Attendance at SLA Girona meeting

Posted on 9 August 2014 by David Sutton

I have received quite a few apologies from SLA members for our Girona meeting. Can you let me know if you are intending to be present (d.c.sutton@reading.ac.uk). Thank you. David. Original post follows: The next meeting of SLA will be … Continue reading →

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A website called “I love SLA”

Posted on 8 August 2014 by David Sutton

The next time a group of SLA members is in Amsterdam, we must visit the SLA restaurant. See http://ilovesla.com/en/menu. And thanks to Kenth Sjöblom (Michelin-starred Chair of SPO) for the reference.

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Spies in the archives, archives in spy novels

Posted on 8 August 2014 by David Sutton

Bryan Corbett, webmaster of ICA, recommends this article to SLA members: ‘Of Plots, Secrets, Burrowers and Moles: Archives in Espionage Fiction’, in Archivaria, issue number 9. Here’s how to access it: Visit http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/issue/archive, scroll down through the issues, click on … Continue reading →

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PhD in Literary Archives opportunity

Posted on 8 August 2014 by David Sutton

PLEASE CIRCULATE TO RELEVANT NETWORKS AND QUALIFIED CANDIDATES PhD scholarships are available to suitably qualified international candidates for study at the University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA. I am keen to hear directly from prospective candidates interested in pursuing topics in the … Continue reading →

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Next meeting / Prochaine réunion, 12 Oct 2014

Posted on 31 March 2014 by David Sutton

La prochaine réunion de la SLA aura lieu dans le cadre des réunions préliminaires de la Conférence annuelle de l’ICA à Gérone, le dimanche 12 octobre 2014, de 14h30 à 16h30.  La réunion comprendra une présentation et un rapport d’étape … Continue reading →

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Meeting in Brussels, 22 November 2013: informal only

Posted on 13 November 2013 by David Sutton

As most members of the SLA Committee are not able to travel to the ICA conference in Brussels, we will not be holding a formal meeting on Friday 22 November, as previously proposed. SLA members can meet informally to discuss … Continue reading →

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A new Borges manuscript

Posted on 3 October 2013 by David Sutton

Here is a wonderful news story from the National Library of Argentina.  Did Borges set it up? Buenos Aires, Sep 6  2013: Researchers combing the archives of Argentina’s national library have found an unpublished manuscript written by literary giant Jorge … Continue reading →

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Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013

Posted on 30 August 2013 by David Sutton

Tributes are already to be found everywhere on the web to the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, for many the greatest poet in English of his generation.  He died today. For many years it seemed that Heaney’s literary manuscripts, on account … Continue reading →

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A Score for Literary Tourism

Posted on 20 August 2013 by hcd6

In October 2013 Nobel prize winner V.S. Naipaul’s childhood home, featured in his novel, A House for Mr. Biswas, will open as a literary museum.  The house is located in St. James, a suburb in the Port of Spain (Trinidad … Continue reading →

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SLA members in Brussels, 22 November 2013

Posted on 13 August 2013 by David Sutton

We are hoping to have a useful SLA meeting during the ICA annual conference in Brussels in November. To get an idea of numbers, it would be helpful if people could let me know if they are going to be … Continue reading →

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