Library and Archive Contacts

Get in touch

For enquiries, please email library@rad.org.uk or call +44 (0)20 7870 8873

You can write to us at:

Library and Archive, Royal Academy of Dance, 188 York Road, Battersea, London, SW11 3JZ, United Kingdom

Library Staff

All library staff are happy to help with any enquiry but their particular areas of responsibility are as follows:

Library and Archive Manager:
Rebecca Blackbourn
Mon-Fri
t: +44 (0)20 7326 8010

• Library & Archive operations
• Library acquisitions
• Donations of books, DVDs, CDs, journals, serials
• Copyright and IP enquiries regarding published material
• Borrower accounts & subscriptions
• Library display
• Faculty of Education resource lists
• Library & Archive finance

Archives & Records Manager:
Eleanor Fitzpatrick
Mon-Thu
t: +44 (0)20 7326 8004

• Archives & Special Collections management
• Donations of papers, objects and other historic materials
• History of the RAD
• Archive Exhibitions & display
• Record retention and disposal
• Copyright and IP enquiries regarding unpublished material and photographs

Cataloguing and Subscriptions Librarian:
Alex Hewitt
Mon-Fri
t: +44 (0)20 7326 8032

• Cataloguing and classification
• Serial subscriptions and online access
• Book Club
• Research and Information Literacy Skills

Archives Assistant (Dancing Times Photo Cataloguing Project):
Jonathan Gray
Mon, Tue, Wed
t: +44 (0)20 7326 8004

• All enquiries regarding the Dancing Times photographic archive

Library Assistant:
Tom Coates
Wed & Fri
t: +44 (0)20 7326 8032

• Wednesday evening and Saturday library access around FoE student written submission deadlines
• Stock maintenance and shelving