News and Views
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Published Date
- August 6, 2014
Hidden treasures from the Matthews-Shelley Collection
The Matthews-Shelley Collection is one of our rare book collections, and was created by the Shelley scholar G.M. (Geoffrey) Matthews (1920-1984), Professor…
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Published Date
- July 31, 2014
The Arts of Peace : Two Rivers Press poetry readings at MERL
MERL and local publisher Two Rivers Press brought together twenty-one local poets (collectively known as a ‘rhyme of poets’ perhaps?!)…
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Published Date
- July 22, 2014
The making of an exhibition: Max Weber
Professor Anna Gruetzner Robins (Department of Art, University of Reading) has been instrumental in building the current exhibition at London’s…
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Published Date
- July 18, 2014
Rugby, cricket and sports – oh my!
Today marks the anniversary of the birth (1848) of WG Grace, one of the world’s great cricketers. It has been…
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Published Date
- July 16, 2014
The A-list archive: filming the Mills & Boon collection for the BBC’s Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Today’s guest post from Judith Watts explores our Mills & Boon Collection. Judith is studying for her PhD as part of a…
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Published Date
- June 20, 2014
Behind the scenes: Work experience at Special Collections
Today’s post in from Anna, who spent her week of work experience on the library side of Special Collections. I…
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Published Date
- June 3, 2014
Visit to the library and archives at Douai Abbey
A few times a year, the archives and library team ventures out to visit another library, archive, museum or similar….
