Cataloguing the Mills and Boon Book Collection
The Mills and Boon Book Collection at the University of Reading is a collection of over 4,000 books from the Mills and Boon back catalogue, published between 1909 and 2011. Now, as well as being able to browse digital images of the dust jackets on the Virtual Reading Room, researchers can search the full […]
Christopher Okigbo and the politics of publication (3/3)
This is the third and final post in a series written by Temiloluwa Odugbesan, who completed a UROP placement at the University of Reading Special Collections in the summer of 2021. In my final post, I’m going to delve a little bit more into the workings of the publisher and the issues some writers faced during […]
Gustav Holst’s music students
Gustav Holst’s Music Scholarship Pupils at University College, Reading 1920–1923: Part 3 Written by Philippa Tudor who researches and writes about previously unexplored aspects of the life and work of Gustav Holst and his family. She is the author of a 2015 biography of Holst’s wife Isobel. Although Gustav Holst only taught at Reading for […]
Gustav Holst: teaching and performing music
Gustav Holst’s Music Scholarship Pupils at University College, Reading 1920–1923: Part 2 Written by Philippa Tudor who researches and writes about previously unexplored aspects of the life and work of Gustav Holst and his family. She is the author of a 2015 biography of Holst’s wife Isobel. Holst’s teaching methods Holst’s first scholarship pupil Edmund […]
Gustav Holst at Reading
Gustav Holst’s Music Scholarship Pupils at University College, Reading 1920–1923: Part 1 Written by Philippa Tudor who researches and writes about previously unexplored aspects of the life and work of Gustav Holst and his family. She is the author of a 2015 biography of Holst’s wife Isobel. As a new generation of music education students […]
Audio-Visual Beckett: Forgotten Gems from the Beckett Collection
Written by Dr Lucy Jeffery, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre When we think of Samuel Beckett and an audio-visual collection, Shades for ‘The Lively Arts’ series, broadcast on Sunday 17 April 1977 on BBC 2, comes to mind. And yes, Ghost Trio, …but the clouds…, and Not I are all worth watching, but […]
Postal Notation: Melanie Daiken and Samuel Beckett
Written by Xander Ryan, graduate student in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading When Melanie Daiken moved to Paris in 1966 she wrote to Samuel Beckett, a friend of her father’s, telling him that she was on her way. He replied that he was happy to meet her, and gave her […]
Provenance, suffrage and female historians: The sixteen books of C.E. Hodge
Beware! A warning – to Suffragists (1908?) by Cicely Hamilton. Stenton Collection. Bethan Davies is our outgoing Academic Liaison Support Librarian. In this blog, she speaks about sixteen books within the Stenton Collection, and identifying their former owner, C.E. Hodge. The beginnings of this story start with the various celebrations to mark #Vote100, the centenary of the […]
Recovering Publishing Histories: the Adam & Charles Black Letterbooks
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology) The publishing house Adam and Charles Black was established in 1834 in Edinburgh. Now its archive is held in University of Reading Special Collections, and over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at one part of the collection – the Letterbooks containing delicate copies […]
The Queen’s Resolve: Queen Victoria in the Special Collections
Following the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth, Liaison Librarian Bethan Davies takes a closer look at our Special Collections and the surprising connections with the famous monarch. Housed in the red brick building designed by Alfred Waterhouse for Alfred Palmer, it is hard not to see the connection between the Victorians and Special Collections. […]