Researcher Sam Richardson writes about volunteering at the Burgess Foundation (summer/autumn 2023) For the past five months I have been volunteering weekly at the Burgess Foundation’s Archive as part of the project to catalogue the object collection. Having recently completed my undergraduate studies in History, the role offered me a unique opportunity to gain relevant […]
For about half a year I have been working with my fellow volunteer Kayleigh to explore the collection of artworks at the Burgess Foundation. If you are familiar with the Foundation’s archive, you will know that many areas within it remain uncatalogued. This remote project has helped the archive to chip away at cataloguing, and […]
In the second of our blog posts about recent work to preserve the Foundation’s book collection, we focus on books relating to two of Burgess’s favourite writers: James Joyce and the Roman poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1823). (Read the previous post here.) Following repair work carried out by the book restorers Formbys, these volumes are […]
Preserving the Burgess Foundation’s collection of books, archival records, and objects is an ongoing challenge. Time spent in countries such as Malaya and Brunei, as well as travels throughout Europe, America, and the UK, brought with it exposure to termites, damp, floods, heat, and sunlight. Such conditions, coupled with frequent handling and the passage of […]
Peter Bakowski is Virtual Writer in Residence with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, appointed for the Festival of Libraries (artwork pictured above) by Manchester Literature Festival and Manchester UNESCO City of Literature. He will be sharing some of his work later in the year. In the meantime, he reflects on his time with the Burgess […]
Anthony Burgess used typewriters all his life in his spectacular production of more than sixty books and thousands of articles, reviews and essays. Our new exhibition, ‘Anthony Burgess’s Typewriters’, displays a selection of the many vintage typewriters that he used, and explores some of his writing about the machine that was always present in his […]
The Foundation supports academic study into Anthony Burgess. In this third guest blog post (read the first one here and the second one here), PhD researcher Milena Schwab-Graham writes about her work on the extensive Anthony Burgess cassette tape collection. In the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the chance to travel to the International […]
One of the central roles of the Burgess Foundation is to support new research into Burgess’s life and work. We have hosted researchers from all over the world, and continued to assist them in accessing the archive throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. In recent years, we have collaborated with the White Rose College of the Arts […]
The Foundation supports academic study into Anthony Burgess. In this second guest blog post (read the first one here), PhD researcher Milena Schwab-Graham writes about her work on the extensive Anthony Burgess cassette tape collection. For the past few months, my work as a researcher for the ‘Anthony Burgess on Tape’ project has been a […]
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the first release of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, and 60 years since Anthony Burgess completed his most famous novel. To celebrate the anniversary, we present an online series called The Clockwork Collection, with a focus on A Clockwork Orange. Each month, we’ll be sharing a […]