News and Views
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Published Date
- January 22, 2015
Not strictly ballroom: Kon-Tiki and dancing the hula with Princess Margaret
This post comes from Brian Ryder, one of our volunteers here at Special Collections. Brian’s history with Reading collections is…
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Published Date
- January 19, 2015
New exhibition on early Venetian printing
Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian The year 2015 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius (c….
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Published Date
- January 15, 2015
Art and nature: Allen Seaby lecture and exhibition
In our last post we mentioned that we’re celebrating the centenary of Ladybird books, and we noted our BBC Breakfast…
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- January 12, 2015
Celebrating 100 years of Ladybird
100 years ago in 1915, jobbing printer Wills & Hepworth published the very first Ladybird book in Loughborough. They soon…
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Published Date
- December 23, 2014
12 Days of Christmas roundup
It’s almost Christmas! That means good cheer, Christmas spirit and….a fight to the death competition?! Although technically the 12 days…
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Published Date
- December 23, 2014
A strange sad week in the Beckett archive
It has been a very sad week for all of us involved with the Beckett Collection, as it marked the…
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Published Date
- December 19, 2014
New acquisition: Actress Billie Whitelaw’s Beckett archive
The University of Reading and the Beckett International Foundation are delighted to announce the purchase of a unique archive of…
