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A Special Collections exhibition: Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press
You might be interested to hear Nicola Wilson talking about the Hogarth Press centenary and Virginia Woolf as a printer with Mariella Frostrup and Mark Haddon on BBC Radio 4 Open Book. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vxkm5 You might also want to know … Continue reading
Sounds of the Land
DEL-MERL Visiting Speaker Series, Spring 2017 A series of lunchtime talks organized by the Department of English Literature and the Museum of English Rural Life Steven Matthews ‘Sounds of the Land’ talk at The MERL Tuesday 28 February 2017 12-1pm, at The … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of English, Department of English Literature, English Department, English Literature, MERL, MERL/DEL Visiting Speaker Series, Museum of English Rural Life, Professor Steven Matthews, Reading, University of Reading
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A Ladybird Talk at MERL
On Thursday February 23rd at 5:30 pm, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein will be giving a talk on a Ladybird Book, British Birds and their Nests, for the MERL Book Club. The talk is free and there is no need to book: … Continue reading
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Tagged British Birds and their Nests, Department of English, Department of English Literature, English Department, English Literature, Ladybird archives, Ladybird books, MERL, Museum of English Rural Life, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Reading, University of Reading
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Melissa Harrison opens the MERL/DEL Visiting Speaker Series
Melissa Harrison is a novelist, photographer and nature writer based in south London. Her first novel, Clay (2013) established her as a leading voice among the new ‘urban naturalists’. Her second, At Hawthorn Time (2015), is a powerful and ambitious … Continue reading
Call for papers
Twentieth-Century British Periodicals: Words and Art on the Printed Page, 1900-1999 4 July 2017 Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading, UK Current scholarship on twentieth-century periodicals is moving beyond the study of the ‘little’ magazine … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900-1999, Department of English, Department of English Literature, Dr Kate Macdonald, English Department, English Literature, MERL, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, Twentieth-Century British Periodicals: Words and Art on the Printed Page, University of 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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Tagged Department of English, Department of English Literature, Dr Paddy Bullard, English Department, English Literature, Maria Franchini, MERL, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, University of Reading, University Special Collections
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Books in unexpected places
Saturday 21 November 2015 Museum of English Rural Life, London Road campus, University of Reading 11.00 am to 4.00 pm Join us to celebrate the University of Reading’s research in Heritage and Creativity, showcasing material from its renowned archives … Continue reading
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
An academic placement in our university archives
Lucy Nicholson, one of this year’s academic placement students, writes: During the spring term of this year, I became interested in completing an academic placement for one of my English modules: ‘Women’s writing and feminist theory’ and thus after more … Continue reading