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Widening the Arc of
Friendship
Exploring the letters from Iris
Murdoch to Philippa Foot with the
Local Community
Katie Giles and Frances White
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Kingston University Archives and
Special Collections
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Iris Murdoch Collections at
Kingston University Archives
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Shift in C21st archive theory
we
are
what
we
KEEP …
we
are
what
we
USE …
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‘Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot:
an Arc of Friendship’
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Project team:
Project Co-ordinator: Dr Anne Rowe
Project Officer: Dr Frances White
Archivist: Katie Giles
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Project participants came from:
Adults with Learning Difficulties, Kingston
Age Concern Kingston at the Bradbury Centre
Kingston Carers
Kingston LGBT Forum
Mind in Kingston
Reading Groups
Surbiton High School
The Tiffin Girls’ School
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Age range: 10 – 83 years
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Project activities:
Archive visits
Discussion groups
Film viewings of Richard Eyre’s Iris
London walks: Westminster and St James’s
National Gallery & National Portrait Gallery
Creative response workshops
Exhibitions
Talks
Story-telling performances
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Project Span and Support:
May 2012-July 2013
The letters arrived on
30th April 2012 in this
red canvas bag
It became an iconic
symbol for the project
Cost of letters £50,000
Total grant £107,000
from the National
Lottery through the
Heritage Lottery Fund
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Spread of Letters from Iris Murdoch to
Philippa Foot
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Airmail letters from Iris Murdoch to Philippa
Foot
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Postcards from Iris Murdoch to Philippa Foot
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KUAS100/1/1
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KUAS100/4/50
A
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KUAS100/1/38- The Dog of Happiness
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Transcribers working on the letters
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Transcribers working on the letters
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Group discussion in the Archive
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Group discussion at Kingston Library
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School Visit to the Archive
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School Visit to the Archive
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aSchool Visit to the Archive
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aSchool Visit to the Archive
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A memorable day in the archive
… with adults with
learning difficulties in
Kingston
facilitated by HFT
and Fran O’Brien of
Yadapa
www.yadapa.com
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aVisit to the Archive
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aVisit to the Archive
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aVisit to the Archive
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aReceiving their certificates of participation
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Certificate of Participation
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Lessons Learnt
How to pitch talks on the Archive to a
range of audiences
Be creative in thinking of ways to get
community groups involved
Work with experts
Feel the fear… but do it anyway!
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Contact us:
Frances White:
Katie Giles: [email protected]
KU Archives: [email protected]
KU Archives Blog:
http://blogs.kingston.ac.uk/asc
Iris Murdoch Archives Project:
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/iris-
murdoch/
