News and Views
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Published Date
- March 9, 2026
Visualising class, disability, and race on the Victorian stage
Content warning: the Spellman Collection contains offensive language, imagery, and ideology. This blog post discusses racism, blackface and ableism. Learn…
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Published Date
- February 23, 2026
Challenging our view of rigid Victorian gender boundaries through music covers
In the first of two blog posts showcasing the research potential of our Spellman Collection of Victorian music covers, we…
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Published Date
- February 13, 2026
Mills & Boon: The Surprise Archive
Having long been a lover of a good romance novel, it was a dream come true to be granted permission…
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Published Date
- February 2, 2026
Festivals of the Imagination: early editions of novels and poetry by James Joyce
In 2020, Stephen James Joyce, Joyce’s grandson, bequeathed the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection to the University of Reading Special…
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Published Date
- December 9, 2025
Family photos from the personal archive of James Joyce
The Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection The University of Reading has acquired a major collection of books, documents and…
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Published Date
- November 24, 2025
A Century in Print: Exploring Student Life Through University of Reading’s Magazines (Part 2)
We continue our journey through the extensive range of periodical publications housed in the University History collection, also known as…
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Published Date
- November 14, 2025
A Century in Print: Exploring Student Life Through University of Reading’s Magazines (Part 1)
As part of the Special Collections library team, I am responsible for cataloguing and making available the printed and published…
