The New Woman: Five Women Writers of the 1890s
This is the second of two blog posts written by Helen Zeineh as part of a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) project undertaken in the summer of 2022. This post explores the lives and work of five notable ‘New Woman’ writers of the 1890s. The UROP project, ‘Decadent Feminism’, was supervised by Dr. John Scholar […]
Decadent Feminism: ‘New Woman’ Writers in the Special Collections
This is the first of two blog posts written by Helen Zeineh as part of a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) project undertaken in the summer of 2022. Feminism’s debt to nineteenth-century decadence, and women’s contributions to decadence, are rarely acknowledged. This project sought to address this by cataloguing and publicising the University of Reading’s […]
New Special Collections Service Reading Room opening hours
We are pleased to announce that from Tuesday 4 October 2022, we are extending the opening hours of the Special Collections Service Reading Room. We will now be open until 4.30pm from Tuesday to Friday, and will no longer be closed at lunchtimes. The current opening hours are: Tuesday to Friday 9.30am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-4pm Our new […]
Special Collections Service reading room to re-open
We are happy to announce that we will be re-opening the reading room in its usual space from Tuesday 23 November 2021. This means that we will have capacity for up to 10 researchers a day, with full access to the books, journals and pamphlets in the open access library corridor. Opening times will remain […]
Update: Special Collections Reading Room to extend opening hours
From 18 May 2021 we will be extending our opening hours to include Tuesdays for general access to collections through the Special Collections Service reading room. Capacity will remain limited to enable social distancing. We will continue to provide alternative access through our digital access to collections service. If you would like to make a […]
Update: Reading Room to re-open to all researchers
From 14 April 2021 we will be providing access to collections through the Special Collections Service reading room for all those requiring it, although capacity remains limited to enable social distancing. We will continue to provide alternative access through our digital access to collections service. If you would like to make a reading room booking, […]
UPDATE: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM NOW CLOSED
Following the Government’s announcement of a national lockdown on 4 January 2021, the Special Collections Reading Room will be closed until further notice. If you require access to the collections, we will aim to provide this through our digital access to collections service. You can find out more about our collections through our Special Collections […]
UPDATE: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND READING ROOM TO REMAIN OPEN
Following the latest Government announcement that Berkshire will enter Tier 3 on Saturday 19 December 2020, we will be making some changes to our Special Collections Service in the New Year. We will provide access to collections through the Special Collections Service reading room after the Christmas break, on Tuesday 5 January 2021, for academic […]
UPDATE: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM NOW OPEN TO ALL RESEARCHERS
In line with the latest Government announcement that Reading will enter Tier 2 at the end of the national lockdown, the reading room will be open to all researchers from Wednesday 2 December 2020. The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) will also reopen on 2 December. Please note that we can only accept reading […]
Research in Lockdown: the ‘Bees in the Collections’ UROP project
Many research projects have been disrupted or have come to a halt with the lockdowns imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we have been cheered and inspired by reports from a number of our resilient students and researchers who have found ways to continue their study and research during this difficult time. Following on […]