George Clutterbuck’s poem was developed out of a workshop held at the University of Sussex on 16th September. In the workshop, called ‘Lost Letters’, writers produced new creative works using selected prints from the British Museum’s Dalziel Archive, especially pictorial initials that, within the archive, had become separated from their original texts. Life is all marked out in lines © George…
Heads, Shoulders and Whole Lengths, by Hannah Field, responds to the Dalziel image pictured below, an illustration for ‘To make dancing dolls’ from Laura Valentine’s The Home Book of Pleasure and Instruction, published in 1867 (see image 11 of Design in our exhibition). This piece was developed out of panel talks on the Dalziel Archive at the…
Camilla Bostock’s new work Word Hoard was developed out of a workshop held at the University of Sussex on 16th September. In the workshop, called ‘Lost Letters’, writers produced new creative works using selected prints from the British Museum’s Dalziel Archive, especially pictorial initials that, within the archive, had become separated from their original texts. To view Word Hoard, click on the first…
Launch event ~ virtual exhibition ~ Alice to Alice: Dalziel 1865 -1871. With talks by Hannah Field, George Mind, Nicholas Royle, Isabel Seligman, Lindsay Smith and Bethan Stevens. At the University of Sussex, Digital Humanities Lab, and online at www.sussex.ac.uk/English/Dalziel
Lost Letters: a creative writing workshop on wood engraving and the archive, led by Bethan Stevens. University of Sussex, School of English. Extracts from the workshop were selected and read at our exhibition exhibition launch by Isabel Seligman (British Museum).
Bethan Stevens, ‘Medium and the Archive (Victorian Wood Engravings, for example)’ at BAVS Talks 2016,University of Sussex, .
Bethan Stevens, ‘The Wood-Engraver’s Self-Portrait: The Dalziel Brothers 1839-1893’ at Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, 23rd February 2016