12 Days of Christmas roundup

It’s almost Christmas! That means good cheer, Christmas spirit and
.a fight to the death competition?! Although technically the 12 days of Christmas begin with 25 December, we won’t be around […]

A trip to the SS Great Britain

This post comes from David, our Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. Each year, our teams visit a few other collections to learn about how they work and what material they offer.  […]

Life behind the scenes and beyond 


Today’s post comes from our Library Assistant Helen, who has a special interest in books about illustration and design and has been working on the Mark Longman Library. When I […]

Happy #MusHalloween!

Happy #MusHalloween!  We marked the #MusSpooks @CultureThemes day this week on 29 October.  Here are a selection of spooky halloween #MusSpooks and #MusHalloween themed images from our collections! Happy #MusHalloween!

Samuel Beckett Week at the University of Reading

We will be holding an exhibition and series of public events to celebrate the University’s internationally renowned collection of manuscripts from the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Wednesday 1 – Saturday […]