347:, as well as Australia, Canada, France and the UK. His connections in SLA and the ICA Executive Board were instrumental in the setting up and running of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network from 2012 onwards. This network was formed with the aim of promoting international collaboration in the preservation of, and access to, literary archives. It brought together a group of established scholars and experts from a variety of institutional backgrounds, and across different disciplines and regions, to initiate a context in which to practice and scrutinise methodological and conceptual frameworks. Through a programme of workshops the network sought to establish an international perspective on these issues by examining the complicated and sometimes competing motives of different stakeholders. It succeeded in establishing new partnerships and new patterns of international solidarity (notably with archivists in
355:, and Trinidad and Tobago) which are expected to continue into the future. In the period 2016–2021, through the work of both the Diasporic Literary Archives Network and the ICA Section for Archives of Literature and Art, collaborations have continued with colleagues in UNESCO and Swisspeace and the Human Rights Working Group of the International Council on Archives; and work continues on the development of literary archives in countries outside Europe and North America, especially in the Caribbean region (for example with the Caribbean Literary Heritage project), in eastern and southern Africa, and with colleagues in countries including Malta, Croatia, Argentina and Colombia.
174:. The printed volumes, however, became quite seriously out of date. From 1998 to 2003 work was conducted on a Supplement and revision of the 20th-century data, and the new version was made available on the University of Reading website. The website has been updated by further periods of research funded from 2010 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2021. Since 1994 Sutton has also been the UK editor of a website known as WATCH (Writers Artists & Their Copyright Holders). WATCH is a joint project between the
182:, and is a database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent people in other creative fields. The website, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, states: "Founded in 1994 as a resource principally for copyright questions about literary manuscripts held in the U.S. and the U.K., WATCH has now grown into one of the largest databases of copyright holders in the world."
303:(2017) includes revised versions other Oxford papers, but also polemical chapters on cats as food and on cannibalism, suggesting links with meat-eating and with current food taboos. He has also written an essay about amaranth and cannibalism (2019 below) which was featured on the BBC Food Programme. He became a trustee of the
283:(Jean-Louis Flandrin, Massimo Montanari). Returning to the UK in 1980, he published a number of short pieces about food history, before political and archival activities began to take precedence. In 2007 he was invited by Pedro Cantero Martín to participate in a symposium on the history of beer entitled
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Reading. He served as chair of the Waterways Sub-Committee (responsible for the Reading Waterways Plan of 1992, which prefigured the development of the Oracle Centre and other town centre improvements); then as vice-chair and chair of the Arts and Leisure Committee. From 1995 to 2008 he was Leader
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Coventry Labour Party from 1980 to 1982. He was one of the organisers of the Coventry Labour Left, and served briefly as the constituency treasurer. On moving to Reading, he joined Reading Labour Party and was associated with the left of the Labour Party. From 1984 to 1985 he was
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Director of Research Projects, based in the University Library, at the University of Reading, and an associate member of the University's School of English and American Literature (SEAL). In respect of UK literary archives, he has been Chair (2010–17) of the Group
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October 1982 Sutton became the senior research officer of a new project based in the University of Reading Library and known as the Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters. This has been a project to locate and list all the literary manuscripts which are available for public
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Trust, and partner in the South
Reading charity Aspire2. He was deputy chair of the Berkshire Economic Strategy Board (BESB), 2008–2011. He is a trustee, and the vice-chair, of the Earley Charity, one of the most important and wealthy local charities in the South of England, of which he has been a
246:. He lost his seat at the local elections of May 2008. He was the longest-serving council leader in the history of the town of Reading. He has not sought to return to being a councillor since 2008, but has taken on other roles in Reading, including chair of the board of
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on 18 October 1950. His mother was Sheila Sutton, née
Bourroughs. His father, Derek John Sutton, was in 1950 a student at the University of Reading, working as a trainee teacher at the E. P. Collier School in Reading. Sutton was educated at grammar schools in
242:; and at MIPIM (Le marché international des professionnels de l'immobilier, Cannes, France), 2006 and 2007. He was active in a number of outside bodies, including Local Authorities Against Apartheid, the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign and the
22:(born 18 October 1950) is a British archival researcher, cataloguer, indexer, librarian, literary scholar, copyright researcher, food historian, fairtrade campaigner, bus company director, urban regeneration specialist and local politician.
46:, the local municipally-owned bus company, and also chair of the Reading Fairtrade Group. For his archival research and literary editorial work on the Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters he was nominated for the
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Literary Archives and Manuscripts (GLAM), and in respect of literary archives worldwide he has been Chair/Président (2010–21) of the Section for Archives of Literature and Art (SLA) of the
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British Library in 1988. This was followed in 1995 by the publication, also by the British Library, of
643:"Linking Archives, Linked Open Data, and the Development of the World-Wide Directory of Repositories Holding Archives of Literature and Art" .
129:(member of the National Secular Society), and lists his hobbies as "badminton, football, walking in Dorset, sitting by the Mediterranean".
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287:(Carmona, July 2007), where he presented a long paper on the history of English ale. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the
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583:"Literary Archives in Africa: an overview with examples of recent initiatives".
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544:"Namibian Literary Archives: new beginnings and a possible African model" , in
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484:, edited by Mark McWilliams. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2012, pp. 335–345.
466:, edited by Richard Hosking. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2010, pp. 330–339.
390:(London: Reaktion Books, 2014; Japanese translation, Tokyo: Hara Shobo, 2022)
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518:"Markets Under Attack: rioters and regulators in Georgian England", in
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498:"Nefs: ships of the table and the origins of etiquette", in
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471:"The Stories of Bacalao: myth, legend and history", in
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698:"University archivist wins top international prize"
615:"Lebanese Sea Power: Food and the Phoenicians", in
856:Borough Government and Politics: Reading 1835–1985
629:"Diasporic Literary Archives: a new approach", in
562:"Archives at Risk: addressing a global concern" .
455:"Keeping WATCH: Tracking down copyright holders".
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307:in 2013, and the Symposium's Treasurer in 2015.
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599:"Background Paper on Archives and Copyright".
427:"Folkloristic Elements in the Titus Trilogy".
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664:Diasporic Literary Archives website: Partners
1001:ICA Section for Literary Archives (SLA) blog
945:Caribbean Literary Heritage website: People
480:"The Festive Fruit: a history of figs", in
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50:Medal in 1992 and highly commended for the
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839:"Leader out after 20 years – by a whisker"
590:"Literary Archives in African Countries".
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34:Library since 1982. A party member in the
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687:Royal Society of Literature. Benson Medal
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420:"A Yeats Borrowing from Mangan".
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434:"Food in Perspective".
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823:"Labour loses Reading"
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