Offences against the person? Tracing hidden LGB histories through Berkshire court records and archives
Amy Hitchings and George Stokes
This summer, George Stokes and I worked on the UROP project, Tracing LGB hidden histories through Berkshire Court Records, 1861-1919. We uploaded a blog post on week three of the project and wanted to check back in now to reflect on our research findings and the overall experience…
‘How to be Rural’: Agricultural Instruction in the MERL Collection
Amy Thomas
For the last six weeks I have been working on the ‘How to be Rural’ UROP project, which aimed to begin research into the niche genre of agricultural manuals and handbooks. I have spent my time working in the reading room at the Museum of English Rural Life and looking through the shelves in the MERL and Special Collections library.
Offences against the person? Tracing hidden LGB histories through Berkshire court records and archives
Amy Hitchings and George Stokes
For the past three weeks, we have been working on an undergraduate research internship: tracing hidden LGB histories through Berkshire County records from 1861 until 1919.
Armchair Travellers: Collecting Travel Books in the Seventeenth Century
Hannah Moore
During the last 6 weeks as part of the UROP scheme at the University I have been working in Special Collections housed at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL). Whilst there, I worked with my supervisors in the English Department, Michelle O’Callaghan and Chloe Houston to create a catalogue of Early Modern travel writing.
A Garden Party I would like to have attended…
Cliveden 18th July 1928
#OTD from the Nancy Astor Archive
Rachel Newton
This summer, I have a research internship working with Dr Jacqui Turner on a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) within the History Department and in collaboration with Special Collections here at the University of Reading.
