Uncategorised – Collections – Special Collections

JAMES JOYCE: A LOVE OF LANGUAGE EXHIBITION

The Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection was bequeathed to the University of Reading in 2020. To coincide with the opening of James Joyce’s library of books and objects for […]

Openness in Research: The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)

Virtual Volunteering with Special Collections in the Archives of British Printing and Publishing . We are thrilled to announce that the Special Collections and The MERL team have won one […]

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 […]

Cataloguing the Mills and Boon Book Collection

The Mills and Boon Book Collection at the University of Reading is a collection of over 4,000 books from the Mills and Boon back catalogue, published between 1909 and […]