New blog post about the Bourke family papers

Read our latest blog about the newly catalogued Bourke family papers by Project Archivist, Ella Pendleton. Ella writes about the process of cataloguing the collection, which contains around 1,700 letters written and received by Annie Bourke (1843-1919, actress), her sister Antonia Jane Belinda Bourke (1840-1919, actress), their mother Mary Anne Bourke (c. 1819-1892), and the sisters’ cousin Eva Watson (1852-1897, actress): The Bourke burlesque actresses: life on and off ‘the wretched stage’ – University of Bristol Theatre Collection Blog