Early January tends to be a quiet time in the searchroom – are all you researchers recovering from the holiday period? So the team took the opportunity this year to focus on some larger collections which are difficult to work on whilst the searchroom is open and our normal activities are going on.

Collections need sorting, repackaging and cataloguing to be accessible for your research, and often a large amount of space and time is needed for this.

During January this year the team finished off the Hopkinsons’ Ltd archive and made a start on sorting and surveying Sir Patrick Stewart’s archive, received during 2017.