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In Memory: Jim Haynes, 1933-2021

Jim Haynes — Edinburgh legend, Traverse Theatre co-founder, 1962 Writers Conference producer, champion of the counter-culture and avant-garde dies in Paris aged 87 -Martin Belk…

Congratulations David Curtis: Arts Lab book

Congratulations to David Curtis, colleague and friend of the Jim Haynes Living Archive on the forthcoming publication of his new book : London’s Arts Labs…

Launched: Ask Jim! Episode 1 • now streaming

8 October 2020 Today we celebrate the launch of the first episode of Ask Jim Haynes! This is especially exciting because Jim is a natural…

JHLA + Traverse explore new innovations

During the summer, Martin Belk, Facilitator of the Jim Haynes Living Archives joined meetings with the Traverse Theatre, to explore possible collaborations between Napier, the…

article • Thanks for Coming: Four Archival Collections and the…

Edinburgh Napier cataloguing archivist Alison Scott contributes to the Counterculture Studies journal https://ro.uow.edu.au/ccs/vol3/iss1/1/ Abstract The early to mid-1960s bore witness to the birth of the…

article: Could a 1960s counterculture hotbed be a blueprint for…

by Martin Belk The Stage, 15 June 2020 text: As British theatre looks for a blueprint to emerge from the pandemic, it could do worse…

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