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Baskerville’s marbled papers

by Anna Murdoch, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant.   The Department of Typography & Graphic Communications’ teaching sessions always involve a…

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Aubrey Beardsley, the author: ‘Under the Hill’

Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian. Aubrey Beardsley, who died on this day in 1898, is well known as one…

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“Guardian angel” of the Cole Library: Dr Nellie B. Eales

    Members of the Library staff came rapidly to recognise her sprightly, bright-eyed figure making its way to the…

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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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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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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…