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Published Date
September 28, 2022

New Special Collections Service Reading Room opening hours

We are pleased to announce that from Tuesday 4 October 2022, we are extending the opening hours of the Special…

Beckoning romance / Sophie Cole (1939)
Published Date
June 15, 2022

Cataloguing the Mills and Boon Book Collection

  The Mills and Boon Book Collection at the University of Reading is a collection of over 4,000 books from…

Front cover of an issue of The little review : a quarterly journal of art and letters. Blue and white patterned background with black type.
Published Date
February 2, 2022

100 Years of Ulysses

In light of our recent announcement regarding the acquisition of the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection, Graduate Trainee Library…

Birthday greetings telegram from Samuel Beckett to James Joyce, 2 February 1931, reproduced by kind permission of the Beckett Estate
Published Date
February 2, 2022

Joyce and Beckett reunited as University of Reading acquires major collection

A major new collection of books, documents and artefacts given to the University of Reading will provide unique new insights…

Published Date
January 10, 2022

Conserving a magical menagerie: the conservation and rehousing of the European Manuscripts collection

Written by Victoria Stevens, ACR The existence of manuscript fragment collections represents a fascinating snapshot of cultural and political points…

Published Date
November 19, 2021

Special Collections Service reading room to re-open

We are happy to announce that we will be re-opening the reading room in its usual space from Tuesday 23…

Published Date
October 29, 2021

Christopher Okigbo and the politics of publication (3/3)

This is the third and final post in a series written by Temiloluwa Odugbesan, who completed a UROP placement at the…

Published Date
October 22, 2021

Biafra, the Nigerian Civil War and context in the archives (2/3)

This is the second of three posts in a series written by Temiloluwa Odugbesan, who completed a UROP placement at the…

Published Date
October 13, 2021

Finding the Biafran Civil War in the African Writers Series (1/3)

This is the first of three posts in a series written by Temiloluwa Odugbesan, who completed a UROP placement at the…