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Clive Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1935. He was educated and brought up in Ireland where he qualified as a solicitor. In 1958 he emigrated to London and settled in Spitalfields in the early 1970s. His 'Summer Overtures' was joint winner of Adam International Review's First Novel Award in 1972. 'Freedom for Mr. Mildew' and 'Nigel Someone' appeared to critical acclaim in one volume in 1975. A series of nine recorded autobiographies, as listed below, followed. Since 1999, Clive Murphy has published six books of comic, often ribald, verse. The eighth, 'On Pleasure Bent', was published in 2013. The 'Ordinary Lives' series, edited by Clive Murphy, includes: Deeds of a Good Woman by Beatrice Ali (1976); Born to Sing by Alexander Hartog (1978); Four Acres and a Donkey: the memoirs of a lavatory attendant by S.A.B. Rogers (1979); Love, dears! The memoirs of a former chorus girl by Marjorie Graham (1980); Oiky: the memoirs of a pigman by Len Mills (1984); At the Dog in Dulwich: recollections of a poet by Patricia Doubell (1986); A Stranger in Gloucester: recollections of an Austrian in England by Mrs Falge-Wahl (1986); Dodo by Dodo Lees (1993); Endsleigh: memoirs of a riverkeeper by Horace Adams (1994).
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GB 0372 MURPHY [1920]-2013 Fonds approximately 50 boxes Murphy , Clive Hunter , b 1935 , author and oral historian
Clive Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1935. He was educated and brought up in Ireland where he qualified as a solicitor. In 1958 he emigrated to London and settled in Spitalfields in the early 1970s. His 'Summer Overtures' was joint winner of Adam International Review's First Novel Award in 1972. 'Freedom for Mr. Mildew' and 'Nigel Someone' appeared to critical acclaim in one volume in 1975. A series of nine recorded autobiographies, as listed below, followed. Since 1999, Clive Murphy has published six books of comic, often ribald, verse. The eighth, 'On Pleasure Bent', was published in 2013. The 'Ordinary Lives' series, edited by Clive Murphy, includes: Deeds of a Good Woman by Beatrice Ali (1976); Born to Sing by Alexander Hartog (1978); Four Acres and a Donkey: the memoirs of a lavatory attendant by S.A.B. Rogers (1979); Love, dears! The memoirs of a former chorus girl by Marjorie Graham (1980); Oiky: the memoirs of a pigman by Len Mills (1984); At the Dog in Dulwich: recollections of a poet by Patricia Doubell (1986); A Stranger in Gloucester: recollections of an Austrian in England by Mrs Falge-Wahl (1986); Dodo by Dodo Lees (1993); Endsleigh: memoirs of a riverkeeper by Horace Adams (1994).
Deposited with Bishopsgate Institute by Clive Murphy at various points, 2012-2013.
Papers of author and oral historian Clive Murphy, including: typescript and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for all of the books in the 'Ordinary Lives' series, including papers on unpublished books, 1966-1998; audio tapes of interviews with all subjects in the 'Ordinary Lives' series, including interviews for unpublished books, 1973-1999; typescrpt and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for all volumes of comic verse, 1998-2013; typescript and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for published and unpublished novels, 1964-1998; handwritten diaries, entitled 'The Old Age of Clive Murphy', 2003-2013; 198 photograph albums of personal photographs from holidays, day-to-day life and around Spitalfields, 1987-2013; ephemera, including pamphlets and leaflets, 1960s-1990s; scrapbooks containing press cuttings and handwitten notes of quotations, n.d.; extensive correspondence, mainly in postcard form, with author Francis King, 1997-2011; oversize scrapbooks, mainly in wallpaper sample books, containing miscellaneous press cuttings, 1980-2013; postcards of male beauty, n.d.; personal and family papers, including correspondence with mother Vera Murphy, childhood diaries, photographs and photograph albums, certificates, childhod match box collection and autograph book, c 1920s-2000.
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January 2014 Oral history Murphy , Clive Hunter , b 1935 , author and oral historian Historical methods History
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Deposited with Bishopsgate Institute by Clive Murphy at various points, 2012-2013.
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Papers of author and oral historian Clive Murphy, including: typescript and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for all of the books in the 'Ordinary Lives' series, including papers on unpublished books, 1966-1998; audio tapes of interviews with all subjects in the 'Ordinary Lives' series, including interviews for unpublished books, 1973-1999; typescrpt and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for all volumes of comic verse, 1998-2013; typescript and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for published and unpublished novels, 1964-1998; handwritten diaries, entitled 'The Old Age of Clive Murphy', 2003-2013; 198 photograph albums of personal photographs from holidays, day-to-day life and around Spitalfields, 1987-2013; ephemera, including pamphlets and leaflets, 1960s-1990s; scrapbooks containing press cuttings and handwitten notes of quotations, n.d.; extensive correspondence, mainly in postcard form, with author Francis King, 1997-2011; oversize scrapbooks, mainly in wallpaper sample books, containing miscellaneous press cuttings, 1980-2013; postcards of male beauty, n.d.; personal and family papers, including correspondence with mother Vera Murphy, childhood diaries, photographs and photograph albums, certificates, childhod match box collection and autograph book, c 1920s-2000.
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Copy of handlist available in Library Reading Room.
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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