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Born in 1891, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies enjoyed an illustrious theatrical career, which saw her working with some of the UK’s leading actors and companies throughout the twentieth century.

Elaine Feinstein's archive embraces the whole range of her literary output: poetry, fiction, prose, criticism, biography, translation and drama.

Gwyneth Lewis is the first National Poet of Wales. This material includes her earliest poems and writings and documents her development as a writer, up until the mid 1980s.

Hugo Williams’ archive consists of the manuscripts of all his writing in poetry and prose: twelve volumes of poetry, two travel books and his journalism for the ‘Freelance’ column in The Times Lite

The purchase of this substantial archive relating to John William Dunne (1875-1949) was a major priority for the Science Museum.

John Blakemore, Emeritus Professor of Photography at the University of Derby, is a world-renowned artist/photographer whose work encompassing a wealth of aspects from landscape and portraits to sup

Miss Catherine McMahon writes: In 2010, the British Library acquired the archive of  Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) with generous support from Friends of the National Libraries

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is an outstanding figure in post-1945 British and world theatre.

A previously unknown archive of the late Poet Laureate, comprising over 200 files and boxes of manuscripts, letters and diaries, including material relating to Birthday Letters, published in 1998,