In November, ATS-Heritage continued their existing realtionship with the National Archives by providing research, development and production of the audio-visual work for their 'Movers and Shakers' exhibition.

This is a rare chance to view manuscripts and artifacts associated with seventeen movers and shakers from medieval times to the present.

Movers and Shakers: Geoffrey Chaucer to Elton John
6 December – 31 May 2005 Free

A rare chance to view manuscripts and artefacts associated with seventeen movers and shakers from medieval times to the present. These include: the first surviving printed document by William Caxton, a superb carved gold seal from the Treaty of Amiens, between Henry VIII and the French King, Francis I. In addition, there is a mummified rat found amongst the archives in the 19th century by the civil servant Henry Cole, as well as the telegram from Winston Churchill to Truman, President of the US, predicting the Cold War in 1945. There is also a dramatic letter announcing Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of DNA. Children can enter scenes from different historical periods and can try on a replica medieval robe, Elizabethan costume, as well as a wig and jacket typical of the eighteenth century.
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Criteria for selecting movers and shakers

• Momentous events – first printed document by Caxton, draft document relating to Henry VIIII’s divorce to Catherine of Aragon with his amendments. Crick and Watson’s discovery of DNA, Computer scientist Turing’s “comic strip” which relates to his involvement with enigma and the decoding of Nazi war secrets. Churchill’s telegrams to Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman expressing concerns about the Soviet Union and the prospect of a Cold War as early as 1945.
  
• Visual attractiveness of objects relating to the 17 movers and shakers- Elizabethan Plea Roll with stylised image of Queen Elizabeth, rare Engraving of North side of St Paul’s Cathedral before the building was completed by Sir Christopher Wren. Painting lent by Suzi Malin of Sir Elton John. Charcoal portraits of Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and as an old man.
  
• Features which reveal surprising and curious aspects of movers and shakers like Broadsheet relating to the Manning trial which lead to the “hanging of the century” which Dickens, witnessed and wrote about as a journalist and was inspired by as a novelist. Karl Marx’s investment of £4 as a shareholder in a London newspaper which includes his signature. Elton John’s change of name in deed poll document from Reginald Dwight to Elton Hercules John.