Already, thousands of pictures have been deposited in the Herschel archive, which is set to become a key reference source for decades into the future.

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Last year the centre set up an Enid Blyton archive after buying original typescripts of some of her best-known work including the Secret Seven series.

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His daughter Nora maintains an archive of this material, and every so often, she hand-picks a musician to set some of these lyrics to music.

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