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The MERL Autumn Speaker Series – Mark Allery
The MERL - the Museum of English Rural Life Redlands Road, ReadingShowing, Doing, Telling: Craft And Making A Season Of Events Exploring Craft And Making At The MERL Specialists in craft and the arts examine different ways of responding to rural life, exploring how best to nurture old skills, contemporary creative responses and traditional practice. In this talk, woodsman, bodger and scythesman Mark Allery joins the MERL […]
The MERL Autumn Speaker Series – Jack Thacker
The MERL - the Museum of English Rural Life Redlands Road, ReadingShowing, Doing, Telling: Craft And Making A Season Of Events Exploring Craft And Making At The MERL Specialists in craft and the arts examine different ways of responding to rural life, exploring how best to nurture old skills, contemporary creative responses and traditional practice. This talk by Jack Thacker, the current poet-in-residence at the MERL, […]
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication collections and archives open afternoon
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication TOB 2, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, ReadingEntertainment: theatre, music, lotteries, fairs To celebrate 25 years of ephemera studies Typography is hosting themed open afternoons to introduce university colleagues to this amazing source material as inspiration for cross–disciplinary research and other activities. We begin with short talks, including by Rick Poynor on National Theatre posters, David Plant on material from the John […]