Surrey History Centre, on Goldsworth Road in Woking, has a Lewis Carroll exhibition running through October and November.

The free exhibition, This Side of the Looking Glass: Archives from the Real Life of Lewis Carroll, which has a global interest given the enduring popularity of the author, returns for 2026, featuring additional artefacts from Lewis Carroll expert and collector extraordinaire Edward Wakeling.

It runs until Thursday, 26 November.

Originally created to mark the 160th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 2025, it celebrates the life of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll.

Over the past 75 years, archives relating to Carroll’s childhood, letters and his original photographs of his brothers, sisters and aunt have been placed in the care of Surrey History Centre. These provide important evidence of his private life.

Many people link Lewis Carroll with Oxford, but he also had strong ties to Surrey.

Curator of the exhibition and archivist at Surrey History Centre, Isabel Sullivan, said: “This Side of the Looking Glass: Archives from the Real Life of Lewis Carroll, explores Carroll in his own time - his family and childhood, his avid letter-writing habit, and the Victorian age in which he lived, with its wonders of technology, including the new art of photography.

“We are delighted to display for the first time treasured objects and artistic creations we now hold on loan from the Dodgson family, alongside his original photographs, and letters from Carroll himself and, among others, Charles Darwin and Queen Victoria’s young granddaughter Princess Alice.

“Exhibits from the Dodgson family, the Manners Collection and West Horsley Place Trust are also included.”