News and Views
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Published Date
- February 28, 2019
LGBT History Month: Publishing pacifism, ‘perversity’, and prosecution
Written by Anna Murdoch, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. You never quite know what you could find browsing the shelves in…
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Published Date
- January 25, 2019
Best lookers rather than best sellers: Gaberbocchus Press
Written by Fiona Melhuish (UMASCS Librarian) “There is a madness about various Gaberbocchus books which is the spice of life,…
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Published Date
- December 21, 2018
Reading Readers: Lost in Translation in George Bell and Macmillan Publishers Archives
This month’s blog comes from one of our ‘Reading Readers’, Anna Strowe, who’s been looking at the archives of the…
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Published Date
- November 9, 2018
Forthcoming pop-up exhibition: ‘Embellish’d with gold: treasures from the European Manuscripts Collection’
Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian To celebrate the arrival of the European Manuscripts Collection earlier this year, we are very…
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Published Date
- November 2, 2018
Not forgotten: University of Reading to add names to war memorial
On 9 November 2018, the University of Reading will formally announce that the names of nine members who fell in the First…
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Published Date
- September 28, 2018
Buried Treasure on Campus? A closer look at the Overstone Library
Currently working at the University of Reading as Staff Engagement and Communications Officer, Jeremy Lelean previously worked as a dealer in…
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Published Date
- September 15, 2018
Important new acquisition: the European Manuscripts Collection
Written by Fiona Melhuish (UMASCS Librarian) I am delighted to announce a very important recent acquisition, in fact, one of…