6 APRIL 2020
Literature in Lockdown - 2
As London settles into a period of restricted movement, we look at some documents from the Stationers' Company Archive, which show us how writers, printers and publishers have responded to similar crises over history.
Here we discuss the publication of Shakespeare's long poem Venus and Adonis.
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Literature in Lockdown - 1
As London settles into a period of restricted movement, we look at some documents from the Stationers' Company Archive, which show us how writers, printers and publishers have responded to similar crises over history.
We start with the publication history of Shakespeare's King Lear.
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Acclaimed folk musicians Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmons visited the Stationers' Company Archive last week, and were thrilled to discover the original registration, in the seventeenth-century, of a song which they have recently recorded. Read more here.
5 DECEMBER 2019
In November we were delighted to host two visits to the Archive for students at the University of Greenwich. Our Archivist, Dr Ruth Frendo has written about the visits which it is hoped will be the first of many and you can read her full report here.
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Yesterday three members of the staff from the Bodleian Library joined a guided tour of Stationers' Hall and the Church of St Martin- within-Ludgate. They also saw some of the documents in the Stationers' Company Archive which record the long association between their Library and the Company.
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Christmas came early to the Archive today in the form of the donation by Mr Kent Robinson of a miniature almanac dating from 1768.
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