Tag Archives: University Special Collections

Jess Brisley’s UROP in Special Collections: Publishing Class

Jess Brisley, English Lit and Theatre, 2nd year, UoR This summer, I spent six weeks undertaking a research project based in the archives of Special Collections at the Museum of English Rural life as part of the UROP scheme with … Continue reading

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Special Collections exhibition opens

A new exhibition opened earlier this week at the Special Collections Service. It is called ‘Ex Libris: marks of ownership in rare books from the University of Reading Special Collections’, and explores the variety of different ways in which readers … Continue reading

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Happy 99th birthday to the Hogarth Press!

Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s publishing house, established in March 1917, is 99 years old this week. The Woolfs set up the Hogarth Press in their own home – part hobby, part creative and artistic enterprise – during the pressures of … Continue reading

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Archives and Texts seminar

Professor Daniel Göske and Christian Weiß (Universität Kassel) will be talking about ‘Inside Narratives: What Archives Tell Us about the Making of World Literature in the 1920s and 1930s’ Marketing international modernism in the 1920s and 1930s was a complex business, not … Continue reading

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The naughtiness of Mills and Boon

On the celebrated day of romance, one of the Department’s PhD researchers, Judith Watts has seduced the national media with her tales of Mills and Boon’s naughty side. Judith’s PhD research on ‘Mills and Boon and the Limits of Romance’, … Continue reading

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