News and Views
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Published Date
- 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…
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Published Date
- December 17, 2014
A trip to the SS Great Britain
This post comes from David, our Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. Each year, our teams visit a few other collections to…
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Published Date
- December 8, 2014
New acquisition: ‘King Arthur’s Wood’
Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian. One of our most recent acquisitions for the Children’s Collection will also be one…
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Published Date
- November 25, 2014
Life behind the scenes and beyond …
Today’s post comes from our Library Assistant Helen, who has a special interest in books about illustration and design and…
