News and Views

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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….

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May 16, 2014

Celebrating the hedgehog: National Hedgehog Awareness Week

It has been brought to our attention that this is National Hedgehog Awareness Week – and as we’re attached to…

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May 16, 2014

Beckett’s Murphy on display

In 2013 the University of Reading acquired the hand-written manuscript for Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel and the first major…

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May 12, 2014

Museum Studies and Costumed Interpretation Summer Schools

Exciting news! We’ll be running two summer schools here in the museum this year. The University of Reading has a…

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May 9, 2014

Pandora comes back to Special Collections

We have a newcomer to our staircase entrance hallway – the stunning Pandora, by JD Batten. Pandora is a part…

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April 22, 2014

Favourite finds: First Mills & Boon

Although Mills & Boon didn’t start life as a romance publisher, the company’s first publication in 1908 was in fact…

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April 15, 2014

In the spotlight: The Overstone Library

The Overstone Library was what we like to call the ‘foundation collection’ of the University Library. With nearly 8,000 printed…

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March 21, 2014

And then my heart with pleasure fills…

Spring has sprung, and the daffodils here at Special Collections are out in full force! If you’re coming in or…

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March 13, 2014

‘The making of world literature in the 1920s and 1930s’ – don’t miss the last in the current Archives & Texts series!

Professor Daniel Göske, Christian Weiß (Universität Kassel), ‘Inside Narratives: What Archives Tell Us about the Making of World Literature in…