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Acknowledgements The first debt of the TLS Centenary Archive is to the News International Archive and Record Office at Wapping: a repository unique in British journalism for its depth and range. In preparing the index of contributors we have been helped, first, by the fact that its holdings––especially those described here under Sources and Methods––have been professionally conserved, restored and in some cases microfilmed. We have also benefited from the Archive’s own contributor index for the years 1902–1915. We are most grateful to the Archivist, Eamon Dyas and his colleagues, particularly Caroline O’Sullivan, Nick Mays and Alison Burdon, for aiding our access to this material, for their expert help in seeking out information of all sorts, and for their comments on our work as it has proceeded. Conservation was carried out for the Archive by John Cuthbert; microfilming by Microformat (UK), Rochester. The project would not have been undertaken without institutional support. The Leverhulme Trust has provided salary and research expenses for Deborah McVea to be employed as a researcher for three years in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. We are grateful for the advice of the Trust’s Director, Professor Barry Supple, in the initial planning stages. The University has supplied an office and technical and clerical support, as well as allowing Jeremy Treglown a period of sabbatical leave. We are grateful to staff of the University, especially those working in the Research and Development Services Office, the Computing Services Centre, and in the Department, above all its present Chair, Professor Michael Bell, and its Secretary, Elisabeth Cameron. The Centenary Archive is a joint project of The Times Supplements and of Primary Source Media. In preparing the index of contributors, we have had unfailing practical support and encouragement from both companies. Along with the University of Warwick, they provided necessary technical equipment. By a feat of restoration, PSM made available the database of the original index of contents prepared by its precursors, Newspaper Archive Developments. We are grateful to Mark Holland, Publisher of Primary Source Media and in particular to three of his colleagues, Reg Readings, Director of Technology, Ian Clark, Project Consultant and Penny Wenham, Managing Editor; to James MacManus, Managing Director of Times Supplements and his predecessor Phillip Crawley; and to Ferdinand Mount, Editor of The Times Literary Supplement and his staff. The TLS Centenary Archive has benefited from two other groups of people. The first is the project’s Advisory Board, which consists of Stefan Collini, Hermione Lee, Derwent May, Carolyn Steedman, Richard Storey and John Sutherland, as well as some of those already named. We thank them all for their guidance and expertise. The second group consists of individuals who have kindly contacted us in response to enquiries about ‘Missing Persons’. In the relevant entries, we acknowledge only those who supplied the information first or who significantly added to what we knew. The full list of those who have so far sent information is: Jack Adrian, Kenyon Alexander, Mark Alexander, Brigid Allen, Ann Baer, Peter Balmford, P. O. Barnitt, Alan Bell, Andrew Belsey, Elizabeth Belsey, Bernard Bergonzi, T. A. Birrell, Richard Boston, Piers Burton-Page, Ian Catanach, M. M. Chapman, Juliet Clutton-Brock, Michael D. Coe, Stephen Massey, John Coldstream, Pierre Coustillas, Tony Cross, Geoffrey Davenport, Richard Davenport-Hines, Sara Delamont, Richard M. Dunn, Penelope Fitzgerald, David Fitzpatrick, Richard Fries, Christopher Fyfe, Margaret Gardiner, Gerald Gliddon, Henry Hardy, John Harris, Fred Hunter, T. G. H. James, Joanna Innes, Ian Jackson, J. R. de J. Jackson, Ian Jarvie, Robert Jenkins, H. F. Kearney, Patrick King, B. J. Kirkpatrick, Paul Levy, Ernest Mehew, Graham Neville, Peter Nicholson, James Obelkovich, Mark Ockelton, Ken Osborne, A. E. B. Owen, Sir Edward Playfair, Katherine A. Powers, Jenny Rees, J. W. Rogerson, John Rosselli, Stanley Sadie, Colin Seymour-Ure, Graham Slater, David C. Smith, Martin F. Smith, John Smurthwaite, M. Southwood, David Steeds, Denis Stevens, Patrick Strong, Donald Sutherland, Martha S. Vogeler, Keith Walker, Gavin White, and Peter and Phyllis Willmott. Assistance of other kinds was provided by Jean McVea and Jim McVea, Caroline Robson, and John Horton. Any comments on, or additional information for, the index of contributors should be sent to Dr Deborah McVea and Professor Jeremy Treglown, TLS Centenary Archive, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK, email enscc@warwick.ac.uk; or c/o the publishers, Primary Source Media/The Gale Group, PO Box 45, Reading RG1 8HF, UK. |
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