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New exhibition – Charles Hasler: A Mid-Century Graphic Designer and Collector

Our new exhibition invites you to explore the work and interests of Charles Hasler (1908-1992), typographer and graphic designer. Hasler’s…

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Charles Hasler Collection acquired

Following the closure of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University and the University of Reading are pleased…

Beckoning romance / Sophie Cole (1939) News and Views

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. News and Views

100 Years of Ulysses

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

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Wizard of Oz Collection: now fully catalogued

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Stones, Sharks and Steno’s De Solido

Written by Ted Simonds, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. Today is #OldRockDay, a day to celebrate all things old, rocky, and…

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#StillSpecial: Google Arts & Culture launch

Written by UMASCS Librarian, Claire Clough  We have some exciting news to share with you – we have become the newest member…

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Resources You Can Use from Home 1: Databases

This blog post was compiled and researched by Antonia Love, Graduate Trainee Archives Assistant, and written by Ted Simonds, Graduate…

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A cabinet of curiosities : Ole Worm’s ‘Museum Wormianum’ (1655)

Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian The history of public museums is also a history of private collectors and collecting,…

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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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The Queen’s Resolve: Queen Victoria in the Special Collections

Following the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth, Liaison Librarian Bethan Davies takes a closer look at our Special Collections…

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New exhibition: “Colours More Than Sentences”: illustrated editions of ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’

Text by Michael Seeney, abridged and adapted with additional text by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian. “I wish I could draw…