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  • Cataloguing the Camberwell College of Arts Slides Collection
    The thirteen boxes holding the Camberwell Student Shows Slides Collection, alongside four miscellaneous boxes, at their temporary home in the Chelsea Special Collections Room. Photograph by Madeleine Shanks

    Cataloguing the Camberwell College of Arts Slides Collection

    Madeleine Shanks shares some her recent work on the Camberwell College of Art Slide Collection

  • Gems from the “N.D.” Camerawork Archive boxes
    Slides from a workshop designed for Autoportraits (20 March – 12 April 1990), an exhibition exploring the genre of self-portraiture from the perspectives of eight Black photographers

    Gems from the “N.D.” Camerawork Archive boxes

    Assistant Archivist Erin Liu shares her recent finds from her work on the Camerawork Archive.

  • Reuse in the Barbara Saywer Archive
    Mounted Cane and Brown Cotton Placemat, from the Barbara Sawyer Collection. Two placemats which were mounted by conservation students. Archive Ref No BSY/3/3/2/5

    Reuse in the Barbara Saywer Archive

    Zoe Buckberry shares her thoughts on reuse within the Barbara Sawyer archive, and its implications for cataloguing arrangement

  • Cataloguing the Chelsea Slide Collection
    Slide reproduction of a student's degree show installation at Chelsea College of Art in 1970. D Jackson, photographer unknown, ref number CCAD/1/5/3/18

    Cataloguing the Chelsea Slide Collection

    Madeleine Shanks shares some her recent work on the Chelsea slide collection

  • UAL Student Activities Week: A Kubrick walk and a Strangelove love-in
    Film screening and archives handling event, UAL Student Activities Week, February 2023. Organised by the UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre

    UAL Student Activities Week: A Kubrick walk and a Strangelove love-in

    A report on activities organised by the UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre for Activities Week.