Tag Archives: Archives and Texts

Jess Brisley’s UROP in Special Collections: Publishing Class

Posted on August 30, 2018 by English Literature at Reading

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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The Digital Life of Decorated Books

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Cindy

  Please join us for the next Archives & Texts seminar: Thursday 1st December, 1-2pm in Humss G25, where Dr Hazel Wilkinson (JRF, Cambridge and visiting fellow at the Bodleian) will be introducing the newly launched Fleuron https://fleuron.lib.cam.ac.uk/ With wine and … Continue reading →

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Our alumna giving an Archives and Texts seminar

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Cindy

We are pleased to announce that Jessica Sage, a Reading English Literature alumna, will be delivering the final Archives and Texts seminar of the year. Jessica Sage (Newcastle, Seven Stories) ‘Edith Morley: Writing the Female Professor’ In 1908, at what … Continue reading →

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Archives and Texts seminar on the first day of term

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Cindy

We are delighted that James Raven, Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, will be joining us on the first day back of term for a seminar entitled,  ‘Compose Yourself: Pages of Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France’.  Monday … Continue reading →

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All welcome to Archives and Texts seminar

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Cindy

We hope to see you at the next Archives & Texts seminar on Monday 7th March, 1-2.15 in Henley Business School G03. The well-known archivist Fran Baker and Dr Florence Impens from the University of Manchester will be offering ‘A … Continue reading →

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Archives and Texts Seminar on Monday

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Cindy

The next Archives and Texts Seminar will be held on Monday 22nd February (week 7) URS 2s26, Whiteknights Campus, 1.10pm to 2.30pm Richard Bates (University of Nottingham) ‘How does one become a parenting guru? Exploring the childhood and archives of a … Continue reading →

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Archives and Texts research seminar TODAY

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Cindy

Dr Clare Broome Saunders (Oxford) Monday 25th January (wk 3) 1.10-2.15 URS (lego building) 2s26   ‘Through many dreary volumes of archives has she waded’: Louisa Stuart Costello and the 19th Century Literary Market Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a … Continue reading →

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All welcome at next Monday’s seminar

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Cindy

Please join us for next Monday’s lunchtime Archives & Texts seminar where Dr Hannah Sullivan (Oxford) will be giving a paper on ‘The Art of the Carriage Return: Free Verse, lineation and the typewriter’ 1-2pm in URS 2s26 (Hannah Sullivan is Associate … Continue reading →

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Archives and Texts seminar

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Cindy

Please join us for next Monday’s Archives & Texts seminar where Dr Kate Macdonald (Reading, Visiting Research Fellow) will be giving a paper on ‘Looking for shell-shock. Reading First World War fiction magazines’ 4-5.30pm in URS 2s26 https://www.reading.ac.uk/imagesforthemedia/reading-campus/iftm-urs.aspx ‘Looking for … Continue reading →

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Archives and Texts seminars this term…

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Cindy

School of Literature and Languages   Archives & Texts seminars 2015-16 Monday 12th October (wk 3) 5-onwards Drinks in the SRC – all welcome!   Monday 9th November (week 7) 4-5.30 Kate McDonald (Reading) “Looking for shell-shock. Reading First World … Continue reading →

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