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This collection consists of correspondence, notes and writings, artwork, photographs, press cuttings, exhibition material, printed material, personal documentation, financial documentiation, and ephemeral items relating to Cecil and Elisabeth Collins.

Kenneth Clark was Keeper of the Ashmolean and Director of the National Gallery, a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and a collector and patron. This collection consists mainly of the professional papers relating to his work as an art historian and writer, but includes material relating to his work as a public servant, an administrator and in other roles during the Second World War. It contains correspondence, subject files, writings, source material, photographs, press cuttings and printed ephemera.

The collection consists of 242 boxes of files relating to the work of the British Council Fine Arts, later Visual Arts, Department. The majority of the files concern the exhibitions created by the department and the touring of exhibitions outside Britain and provide illustrations of the art works included(notably for the Venice and Sao Paulo bienials), press cuttings, correspondence and related papers.