2015 – Page 3 – Collections – Special Collections

1915-2015: The Great War remembered – Special Collections Service Seminar Series

An interesting a timely new seminar series offered by the Special Collections Service begins here tomorrow, 1-2 pm in our Conference Room. This series of lunchtime seminars looks back at […]

Magic and the Occult – Agrippa: De Occulta Philosophia

Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian Happy Halloween! To celebrate the spookiest day of the year here is a special find from our collections: The ‘De Occulta Philosophia Libri […]

Keats: A thing of beauty is a joy forever

Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian This weekend sees the 220th birthday of English Romantic poet John Keats. The title of this post, perhaps made famous more recently by […]

Behind the scenes: getting to know readers old and new

Hello, my name is Erika Delbecque and like Louise, I am new to UMASCS. I am, however, not new to the University of Reading; I worked here as a Trainee […]

Behind the Scenes: A Tour of Treasures!

Hello! My name is Louise Cowan and I’m a new member of staff here at UMASCS. Although my official role is ‘Trainee Liaison Librarian’ and I will mostly be based […]

From Devon to Derbyshire, the Shell Guides to Great Britain

This blog post first appeared earlier this week on Our Country Lives: the new MERL blog. The Shell Guides we already hold mentioned below are part of our Printing Collection. Written by […]

Hiroshima at 70

In 2011, the University of Reading received a remarkable and moving gift from the University of Hiroshima in Japan: a shattered roof tile collected from the riverbed near the hypocentre […]

Behind the scenes: digitisation of East German WW2 propaganda films

Ramona Salzgeber from the Centre of Eastern German Studies is working with us at Special Collections as an intern. For research purposes she is working to digitise propaganda films from WW2 and films […]

New acquisition: The Song of Songs

Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian. When turning the pages of The Song of Songs, one of our recent acquisitions for the Printing Collection, for the first time, you could […]

In the spotlight: Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665)

This year marks the 350th anniversary of the publication of Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon (London : […]