Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1983-2003 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Shirley Jones is an artist, writer and printer who was born in the Rhondda Valley in 1934. She studied English literature at the University in Cardiff and taught for seven years before becoming an art student and undertook courses in printmaking in the early 1970s at Croydon College of Art. In 1977 she began producing her own books using hand made paper and from 1983 used the name Red Hen Press. Shirley Jones moved back to Wales in the early nineties and opened her studio in Llanhamlach, near Brecon.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Mr Peter Hartley, Whashton, June 2017, 99764028502419.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Two folders containing papers, 1983-2003, relating to The Red Hen Press, including ephemera and letters from Shirley Jones to the donor.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged in NLW into one file: correspondence and papers.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Private presses -- Wales. (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation revision deletion
March 2018.
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: 'Shirley Jones and the Red Hen Press', an article by John R Kenyon, 18 April 2013 [https://museum.wales/articles/2013-04-18/Shirley-Jones-and-the-Red-Hen-Press--/, viewed 26 March 2018] and papers within the archive.
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Ann Francis Evans.