Forthcoming Events

24th May
Research Lunch
Jocelyn Anderson 'Ornaments and Honours: Country Houses as Cultural Treasures in the Eighteenth Century

29th May
Research Seminar
Christiane Hille 'Highly endowed in both Body and Mind': George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court'

7th June
Research Lunch
Amy Shulman 
(University of Birmingham)
'Picture Post and the Photo Essay: Émigré Photographers and Cultural Narratives in Britain, 1938-1945'


Recent Publications

  • Citizen Portrait, Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales
  • Lucie Rie, Modernist Potter
  • Sterling and Gowan, Architecture from Austerity to Affluence
  • Under the Banyan Tree
  • William Burton Conyngham and His Irish Circle of Antiquarian Artists

Accessing the Collections

The Paul Mellon Centre Library, Archives and Photographic Archive are
open by prior appointment. Access to all collections is provided, in the first instance, in the Public Study Room. If you require an appointment in the next 48 hours, please call 020 7580 0311. If you would like to book further in advance, please email collections@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk.  In your email, please include the following information:

1. The date and time of your proposed visit
2. Whether you have been before and completed a Reader Agreement Form 
3. Your general area of research
4. For archive and photographic archive collections: details of the material you would like to consult (collection name, file title and, where applicable, reference number). You may request 10 items per retrieval.

Public Study Room opening hours are Monday to Friday:

Library Collections: 10.00 - 17.00

Archive Collections: 10.00 - 13.00 & 14.00 - 17.00

Photographic Archive Collections: 10.00 - 17.00

Please note, the Public Study Room is occasionally closed to accommodate lectures and conferences (click here for details of forthcoming closures). The Collections are closed once a year for an annual stocktake. Please see the Public Study Room Closures page for details.

On your first visit you will be asked to complete a Reader Agreement Form. Please bring some personal identification with you when you come (a driving licence, student card, passport, bank card are all acceptable). All readers must observe the Rules of the Public Study Room including, in particular, using only pencil or laptop to take notes. Readers are welcome to plug in their own laptops and take advantage of wireless internet access.

Large bags should be left in the lockers provided. You will need a one pound coin to operate the lockers. The coin is refunded after use.

Please note that there is no café at the Centre, nor are there facilities for consuming your own food or drink.

To search the online catalogues:

Click here for Library and Photographic Archive material

Click here for Archive material

 

 

 

 

 

 



Library and Public Study Room

Archive Collections: Notes on Portraiture by G Sutherland / J Hayes Archive

Photographic Archive Collections