News and Views
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Published Date
- May 11, 2020
UPDATE ON CORONAVIRUS
UPDATE: 1st JULY 2020 We welcome the announcement that museums will be able to reopen from 4th July. The University…
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Published Date
- April 21, 2020
Audio-Visual Beckett: Forgotten Gems from the Beckett Collection
Written by Dr Lucy Jeffery, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre When we think of Samuel Beckett and an…
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Published Date
- April 7, 2020
COVID-19: support for your study and research during the closure period
Although the University Library and Special Collections Service are closed at present, there is a wealth of support and expertise…
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Published Date
- March 3, 2020
Postal Notation: Melanie Daiken and Samuel Beckett
Written by Xander Ryan, graduate student in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading When Melanie Daiken…
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Published Date
- December 18, 2019
Street Fights and Radishes: the notebooks of Leslie Daiken
Written by Xander Ryan, graduate student in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. Amongst the rich holdings…
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Published Date
- August 22, 2019
Provenance, suffrage and female historians: The sixteen books of C.E. Hodge
Beware! A warning – to Suffragists (1908?) by Cicely Hamilton. Stenton Collection. Bethan Davies is our outgoing Academic Liaison Support…
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Published Date
- August 5, 2019
New Exhibition: Embellish’d with Gold.Treasures from the European Manuscripts Collection
During 2018 the University was fortunate to make an important new acquisition, the European Manuscripts Collection. The collection consists of…