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Published Date
May 9, 2024

Charles Hasler Collection acquired

Following the closure of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University and the University of Reading are pleased…

James Joyce’s Parker fountain pen with Cartier gold book charm of Finnegans Wake, SSJ-OBJ/002
Published Date
September 21, 2023

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…

Published Date
June 28, 2023

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…

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…