Slade 150: Letters to the Archive • Slade School of Fine Art

HISTORY OF THE SLADE TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir, A small committee has been formed to plan a history of the Slade School which, it is hoped, may be written during the course of the next few years. We are now at the stage of collecting the kind of material not contained in official records. Our immediate need is for personal reminiscences, , records, or letters relating to the period before the First World War, and especially earlier than 1910. We would be very glad to hear from any students or others having connexions with the school at that time who may have such information and would care to pass it on to us. May we, Sir, through the hospitality of your columns, invite them to write to the secretary of the Slade School? Yours faithfully, WILLIAM COLDSTREAM. Slade Professor. Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Gower Street, W.C.1. — Times advertisement, 1958

Did you attend the Slade? Do you have a story for the Slade archive?

Slade 150: Letters to the Archive draws inspiration from previous archival projects. In 1958, William Coldstream, then Slade Professor and head of the school, placed a notice in The Times asking for ‘the kind of material not contained in official records’, inviting Slade alumni to send in their personal reminiscences, records or letters dating from the period before the First World War. Some 40 years later in the 1990s, Slade archivist Stephen Chaplin conducted a similar alumni survey. The responses received from both these projects have been kept as part of the Slade Archive, UCL Special Collections.

Submissions to Slade 150: Letters to the Archive will be acquired as part of the Slade Archive, UCL Special Collections, and a selection of the responses published through our social media channels and online platforms.

Please submit your letter on A4 paper of your choice. Submissions must be received by 28 February 2022. All contributions must be accompanied by signed donation agreement and submission form.

Enquiries

For more information, contact slade.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk.

Project team

Liz Bruchet (Project curator, Lecturer Department of Information Studies & Honorary Research Fellow, Slade); Andrea Frederickson (Curator, UCL Art Museum); Jenny Goh (Slade Web Editor and Manager), Leah Johnson (Acting Head of Archives, UCL Special Collections); Rebecca Loweth (Associate Teaching Fellow, Slade), Jo Volley (Slade Deputy Director - Projects), Sara Borga (Slade 150 Events Coordinator).