Canterbury, United Kingdom

Institution names followed by   are members of SIBMAS

• Canterbury Cathedral
  City and Diocesan Archives
• Canterbury Festival
• Canterbury Library
  Local Studies Collection
• Royal City Museum of Canterbury
• Templeman Library
  Special Collections 
• University of Kent at Canterbury
  Templeman Library
  Special Collections 

Canterbury Cathedral City and Diocesan Archives
The Precincts Canterbury, Kent CT1 2EH

Telephone: +44 (1227) 463 510
Telefax: +44 (1227) 762 897
E-mail: archives@canterbury-cathedral.org
Homepage: http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/archives.htm

Databases with information on collections:

Backstage

Subjects:

Dramatic theatre. Cinema.

Special Collections:

Music hall (1900-1910)

Friends of Canterbury Cathedral [plays commissioned]

Thomas Stearne Eliot, writer ["Murder in the Cathedral"]
James Miller [music hall patriotic song sheets]
Edward Percy ["The Enduring Stones"]
Dorothy Sayer, writer ["Zeal of Thy House"]
Eileen Thorndike, writer [adaptation of Tennyson's "Becket"]

Canterbury Festival
Festival Office Christ Church Gate The Precincts Canterbury, Kent CT1 2EE

Telephone: +44 (1227) 452 853
Telefax: +44 (1227) 781 830
E-mail: info@canterburyfestival.co.uk
Homepage: http://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk/

Canterbury Library Local Studies Collection
High Street Canterbury, Kent CT1 2JF

Telephone: +44 (1227) 463 608, 69 964
Telefax: +44 (1227) 768 388

Monday:	14:00-17:00
Tuesday:	14:00-17:00
Wednesday:	14:00-17:00
Thursday:	14:00-17:00
Friday:	14:00-17:00
Saturday:	9:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00

Special Collections:

Theatre (Canterbury)

Marlowe Theatre (Canterbury)
Theatre Royal (Canterbury)

A.J. Johnson [collection]

Royal City Museum of Canterbury
Canterbury, Kent CT1 2RA

Telephone: +44 (1227) 452 747
Telefax: +44 (1227) 455 047

Special Collections:

Gordon Collection of Playbills

University of Kent at Canterbury Templeman Library Special Collections       Date founded: 1963
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NU

Telephone: +44 (1227) 764 000
Telefax: +44 (1227) 827 464
E-mail: sac1@ukc.ac.uk
Homepage: http://library.ukc.ac.uk/

Databases with information on collections:

Backstage

Subjects:

Dramatic theatre.

Special Collections:

Edwardian Theatre
Victorian Theatre

Britannia Theatre (Hoxton) [manuscript plays]

Samuel Atkyns, playwright, actor [manuscripts]
Dion Boucicault [i.e. Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot] (1822-1890), manuscripts
Joanne Buck
Christopher Calthrop [Dion Boucicault Collection]
Michael Daw
John East
Marcus Elmore, actor
Richard Fawkes, writer, director [Dion Boucicault Collection]
Colin Henry Hazlewood [i.e. Fleetwood] (-1875), playwright [manuscripts]
F. Marchant, playwright [manuscripts]
Joan Matheson, actress
Andrew Melville (1853-1896), actor, theatre proprietor
Andrew II Melville (1882-1938), actor, theatre manager, producer
Andrew III Melville (1912-1988), actor
Beatrice Melville, actress
Edith Melville, actress
Frederick Melville, actor
George Melville (1824-1898), actor
Joan Melville [collection]
Kate Melville, actress
Minnie Melville, actress
Walter Melville, actor
E. Newbound, playwright [manuscripts]
Frank Pettingell (1891-1966), actor [play collection]
George Dibdin Pitt, playwright [manuscripts]
Colin Rayner [theatre collection]
Jack Reading [theatre collection, programme collection]
W. Seaman, playwright [manuscripts]
C.A. Somerset, playwright [manuscripts]
Charles Henry Stephenson, playwright [manuscripts]
Patrick Waters
Arthur Williams (1844-1915), actor [play collection]

Institution names followed by   are members of SIBMAS

• Canterbury Cathedral
  City and Diocesan Archives
• Canterbury Festival
• Canterbury Library
  Local Studies Collection
• Royal City Museum of Canterbury
• Templeman Library
  Special Collections 
• University of Kent at Canterbury
  Templeman Library
  Special Collections