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Rebecca Keddie, graduate trainee archive assistant, standing in the archive store.
Published Date
January 19, 2023

Steam engines and Samuel Beckett: My Experience as the Graduate Trainee Archive Assistant

Written in September 2022 by Rebecca Keddie, Graduate Trainee Archive Assistant 2021-2022 My time as the University of Reading Graduate…

Published Date
December 16, 2022

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…

Cover of 'The Yellow Book' journal
Published Date
October 15, 2022

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…

Featured image for H&P family history blog
Published Date
September 30, 2022

Genealogy through Gingerbread: Using the Huntley & Palmers archive to research family history

  Throughout the summer, ourselves and Reading Museum have been celebrating the 200 year anniversary of Huntley & Palmers, the…

Published Date
September 28, 2022

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…

Beckoning romance / Sophie Cole (1939)
Published Date
June 15, 2022

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…

Front cover of an issue of The little review : a quarterly journal of art and letters. Blue and white patterned background with black type.
Published Date
February 2, 2022

100 Years of Ulysses

In light of our recent announcement regarding the acquisition of the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection, Graduate Trainee Library…

Birthday greetings telegram from Samuel Beckett to James Joyce, 2 February 1931, reproduced by kind permission of the Beckett Estate
Published Date
February 2, 2022

Joyce and Beckett reunited as University of Reading acquires major collection

A major new collection of books, documents and artefacts given to the University of Reading will provide unique new insights…

Published Date
January 10, 2022

Conserving a magical menagerie: the conservation and rehousing of the European Manuscripts collection

Written by Victoria Stevens, ACR The existence of manuscript fragment collections represents a fascinating snapshot of cultural and political points…