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February 27, 2015

Rural Reads Plus review: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

To celebrate 150 years since the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Rural Reads Plus chose the book for their…

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February 19, 2015

New exhibition of children’s books on farming

Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian If you are passing the University Library on the Whiteknights campus, please do have…

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February 6, 2015

In the spotlight: Coins continued – Gloriana to Victoriana

Georgia Charitou, intern from Greece, shares some further highlights from her work on the Stenton Coin Collection, which spans the 7th…

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January 28, 2015

In the spotlight: Bloodaxe, Vikings and other early coins

I am Georgia Charitou, and I am an intern from Greece, where I study at the University of Thessaly. For…

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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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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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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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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…