News and Views
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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…
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Published Date
- March 11, 2014
Favourite Finds: Benjamin Britten, Herbert Read & the anarchists
Brian Ryder is one of our volunteers here at Special Collections. Brian’s history with Reading collections is a long one;…
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Published Date
- March 6, 2014
Happy #WorldBookDay from Special Collections!
It’s #WorldBookDay: a day to celebrate everything book and reading related, from authors to illustrators to publishers… Since 1995, the…
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Published Date
- March 5, 2014
From Love to Real Farmhouse Cheese (via the Crystal Palace): wonderful new collections based art on display
The remarkably diverse collections held by the University of Reading’s Special Collections service and MERL are currently being celebrated with…
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Published Date
- February 20, 2014
Love it or hate it? Mills and Boon at Reading
Today’s guest post from Judith Watts explores our Mills & Boon Collection. Judith is studying for her PhD as part of…
