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The Mander & Mitchenson Theatre Collection is one of the biggest English collections related to theatre.

Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, both actors, met in the late 1930’s and formed a professional and personal partnership that was to last for over forty years. In their house in Venner Road they amassed a vast collection of theatre ephemera, works of art, books and props.

Their collection (counting over 1500 archive boxes of theatre ephemera and 1500 books) is now in Greenwich, as part of the Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts (Trinity College of Music).

The boxes, containing over a million items of ephemera are still classified according the criteria originally used by Mander and Mitchenson. Each box is full of various materials, some more than one century old.

The collection counts many pictures, newspapers cut-outs, original documents and also a great deal of documentation regarding actors, regional theatres, circuses, puppetry and pantomime.

For more info visit the website: www.mander-and-mitchenson.co.uk