JAMES JOYCE: A LOVE OF LANGUAGE EXHIBITION
The Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection was bequeathed to the University of Reading in 2020. To coincide with the opening of James Joyce’s library of books and objects for public access, the Special Collections team have created a display to celebrate James Joyce’s love of language. This first exhibition of items from the Solange […]
Openness in Research: The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)
Virtual Volunteering with Special Collections in the Archives of British Printing and Publishing . We are thrilled to announce that the Special Collections and The MERL team have won one of the University of Reading’s 2023 research awards, selected for the ‘Openness in Research’ category. In this blog, Project Archivist, Helena Clarkson describes the project […]
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 […]
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 […]