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Academic/historian	Description
Brown, Shirley	Archive of the Bristol-based writer Shirley Brown, active from the 1970s onward. Includes papers relating to her career as a freelance writer, and her collection of material relating to theatre in general.
Barker, Kathleen	This archive is the cumulation of 30 years of extensive research into provincial entertainment by the theatre historian, Dr Kathleen Barker (1925 - 1991). It includes the research material she assembled while writing her authoritative history of the Theatre Royal, Bristol, from 1766 to 1966.
Joseph, Tony	Tony Joseph was a lifelong fan of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and wrote about Gilbert and Sullivan and the D’Oyly Carte company and its casts, as both an historian and an amateur dramatist.
Rowell, George	George Rowell (d. 2001) was a British theatre historian and a lecturer in the University of Bristol Drama Department from the 1950s. This collection includes his research materials on Victorian melodrama and the theatre of Henry Irving, W. S. Gilbert (Gilbert & Sullivan), Oscar Wilde and Arthur Wing Pinero.
Southern, Richard	Richard Southern (1903 - 1989) was a theatre designer, academic, researcher and prolific collector. His collection is an important visual resource, particularly strong in the areas of theatre architecture and backstage information.
Wickham, Glynne	Professor Glynne Wickham (1922 - 2004) was a senior member of the Bristol University Drama Department from 1948 - 2002, and an internationally renowned scholar in the field of medieval drama. This archive reflects his research, work and interests and include his designs for costumes and scenery.