• ARCHIVE LED TEACHING
  • EVENTS
  • STUDENT PLACEMENTS
  • ENQUIRIES - TOPICS AND THEMES 
  • STATISTICS - VISITS AND ENQUIRIES

ARCHIVE LED TEACHING

School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
  • Crime Writing MA, residential, 9 September. 12 students (synchronous/live remote session). Students enjoyed privileged access to the embargoed archive of Lee Child and discussed Child’s drafting and editing of the first Jack Reacher novel, Killing Floor, drawing on original manuscript drafts and editorial feedback from his literary agent and American publisher (Justine Mann and Nathan Ashman)
  • Postgraduate Induction, 29 September. 42 students (in person). Students were introduced to the literary collections in the British Archive for Contemporary Writing by Archivist, Justine Mann. Academic Director, Dr Jeremy Noel-Tod, highlighted the rewards and challenges of academic research using archives. 
  • Undergraduate Creative Writers, w/c 24 October. 17 students accessed the Sara Taylor Archive to trace the drafting and editorial process of a short story, from first draft to its eventual publication as a chapter in her debut novel, The Shore. (Kate Moorhead Kuhn)
School of Art, Media and American Studies

Documentary Module Session, 14 October. 14 students (in person) This session took students behind the scenes of BBC documentary ‘The Bombs that Changed Britain’ which was filmed at UEA and which drew heavily on the archive (held at UEA) of Solly Zuckerman, Chief Scientific Adviser. Students accessed the original material that helped to develop the structure and narrative of the programme and were given insights by documentary research assistant, Rosie Potter. (Justine Mann)

Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies

Feminist Research Methods Seminar, 19 & 21 October. 24 students (in person). MA Gender Studies students were introduced to UEA Archives and Special Collections and worked hands on with digitised archive material to consider how feminist research methodologies and theories can be applied to archival material. The collections accessed included unique and original material from the writers Nadine Gordimer, Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing and Kate Mosse as well as correspondence between leading suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst and Jessie Kenney. (Justine Mann)

EVENTS

  • As part of the Norwich Science Festival, the Future and Form work, ‘Where do Stories Come From?’ was made available online and promoted within the Foyer of Norwich Forum, where other UEA activity took place. The work has also been added to all Norfolk Library and Information Service PCs.

 

  • The Future and Form Writing Prize 2021 – linked to ‘Where do Stories Come From?’ was also launched with a deadline of 22 November and details were circulated via Outreach and Norfolk County Council to all schools and sixth forms. 

 

STUDENT PLACEMENTS

Chase funded student placement, Andrew Kenrick, who is currently working as a Future and Form Legacy Co-ordinator, gathering qualitative and quantitative usage data and assisting with the archiving of the project. 

Claire Reiderman joined BACW for what is her third remote internship, connected to the Future and Form project. Her role is Communications Assistant, actively promoting ‘Where do Stories Come From?’ to schools, colleges, universities (UK, US and Canada) and to adult education groups. Claire has also prepared workshop packs and flyers for schools to use and these are being shared online via UEA’s ‘Ever Wondered?’ Website: UEA - Resource Centre

ENQUIRIES - TOPICS AND THEMES 

BACW COLLECTIONS

CHARLES PICK the ‘Pickles’ editions (publishing) DORIS LESSING correspondence SARA TAYLOR manuscripts

OTHER COLLECTIONS

GENERAL collaborating couples G.S. CALLENDAR photo for research publication KENNEY PAPERS women in local politics 1910-20; suffragette’s arboretum PRITCHARD PAPERS image supply for: The Real and the Romantics: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding (2022); Gerald Summer’s trolley in birch plywood ZUCKERMAN ARCHIVE PhD proposal visit utilising WWII school essays; SZ as a key figure at the University of Birmingham (for Commonwealth Games exhibition, Birmingham, 2022); fragmentation of warheads; Empire Air Armament School.

STATISTICS - VISITS & ENQUIRIES

Special Collections: 10 (3 remote)
Archives: 137 (35 remote)