The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020 highlights the long history of women’s work as editors and publishers, designers, booksellers, type drawers, illustrators, agents, and more. With thirty-three deeply-researched…Read More >
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Turkish Literature in English: tracing the history of translation
We live in a translated world. Most of what we hear, read, and learn is, in fact, translated. We take these translations for granted as if they were transparent copies…Read More >
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme – showcase winners 2023
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) offers students at the University of Reading the chance to gain hands-on research experience across all disciplines. Every November, UROP holds a showcase event…Read More >
The powerful and personal ways in which landscapes matter
Thanks to the labours of generations of geologists, geographers, archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, we know a great deal about the physical making and cultural representation of landscape. Ironically, however, our…Read More >
An enslaved woman and her children: a story of maternity, infancy, and death in Northern Brazil in the era of Abolition
Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Reading and Professor of History at the University of São Paulo,…Read More >
Sport and the anti-apartheid movement: evidence from the archives
“Sport has the power to change the world.” These memorable words of Nelson Mandela will be the leitmotif for a conference about the role of archives in defending and promoting…Read More >
“The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema” leading the path for archives, art and research at the Alt + Shift + Archive Symposium
At the end of September 2021, the AHRC project The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema (AH/R007012/1) hosted the Alt + Shift + Archive symposium, bringing together a wide range…Read More >
Exploring the The Diasporic Literary Archives Network
The Diasporic Literary Archives Network, based in the University of Reading since 2012, set out to explore the distribution of literary archives around the world, with a special focus on…Read More >
Happy Days – creating art from archives
It is well-known that the University’s Special Collections are home to the world’s largest archive for the Nobel-Prize winning writer, Samuel Beckett with over 600 items of original material, including…Read More >
Votes for women – and £5m to celebrate, 100 years on
by Dr Jacqui Turner, Department of History, University of Reading This week was International Women’s Day and women were everywhere. We were in the media, online, on TV, and crowded…Read More >