Tag Archives: Museum of English Rural Life

EMRC Colloquium, 22 March 2013

  ‘Printed Image and Decorative Print, 1500-1750’ Friday 22 March 2013   Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, London Road Campus, Building LO22, Room 111 Session 1: Eric Kindel, ‘Recording knowledge: Christiaan Huygens and the invention of stencil duplicating’ … Continue reading

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Neil Cocks at the Museum of English Rural Life

Dr Neil Cocks: “Country Education and late-eighteenth century literature” On 27th November 2012, from 4.30-6 pm, CIRCL’s Dr Neil Cocks will be giving a seminar at the Museum of English Rural Life on “Country education and late-eighteenth century literature“.   … Continue reading

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Sue Walsh on her recent research

  During my research leave I worked on my article ‘The Child in Wolf’s Clothing: the Meanings of the “Wolf” and questions of identity in Jack London’s White Fang’ which will come out in the European Journal of American Culture … Continue reading

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Lise Jailant writes about our symposium

    Lise Jaillant, PhD candidate in English at the University of British Columbia, writes: I attended a one-day symposium earlier this year at the University of Reading (Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and Distributing Literary Cultures, 1880-1940). It was … Continue reading

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Two Rivers Press: poetry evening

Event at Museum of English Rural Life Free, no need to book Poetry readings: 6.30pm Tom Phillips, Kate Behrens and Adrian Blamires. 8pm Ian House, Susan Utting and Lesley Saunders Guided tours at 6pm and 9pm Bar open from 6pm … Continue reading

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Special Collections Symposium

On Saturday 24th March we welcomed thirty delegates to the University of Reading’s Special Collections for our one-day symposium on ‘Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and Distributing Literary Cultures, 1880-1940’. There was a good mix of academics, writers and archivists, … Continue reading

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Dr David Brauner on ‘The Jewish Anti-Pastoral’

  On Tuesday 27th March, Dr David Brauner entertained an enthusiastic public audience at the Museum of English Rural Life with a talk on ‘The Jewish Anti-Pastoral’. Laughter soon rang out in the conference room at MERL, as Dr Brauner … Continue reading

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Authors, Publishers and Readers: a new exhibition

Exhibition announcement       Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and distributing literary cultures, 1880-1940 12 March – 30 March, normal museum opening times (Museum of English Rural Life) Staircase hall display   The display focuses on the changing literary … Continue reading

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Professor Alison Donnell talks at MERL

On Monday 12 March, Professor Alison Donnell addressed a diverse public audience at the Museum of English Rural Life on the subject of the Caribbean Pastoral. Drawing on the work of Caribbean poets Derek Walcott and Olive Senior, she discussed … Continue reading

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Dr Neil Cocks gives a public lecture on the Ladybird archive

Dr Sue Walsh writes: On March 1st Dr Neil Cocks gave an open lecture on ‘The Ladybird Archive atReading’.  He was introduced by Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, the director of CIRCL (Reading’s Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, … Continue reading

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