Research and resources
Until 2000,
Linley Sambourne House contained thousands of unsorted papers
relating to the Sambourne family and life at 18 Stafford Terrace.
With the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, this material has
now been catalogued and is stored at Kensington Central Library,
just five minutes’ walk from Linley Sambourne House.
The Sambourne Family Archive is in itself an outstanding
resource. Dating from 1815 to the present day, it includes the
diaries kept by Edward Linley Sambourne, his wife Marion and their
son Roy, as well as letters, legal and financial papers, bills and
receipts for work carried out at the house, photographs and
ephemera. The archive also contains papers relating to the more
recent history of the house.
Altogether, this material allows the daily life of the family to
be pieced together as well as giving detailed insights into
Sambourne’s professional life at Punch and late Victorian/Edwardian
society.
View the Sambourne
Family Archive