News 2024
Ironbridge image courtesy of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
Conference at Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
To mark the 50th anniversary of Rolt's death, the Trust partnered with academics from Keele University to host a very successful conference celebrating his life and the continuing legacy of his work.
A wide range of talks was given at the conference on the 10th May 2024 at The Ironbridge Gorge Museum. These will at a future date be published and available from the Museum.Rolt archive now available
The Rolt archive held at Ironbridge is now available to researchers by appointment. It's a treasure trove of information relating to Tom and Sonia Rolt.
The collection came to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 2006 and, thanks to a generous donation, a full cataloguing project was undertaken in 2022/23. The more than 20,000 items in the archive include manuscripts, photographs, letters and the Cressy logbook. The catalogue can be viewed as a PDF on the Ironbridge website. For future research visits, please contact Collections and Learning Director Nick Booth (collections@ironbridge.org.uk), who can put you in touch with museum archivist, Sarah Roberts.New Rolt biography
May 2024 saw the publication of Victoria Owens' biography, The Life of L.T.C. Rolt – Where Engineering Met Literature. It's the first full-length biography of Tom Rolt and a complement to his auto-biographical Landscape trilogy.
Read more about the book and buy it from Amazon.