye Museum and for social history museums in New Zealand and Australia. At the Charles Dickens Museum she is responsible for the Grade 1 listed property, the Museum’s collections of art, furniture and archive material and for its library.

 

How to book: Advance booking is essential. Please book your place through Eventbrite http://tinyurl.com/AfLevents or by telephoning 020 7332 3879.

Cost: Free for AfL members, non-members £6. Refreshments provided.

Date and Time: Thursday 1st March 2018: 18.00 – 19.30 (doors open 17.30)

Location: Huntley Room at London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB

 

For more information about Archives for London, please see our website: https://archivesforlondon.org/

 

 

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