Letters from the front: A soldier’s experiences in the First World War
To mark Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday this weekend, we are reposting this blog from the John Rylands Library Special Collections blog. Letters from the Front: A Soldier's Experiences in the First World WarPenny Blackburn, an archive volunteer, writes: The...
Networks and Individuals: Opportunities and challenges in mapping relationships through the study of correspondence
The Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network’s three events for semester 1 take the form of four 10-minute lightning talks with 40 minutes of interdisciplinary discussion following, with a special focus on methodological issues and the sharing of best practices.The...
Seminar 2: Curating correspondence – 9 November 2017
Please join us for our second seminar this semester. Four lightening talks will spotlight projects and emerging issues related to curating correspondence, followed by discussion (full details in poster below). 9 November 2017, 5pm - 6.30pm, The Christie Room, The John...
Editing modernist letters workshop
Editing Modernist Letters WorkshopThursday 2nd November 2017 Venue: Special Collections/MERL, University of Reading, 6 Redlands Rd, Reading, RG1 5EX The archival turn in modernist studies has been closely intertwined with the publication of private correspondence....
Networks & individuals – 12 October 2017, 5pm
Poster design: Andrew Wilshere @andrewwilshere ‘Network & Individuals' 12 October, 5-6.30pm, The Christie Room, the John Rylands Library 10-minute lightning talks and discussion focused on researching individuals within networks through letters. Session will...
Reader services curious finds – comic figures
Today's Curious Find comes from Reader David Fletcher, who was consulting the Stamford Papers, specifically George Harry Grey's letter to his sister Jane. Whilst researching the letter, David found 2 delightful comic decoupage figures - very neatly cut from the same...
Semester 1 seminars
Details of talks at each session will be circulated soon.Limited funds are available to subsidise postgraduate students joining for dinner; please let us know in your RSVP for dinner if you are a postgraduate.Poster design: Andrew Wilshere @andrewwilshere Related...
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