News and Views
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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….
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Published Date
- 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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Published Date
- 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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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…
