Monthly Archives: September 2014

Reading Beckett Week

Reading Beckett Week runs from Wednesday 1st October to Saturday 4th October 2014. The week consists of an exhibition and series of events to showcase Reading University’s internationally renowned collection of manuscripts from the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). … Continue reading

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The BBC at MERL: delighting visitors with our Special Collections

On Wednesday 17th September 2014 the BBC broadcast stories from theArchives and Special Collections at MERL. The Celebrity Antiques Road Trip team visited the Evacuee archive and the Mills & Boon records, part of the British Printing and Publishing collection. Dr Martin … Continue reading

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A successful internship and a new writing group

Lily Brown, one of our dynamic undergraduates, writes: During the past three months I have been undertaking an internship with jelly, a vibrant arts charity based in the centre of Reading. This opportunity was afforded to me through the Reading … Continue reading

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A summer trip to Harvard

Krissie West, one of our postgraduate researchers, writes… I was really fortunate to spend three weeks of this summer in the US, thanks to a bursary from the department and the Graduate School, continuing my PhD research on Transcendentalism in … Continue reading

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Nixon on Beckett on the BBC

Tonight, at 22:45 on Radio 3, Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon will be talking on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written. Find out more by following this link.

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A Pre-Raphaelite Museum

As part of this year’s Oxford Open Doors programme, John Holmes will be giving a talk explaining how the Pre-Raphaelites became involved in the design of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the 1850s, and how the Museum itself encapsulates … Continue reading

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An enjoyable UROP experience for one of our students

Sophie McKenna writes: I am currently working in the fifth week of my UROP placement, in which I am undertaking research for the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) at the University’s Special Collections. MAPP is a digital humanities project, which … Continue reading

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