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The New Woman: Five Women Writers of the 1890s

This is the second of two blog posts written by Helen Zeineh as part of a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) project undertaken in the summer of 2022. This post […]

Decadent Feminism: ‘New Woman’ Writers in the Special Collections

This is the first of two blog posts written by Helen Zeineh as part of a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) project undertaken in the summer of 2022. Feminism’s debt […]

New Special Collections Service Reading Room opening hours

We are pleased to announce that from Tuesday 4 October 2022, we are extending the opening hours of the Special Collections Service Reading Room. We will now be open until […]

Special Collections Service reading room to re-open

We are happy to announce that we will be re-opening the reading room in its usual space from Tuesday 23 November 2021. This means that we will have capacity for […]

Update: Special Collections Reading Room to extend opening hours

From 18 May 2021 we will be extending our opening hours to include Tuesdays for general access to collections through the Special Collections Service reading room. Capacity will remain limited […]

Update: Reading Room to re-open to all researchers

From 14 April 2021 we will be providing access to collections through the Special Collections Service reading room for all those requiring it, although capacity remains limited to enable social […]

UPDATE: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM NOW CLOSED

Following the Government’s announcement of a national lockdown on 4 January 2021, the Special Collections Reading Room will be closed until further notice. If you require access to the collections, […]

UPDATE: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND READING ROOM TO REMAIN OPEN

Following the latest Government announcement that Berkshire will enter Tier 3 on Saturday 19 December 2020, we will be making some changes to our Special Collections Service in the New […]

UPDATE: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM NOW OPEN TO ALL RESEARCHERS

In line with the latest Government announcement that Reading will enter Tier 2 at the end of the national lockdown, the reading room will be open to all researchers from […]

Research in Lockdown: the ‘Bees in the Collections’ UROP project

Many research projects have been disrupted or have come to a halt with the lockdowns imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we have been cheered and inspired by reports […]