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Behind the scenes: Hogarth Press transcription project

Our latest post comes from Dale, who has recently completed a six week UROP placement here at special collections. Dale has made a great start on the project entitled ‘Selling […]

Recent highlights from twitter

Do you follow us on Twitter (we’re @UniRdg_SpecColl)? Our staff regularly share images and snippets from our collections on Twitter, and we thought we’d share highlights from our recent tweets. […]

Favourite Find: Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations for ‘The Rape of the Lock’

I’m Fiona Melhuish, and in my work with the Special Collections rare books I get lots of opportunities to spotlight my favourite items from our wonderful book collections through our […]

An A to Z exhibition: Agriculture to Zoology and beyond

Our library and archives hold a wide range of collections that touch on many of the areas studies here at the University and beyond. From law material to zoology, agriculture […]

Manuscript of Beckett’s Murphy acquired

The University has acquired the working manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s first major work, Murphy, at the cost of £962,500, at an auction at Sotheby’s in London today. The hand-written manuscript, […]

Behind the Scenes: Current research at Special Collections

To kick off our ‘Behind the Scenes’ series, we thought we’d take a quick look at the variety of research going on in and the types of readers visiting our […]

Behind the Scenes: New gadgets in the building

It’s not every photographer who gets to use a camera set-up as large as the one we now have in our offices. Many of our projects involve digitization work, and […]

In the spotlight: Charlotte Murray

Charlotte Murray, our Archives Assistant (Graduate Trainee), spends quite a lot of her time working with our visitors and readers at the Reading Room desk, so she is the first […]

Talking cake and victory cake: #MusCake Day

The first in our ‘Favourite Finds’ series looks at cake – a staple in every workplace. Claire Wooldridge, UMASCS Graduate Trainee, elaborates. It will be thought very odd, I doubt […]

Exploring Reading’s Special Collections: A new blog

Written by Kate Arnold-Forster, Head of the University Museums & Special Collections Service Welcome to the launch of our Special Collections blog, the beginning of a new University Museums and […]