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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Raymond Williams Archive catalog now online from Swansea University

Swansea University now has an online catalogue for its Raymond Williams Collection.  The archive is held at their Richard Burton Archives at http://archives.swan.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=WWE%2f2


Raymond Williams bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Williams

Title   
     Raymond Williams Collection
Description
The collection consists of notebooks; manuscripts and typescripts of original, amended and final versions of novels, dramatic works, poetry and academic writings, as well as juvenilia; correspondence (letters re professional - academic and publishing - and family matters); TwentyOne (weekly paper of the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment); The University Journal (weekly paper of Cambridge University); published reviews, lectures and articles, including newspaper cuttings; research notes; photographs; family papers e.g. diaries, school reports, financial papers, property and probate; obituaries and letters of condolence; publications and journals.

Subjects: culture, politics, communications, media, literature, drama, criticism, sociology, language, technology, history, war and 'The Bomb', class (particularly working class), education (particularly adult education: Open University, Workers' Educational Association), region and geography, Cambridge and academia.

Majority in English, with a small number of documents (articles, publications and occasional letter) in other languages

For a biography of Raymond Williams see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and 'Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale' by Dai Smith (2008).

Bibliographies of Raymond Williams' work can be found in 'Raymond Williams: Writing, Culture, Politics' by Alan O'Connor (1989) and 'A Bibliographical Guide to Twenty-Four Anglo-Welsh Writers' by John Harris (1994).

The Raymond Williams collection has been catalogued courtesy of funding from the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust.
Date     [early 20th century - early 21st century; mostly 1940s-1980s]
Subject     English Literature--Welsh authors--20th century