14^th May 2019 LGBTQ+ Writing in the Seven Stories Collection

As we continue to explore radical themes within our Collection, this blog explores the writing of Aidan Chambers.

10^th May 2019 Dear Bob: Exploring the Robert Westall Correspondence in the Laura Cecil Collection

Antonia Perna is a Northern Bridge doctoral student at Durham University. She is currently undertaking a placement at Seven Stories, where she has been cataloguing the Robert Westall Correspondence in our Laura Cecil Collection.

28^th April 2019 Exploring Radicalism in Children’s Literature

Over the coming months we are exploring the theme of radicalism in children’s books.

6^th December 2018 Christmas Annuals: A Window into Years Gone By

This December we want to share an insight into the annuals we have in the Seven Stories Collection.

16^th February 2018 Placement Corner: The Fritz Wegner Collection

Read about illustration student Charlotte Dunhill's experience at the archive

2^nd February 2018 Meet the Team: Rosalind, Conservator

Behind the scenes with the Seven Stories Collection staff

17^th January 2018 'The House of Happiness' by Ursula Moray Williams

Discover Williams' unique collages in the Seven Stories Collection

29^th December 2017 File in Focus: Holiday Special!

This post's file contains the dummy book for 'Presents' by Leila Berg

15^th December 2017 Meet the Team: Alison, Exhibition Manager

1^st December 2017 A Change is Gonna Come: The Diverse Voices Symposium at Seven Stories

24^th November 2017 Childhood Works by Children's Authors and Illustrators

Discover the childhood works of Diana Wynne Jones, Elinor Lyon, Judith Kerr and Gaye Hicyilmaz

17^th November 2017 Pat Hutchins

10^th November 2017 Placement Corner: The Bernard Ashley Archive

20^th October 2017 Inspiring Collections of Children's Librarians and their books at Seven Stories

13^th October 2017 File in Focus: Azzi in Between

A new regular to the blog, October’s File in Focus is bursting with sketches and notes for Sarah Garland’s Azzi in Between

29^th September 2017 Meet the Team: Josie, Collection and Exhibitions Assistant

Behind the scenes with the Seven Stories Collection staff

15^th September 2017 In Her Shoes: A look at Noel Streatfeild's Archive

Find out about one of our exciting new acquisitions in this week's blog about the Noel Streatfeild collection.

1^st September 2017 Backstage at the Archives: Cataloguing Pearl Binder

25^th August 2017 A Brief Foray in the David Wood Collection

The intricacies of adapting and staging Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden

18^th August 2017 Meet the Illustrator: David Axtell

11^th August 2017 Placement Corner: The Pamela Whitlock Archive

4^th August 2017 Marilyn Edwards

28^th July 2017 Summer Holidays the Puffin Way

22^nd December 2016 All About: Sleighs

Our final transport blog for the year is all about a Christmassy collection

25^th November 2016 Wombat goes walk about to the Seven Stories Collection

For #archiveanimals Wombat decided to take a break from the exhibition

24^th November 2016 All About: #autoarchives

We bring you a selection of our favorite modes of transport for #autoarchives.

22^nd November 2016 #HairyArchive Bears

Dr Jessica Medhurst discusses bears at Seven Stories and bears in children's book

7^th November 2016 David Almond Fellowships 2016/17

David Almond Fellowships aims to promote high-quality research into the Seven Stories Collection

2^nd November 2016 500,000 Thank yous

We'd like to thank the National Lottery players who have helped to support half a million projects

1^st September 2016 All About: Walking

Journey to Jo’burg delivers a subtle and powerful message about apartheid South Africa.

18^th August 2016 The Clive King Collection

Volunteer Jonathan Oscher talks about one of our new Collecting Cultures acquisitions

1^st August 2016 All About: Air Balloons

Judy Brook's Tim Mouse takes to the skies in the greatest of air balloon harvest mice rescues

19^th July 2016 All About: (War) Horses

Spoiler Alert: this blog post discusses the end of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse...and an alternative ending!

1^st June 2016 All About: Kettles

This month we will be exploring the very important and well known method of getting around, the kettle.

13^th May 2016 Pearl Binder: from the East End to Hong Kong and North America.

Pearl Binder as children's book illustrator

4^th May 2016 All About: Boats

Exhibition Curator David Wright explores the significance of boats in the work of Edward Ardizzone.

19^th April 2016 Research the Seven Stories collection for your PhD

Vital North Partnership Manager, Rachel Smith discusses an exciting PhD opportunity.

18^th April 2016 Bringing Seven Stories to the British Conference of Undergraduate Research

Volunteer Megan champions our Collection and the North East

1^st April 2016 All About: Time-slip

Investigate time travel as transport in Berlie Doherty's Children of Winter

15^th March 2016 King Arthur

Arthurian legend and Camelot favourites with volunteer Nick Brown

1^st March 2016 All About: Cars

"The sun is shining And so is my car, It's a beautiful morning, How happy we are, Parp-parp-parp"

1^st February 2016 All About: Castles

The most inventive and smoke-belching mode of transport: a castle!

8^th January 2016 "Books have reference numbers too"

Paula Pintos gives an excellent account of our Book Collections

1^st January 2016 All About: Tramcars

Welcoming 2016 with Tramcars in our new All About themed posts

18^th December 2015 Merry Christmas 2015!

As a little wrap up for the year, here are just a small sample of a few of our favourite posts from 2015 - happy reading!

