News and Views
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Published Date
- 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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Published Date
- 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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Published Date
- 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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Published Date
- 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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Published Date
- 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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Published Date
- 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…
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Published Date
- March 12, 2014
“We met at a party” Professional Children’s Publishing and the lady editor’
This was the title of a recent seminar given as part of the English Departments’s latest Archives & Text series…
