Triviality, materiality and synchronicity in the Lessing archive

Over the summer of 2019, I was on a work placement in the British Archive for Contemporary Writing at UEA. My task was to catalogue and describe the correspondence of Doris Lessing. I was developing the online catalogue of the set of boxes called ‘The 2008 Deposit’, making it accessible and searchable for researchers. The 2008 Deposit (unlike the 2013 Deposit, which arrived after Lessing’s death that year) is not under embargo by its copyright holders, so its contents are at least theoretically available for interested parties to use for teaching, research or the generation otherwise of their own academic-economic product. My task was to facilitate this.