2015 – Collections – Special Collections

Travel Thursday: Farthest North

Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian In honour of Christmas and the annual travels of Santa Claus, this week’s Travel Thursday features an expedition to the North Pole! The […]

Reading Readers – Jeremy

One of our volunteers, Jeremy, tells us about how an encounter with a book of remembrance in the archive has led him to trace the stories of those from the university […]

Another chance to see the ‘Voice of the Stars’ almanacs exhibition

Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian If you missed the exhibition of almanacs at the Special Collections Service earlier this year, you have another chance to see it as it is […]

Travel Thursday: John Arrowsmith

Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian Born in 1790 in County Durham, John Arrowsmith moved to London at the age of 20 to work under the tutelage of his […]

Nancy Astor: Reading and Parliamentary Archives collaborate on exciting new project

Special Collections are delighted to have been supporting this collaborative project, which celebrates the parliamentary career of Nancy Astor. We have been working closely with Dr Jacqui Turner in the […]

Christmas Cards – The John Lewis Printing Collection

Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian Our lovely John Lewis Printing Collection comes complete with a fabulous and fun range of Christmas cards dating to their origin in the […]

Emma: a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian This month celebrates the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma.’ One of Austen’s more comedic novels, ‘Emma’ follows the eponymous […]

Finding Items in the Cole Library

Written by Helen Westhrop, Library Assistant Next week I begin the reclassification of the Cole Library; by this I mean to give each item a place on the electronic catalogue. […]

Travel Thursday: Wish you were here…

Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian This week’s Travel Thursday feature focuses on postcards and in particular, the postcards in our John Lewis Printing Collection (Group XII 2) An […]

Explore your Archive: Ducks

Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian Today the theme of Explore Your Archives is Archive Animals so we’re going to have a look at some of our wonderful archive […]