Archive Tour – Bishopsgate Institute Building Tour
Join Special Collections Manager Stef Dickers, not for an architectural tour, but for a humorous wander around the building and expect tales from the Institute's fabulous past. If you want to find out what connects Ernest Shackleton and Paul McCartney, and whether spiders laugh, this is the tour for you.
Access Information
This tour is accessible and remains on ground floor level.
Need to Know
Meet the guide
Stefan Dickers
Stef is the Special Collections and Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute and has been responsible for the development of the Institute's collections on the history of London, protest and activism, and LGBTQ+ Britain. He qualified as an archivist in 2001 and started at Bishopsgate in 2005.
Previous to this, Stef worked in the archives of the London School of Economics and Senate House Library. He will talk at extraordinary length about the collections whenever asked and regularly entertains groups of students, groups and family/local history societies on the wonders they can find in the Special Collections and Archives at the Institute.
Dates and Times
Archive Tour – Bishopsgate Institute Building Tour
, 0:31 - 2:01
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