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'Work in Progress’- an opportunity to hear about current cataloguing projects – modern political papers (Charlotte McKillop-Mash: the Jenkins archive; Jeremy McIlwaine: the Conservative Party Archive)

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE BOOK, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD

Bodleian Masterclasses: Authorship, memory and manuscripts: political biography and historical resources

Co-Chaired by Professor Martin Ceadel (New College), and Professor Anne Deighton (Wolfson College)

Convenor, Helen Langley, curator of modern political papers, Bodleian Library

This year’s four seminars in the Modern Political Manuscripts series, held fortnightly during Hilary Term, explore the ways in which historians approach the writing of political biography, and how private papers become historical resources. The first two speakers will introduce documents from the Bodleian’s modern political manuscript collections before outlining the significance to their research and more generally. The second two speakers will describe archives ‘in transition’.

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