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Peter O’Toole in rehearsal for Uncle Vanya at Bristol Old Vic, 1973.

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Peter O’Toole in rehearsal for Uncle Vanya at Bristol Old Vic, 1973. Photographer: Derek Balmer. Refno: BOV/3/2/407/6

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Top level collections

Audrey Noble Archive

1933 - 2016

Arnold Ridley Archive

1915 - 1984

Forse Menez Archive

1766 - 2015

Patrick Robertson and Rosemary Vercoe Design Archive

1950s - 2000s

Digital copies of letters from Oliver Messel to Thomas Messel

1972-1977 [digital copies created in 2017]

Mary & Colin McFadyean Collection of Macready family Correspondence

19th Century

Derek Balmer Photographic Archive

1963 - 1985

Records of DV8

c.1986-2022

Frederick Crooke Archive

1908 - 1991

Herbert Beerbohm Tree Archive

1888 - 1974

Records of New Moves International Ltd., incorporating the archives of the National Review of Live Art and 'New Moves...' dance festivals

1984-2011

The Personal Papers of Oliver Messel

1920s-1978

Old Vic (London) Archive

1818 - 1963

Richard Southern Archive

1903 - 1989

Royal Theatrical Fund Archive

1839 -

Rodney West Archive

1784 - 2001

Manolo Santos Archive

c.1950s - 1990s

T. Edgar Pemberton Lantern Slide Collection

1901 - 1902

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