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Stand Magazine Archive

Archive Print Collection: BC MS 20c Stand

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Description

This collection represents the archives of Jon Silkin's Stand magazine, from early days in London from 1952 to 1957, through its relaunch from Leeds in 1960 and move to Newcastle in 1965, through to its return to Leeds in 1999. The largest sections of the archive comprise business records and other materials relating to the magazine as a whole; production files (typescripts, dummies, proofs, etc.) relating to individual issues of the magazine from 1952 to 1998; and correspondence between 'Stand' editors, contributors and readers. There are papers relating to the involvement of 'Stand' editors in the 1965 Edinburgh Fringe Festival; and the 'Stand' anthology, 'Poetry of the Committed Individual', published in 1973.


The collection also includes several smaller accruals.

Biography or history

For information on Stand magazine see: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/leedspoetry/stand.htm.

Provenance

Purchased from Jon Silkin/Stand magazine in 1995.

System of arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following subfonds (sub-collections): Business Files Production Files Correspondence Edinburgh Fringe Festival Poetry of the Committed Individual Stand Symposium Donated and Misplaced Manuscripts

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