Press coverage


Royal Society of Literature – Spring 2008

Lord Howarth writes to The Times on 14 December 2007 explaining how our tax proposals would provide incentives for authors to approach UK institutions when selling their archives.

In The Author, Jamie Andrews reflects on the Working Group's activities during the year.

The British Library’s acquisition of the archive of Harold Pinter in December 2007 was covered in the Guardian, Independent, The Times, Daily Telegraph and Jamie Andrews was interviewed on R4's Front Row, 11 December 2007.

Andrew Motion in the Independent on Sunday on 1 July reiterates the call for tax incentives.

An article in The New Yorker on 11 June considers the question 'Why do the archives of so many great writers end up in Texas?'

Jamie Andrews responds to the article in a letter published in The New Yorker of July 9 and 16 2007. In his blog 'Accessible Archives and Escaping the Black Hole' he explores the subject further.

‘History in the Trash?’
Rob Blackhurst in The Financial Times, 16 March 2007
Article on archiving of email and other e-records. Includes interviews with Jeremy John, Curator of e-manuscripts at the British Library, and with Richard Ovenden at the Bodleian Library.

Saving writers' manuscripts for the nation, Andrew Motion in Times Literary Supplement, 4 October 2006.


'Special Collections'
Brenda Maddox in The Guardian, 28 October 2006

'Holding on to our heritage'
John Sutherland in The Guardian, 13 October 2006


'Daylight Lottery'
Sara Waterson in Rare Book Review, December 2006


'E-Manuscripts: How authors can ensure the longevity of their digital archives'
Chris Fletcher in The Author, Winter 2005


Articles published in The Times Literary Supplement and The Times Higher can be accessed online by subscription only:

Death and Texas, Michael Caines in The Times Literary Supplement, 27 October 2006, p.15

Ronald Schuchard’s talk at the Manuscripts Matter conference, on the value of manuscripts to undergraduates, is published in The Times Higher, 1 December 2006, p.17.

Nicolas Barker, ‘What price our literary heritage?’, in TLS, 21 June 2006 William Rees-Mogg, referred to Nicolas Barker’s article in The Times, 26 June 2006.

Erica Wagner, just before the Manuscripts Matter conference, discussed ‘Do writers belong to the country - or the world?’, The Times, 14 October 2006

Andrew Motion. Draft of ‘Letter to an Exile’ from Motion’s first collection The Pleasure Steamers (1978). Reproduced by kind permission of Andrew Motion.