{"id":810215,"date":"2026-10-22T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810215\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:40:11","slug":"the-snowman-creator-raymond-briggs-archive-unveiled-in-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810215\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs&#8217; archive unveiled in Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dealing with a new archive of items belonging to The Snowman illustrator Raymond Briggs &#8220;felt a bit like going into Tutankhamun&#8217;s tomb&#8221;, according to an archivist who worked on the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Olver spent nine months cataloguing the personal papers, work and records of the renowned cartoonist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The collection has been entrusted to the East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office at its headquarters, The Keep, by the estate of Raymond Briggs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just seeing remarkable artwork and having that behind-the-scenes look of some things which are just so iconic, it&#8217;s just amazing,&#8221; said Olver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The items included early drafts of The Snowman, which has become a Christmas staple for many households since its publication in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The illustrator lived and worked in Ditchling, East Sussex, for more than 60 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To have this access in a local archive and in a place which was so important to him, I think that is incredible,&#8221; Olver added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dealing with a new archive of items belonging to The Snowman illustrator Raymond Briggs &#8220;felt a bit like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-810215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}