1^st December 2015 All About: Horses

We hold material for some very famous literary horses - here is a small selection of archive, illustration and books

27^th November 2015 CILIP NE visit

Anne Sharp writes about her visit to our store with eight other Library staff as part of an CILIP NE event

19^th November 2015 Archives and learning

Beth, our Learning and Participation Coordinator explains why #archivesrock for learning programmes

18^th November 2015 A Year in the Seven Stories Archive

Celebrate our amazing archive as part of the National Archive's 'Explore your Archive' week

16^th November 2015 14 things you need to know about Seven Stories' Collection

Archives across the UK will be taking part to #explorearchives

13^th November 2015 David Fickling Collection continued

Fickling seems to be a magnet for talent, he and his team have an eye for spotting amazing books and authors.

12^th November 2015 Foraging through Fickling’s Archive Part 3

The third installment of volunteer Grace's diary exploration into our David Fickling Collection

11^th November 2015 Foraging through Fickling’s Archive Part 2

The second installment of volunteer Grace's diary exploration into our David Fickling Collection

10^th November 2015 Foraging through Fickling’s Archive Part 1

Over the next few days we'll be posting the archival adventures of volunteer Grace as she explores the David Fickling Collection

1^st November 2015 All About: Mice

November's first mouse, or hoard of mice, is the fantastically imaginative book by Martin Waddell and Phillipe Dupasquier.

22^nd October 2015 The Michael Morpurgo Archive

7^th October 2015 Robert Westall’s North East

1^st October 2015 All About: Lions

23^rd September 2015 "A Twit's Story at Seven Stories"

10^th September 2015 The Big Prop Shop

1^st September 2015 All About: Dragons

10^th August 2015 Ann numbers and remembers

6^th August 2015 Beverley Naidoo Collection

1^st August 2015 All About: Rabbits

26^th July 2015 Collecting Cultures update

21^st July 2015 Seven Stories Visitor Centre is now open! Part 2

19^th July 2015 Seven Stories Visitor Centre is now open! Part 1

6^th July 2015 Seven Stories on Tour

1^st July 2015 All About: Dogs

28^th June 2015 Hartlepool Festival of Illustration

23^rd June 2015 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal Winners

1^st June 2015 All About: Tigers

1^st May 2015 All About: Birds

1^st April 2015 All About: Pigs

1^st February 2015 All About: Sheep

1^st January 2015 All About: Bears

22^nd December 2014 The Thimble Press Traditional Tales Collection

11^th December 2014 Exploring the Diana Wynne Jones archive, by Creative Writing student Becky Orwin

26^th November 2014 Charles Keeping's illustrations for 'The God Beneath the Sea' and 'The Golden Shadow'

18^th November 2014 Harold Jones's 'Lavender's Blue' comes to Seven Stories

12^th November 2014 Two Exhibitions Come to an End

7^th November 2014 Edward Ardizzone artwork donation at the CILIP Youth Libraries Group conference

31^st October 2014 Spooky goings on in Store

24^th October 2014 Guest Post: Brian Selznick gives a behind the scenes look at 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret'

17^th October 2014 Diverse Voices at Seven Stories

10^th October 2014 'Illustration and Inspiration' at the Granary Gallery, Berwick

30^th September 2014 Ballet Stories with Katharine Holabird and Pam Knights

19^th September 2014 Good Ideas with Michael Rosen

11^th September 2014 A Fantastic Legacy: Diana Wynne Jones Memorial Conference

9^th September 2014 Tony Mitton and John Lawrence’s 'Wayland'

3^rd September 2014 Classic children's illustrations find a new home at Seven Stories

19^th August 2014 Robert Westall: a Writer and His World Exhibition at Weaver Hall Museum, Cheshire

8^th August 2014 Writing for Pleasure Project

31^st July 2014 Interview with Angelina Ballerina Illustrator, Helen Craig

24^th July 2014 Installing Angelina

17^th July 2014 The making of 'Twists and Tails - The Story of Angelina Ballerina'

10^th July 2014 The Wonderful World of Kate Petty

2^nd July 2014 All about pop-up books! (2 of 2)

30^th June 2014 Looking at radical children's literature, no. 3: H. G. Wells 'Little Wars'

23^rd June 2014 Dragons, Diaries and the Gruffalo, Seven Stories Touring in Summer 2014

17^th June 2014 Yasmeen Ismail winner of Best Book Illustrator at the V&A Illustration Awards!

16^th June 2014 Looking at radical children's literature, no. 2: 'The Magic of Coal'

10^th June 2014 All about pop-up books! (1 of 2)

2^nd June 2014 Looking at radical children's literature, no. 1: Olive Dehn's 'Come In'

28^th May 2014 Moving Stories in the archive: 'The Machine Gunners' and the BBC

16^th May 2014 The 40th anniversary of 'The Trouble with Donovan Croft' - with guest contributor, Bernard Ashley

29^th April 2014 Picturebook in Progress at Edinburgh College of Art

2^nd April 2014 Gillian McClure Visits Seven Stories

21^st March 2014 Finding Your Voice in Children's Books

13^th March 2014 Helen Craig's studio

21^st February 2014 Moving Stories Introduction Evening

19^th February 2014 David Almond and Polly Dunbar talk about My Dad's a Birdman

11^th February 2014 The Gruffalo Travels to Chatham, Kent

4^th February 2014 Visitors to the Collection

28^th January 2014 Picturebook in Progress

27^th January 2014 Judy Brook's boat

27^th January 2014 Our BRAND NEW Storylab Gallery: Behind the Scenes

20^th January 2014 Touring Exhibitions from Seven Stories

9^th January 2014 Yasmeen Ismail at the Seven Stories archive

6^th January 2014 About the Seven Stories collection…

16^th December 2013 Welcome to the BRAND NEW blog!