And then my heart with pleasure fills…
Spring has sprung, and the daffodils here at Special Collections are out in full force! If you’re coming in or even just passing by, take a moment to enjoy them. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: ‘Winter is dead’. AA Milne, When We Were Very Young […]
‘The making of world literature in the 1920s and 1930s’ – don’t miss the last in the current Archives & Texts series!
Professor Daniel Göske, Christian Weiß (Universität Kassel), ‘Inside Narratives: What Archives Tell Us about the Making of World Literature in the 1920s and 1930s’ Marketing international modernism in the 1920s and 1930s was a complex business, not least because of different structures in the publishing world in the U.S., Britain and Europe. Daniel Göske and […]
Happy #WorldBookDay from Special Collections!
It’s #WorldBookDay: a day to celebrate everything book and reading related, from authors to illustrators to publishers… Since 1995, the first Thursday in March has been celebrated as World Book Day, with school children across the UK being given book vouchers and many given the opportunity to go into school dressed as their favourite character […]
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!
Guest post from Dr John Holmes, Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Reading, to celebrate Darwin Day: a global celebration of science and reason held on the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! Today is International Darwin Day, held every year to celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin (he would […]
Seminar series: Archives and Texts
Spring Term 2014 Archives & Texts seminar series Spring Term 2014 Monday 27th January (wk 3) Professor Alexis Weedon and Professor Bob Owens (University of Bedfordshire) ‘Researching the Publishing History of The Pilgrim’s Progress’ Monday 24th February (wk 7) Dr Lucy Pearson (University of Newcastle) ‘We met at a party’: Professional children’s publishing and the […]
OBE for Beckett expert
Welcome back! We start the new year with some exciting news for our Beckett scholars. Emeritus Professor Jim Knowlson was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to literary scholarship. Jim is the world’s leading expert on the Nobel-prize winning novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett and the founder of Reading’s Beckett […]
The word spreads about ‘Reading at War’… even Tony Blackburn’s talking about it!
The Reading Connections project aims to develop community engagement through the creation of digital resources, oral histories, exhibitions around the theme of ‘Reading at War’ and local Reading photography based on a partnership MERL and Reading Museum. Here, Reading at War Project Officer Phillipa Heath talks about the Memorial Book and local interest in it. At […]
Readerships and literary cultures 1900-1950
Archivist Nancy Fulford reports back from the first of the University’s ‘Archives and Texts’ seminars. For information on the rest of the series, see http://archivesandtexts.wordpress.com/. ‘Readerships and literary cultures 1900-1950’ was the first in this autumn’s series of Archives and Texts seminars; this session was given by Dr Erica Brown of Sheffield Hallam University. Erica has established an […]
MERL Seminar Series 2013: Women and the Countryside
Here at Special Collections, we’re linked to the collections and work of the Museum of English Rural Life. Our visitors may be interested in this year’s MERL Seminar Series, which focuses on women and the countryside. For further information, see the MERL Seminars page. Looking for Lavinia: An American collector in 1930s Berkshire Dr Bridget […]
Archives & Texts lecture series
An autumn series from the Department of English Literature and Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, open to all University members. Monday 21 October (wk 3) Dr Erica Brown (English, Sheffield Hallam) ‘Building an archive of popular fiction 1900–50: Sheffield Hallam University’s Readerships and Literary Cultures collection’ Monday 4 November (wk 5) Dr Nicola Abram (English, […]