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New Acquisitions

If you work - or have worked - in British film or television, have kept records of your career over the years, such as scripts, letters, business papers, or ephemera, and are now looking for a home for such material, we would like to hear from you! Your archives will join those of Joseph Losey, Sir David Lean, Powell and Pressburger, Derek Jarman, Sir Michael Balcon, Lord David Puttnam, John Schlesinger, Troy Kennedy Martin, John McGrath, and many, many others, to be catalogued, preserved and made available to the media students and historians of today and tomorrow. Just contact us with the details.

Acquisitions in 2010

Collections acquired in 2010 include:

  • Ken Annakin, director (1914-2009)
    Working papers.
  • Jack Clayton, director (1921-1995)
    Scripts, working papers, correspondence.
  • Ralph Cooper, publicist (1913-1996)
    Correspondence, working papers, diaries.
  • Peter Coulson, editor
    Scripts.
  • Sir David Cunynghame, producer (1905-1978)
    Additional papers.
  • Deborah Kerr, actress (1921-2007)
    Scrapbook on Merle Oberon.
  • Richard Lester, director (b. 1932)
    Scripts, working papers, correspondence.
  • Jonathan Lewis, producer, director (b.1949)
    Working papers and scripts.
  • Matthew Nathan, filmmaker (1907-1990)
    Correspondence, scripts and contracts.
  • Peter Noble, producer, screenwriter, critic (1917-1997)
    Scrapbooks.
  • Catherine O'Brien, publicist (1916-2005)
    Correspondence, working papers, publicity materials, scrapbooks.
  • Peter Pickering, director, screenwriter, editor (b. 1924)
    Working papers.
  • Michael Relph, producer, director, screenwriter, art director (1915-2004)
    Correspondence and scripts.
  • Simon Relph, producer, director (b. 1940)
    Additional papers.
  • Mark Shivas, producer (1938-2008)
    Additional papers.
  • Peter Wollen, academic, filmmaker (b. 1938)
    Working papers, scripts, correspondence.

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Last Updated: 28 Apr 2011