From Pen to Press
![Joyce's pen](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/05/SSJ-OBJ_002_Joyces_pen_featured-770x365.jpg)
An exhibition featuring highlights from the Special Collections, Archive of British Publishing and Printing to coincide with the Conference for the Society of History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) which will be held at the University of Reading 1-5 July 2024. Image: pen formerly owned by James Joyce dated circa 1935. SSJ-OBJ_002
Fear & Yearning: Meet the Artists event
![Silhouette of a horses head against a pink and grey background](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/04/Fear-Yearning-Titles-featured-770x365.jpg)
Join us for a presentation of short films created by poet Toby Martinez de las Rivas, filmmaker Jane Glennie, and sound artist Neda Milenova Mirova. Together, they question bucolic depictions of rural life, and explore notions of the uncanny, the intangible, and the obscure in relation to landscape, agriculture, and rural social practice. The films […]
James Joyce: a love of language
![Stephen Le Heros by James Joyce, open to title page, surrounded by other books from the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection.](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/09/whatson-featured-Joyce-770x365.jpg)
What is Landscape? on Saturday 9th December
![A photograph of the a Lake District landscape with green fields and trees in the foreground and fells in the distance](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/09/whatson-featured-lake-district-landscape-770x365.jpg)
Annual FOLAR Symposium: Landscape of Communities
![community gardeners laughing and digging in a sunny garden](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/09/whatson-featured-folar-communities-770x365.jpg)
A History of English Georgic Writing
![A black and white photo by John Tarlton showing a man riding two white heavy horses across a field with a hayrick in the background](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/12/whats-on-featured-georgic-writing-770x365.jpg)
FOLAR SYMPOSIUM 2021
![](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/08/FOB_festival_logo_featured-770x365.jpg)
The 1951 Festival of Britain was a national celebration to mark Britian’s achievements and recovery following the Second World War, and was timed to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. In many ways this was also a coming of age for the British landscape architecture profession. On the 70th anniversary of the […]
WHOSE LANDSCAPES? OPEN SPACES SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
![Black and white lantern slide of people walking on a hill](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/06/J51_Demonstration_-_Sunnyside_Bradford_-_1930_featured-770x365.jpg)
This half-day online symposium will explore themes and sources from the Open Spaces Society collection at The MERL. The Open Spaces Society (OSS) is Britain’s oldest national conservation body, founded in 1865 as the Commons Preservation Society. Join us online for short talks, discussion, poetry, and artistic responses. There will be a ‘find the location’ […]
AIMA 2021 – PAST AND FUTURE AGRICULTURES
![](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/05/whatson-featured-AIMA-Unit-770x365.jpg)
Involved in museums of farming life? Then this event is for you… This international congress brings together agricultural and rural museum and heritage professionals from around the world to explore and share their work. It is a rare opportunity for agricultural museum professionals and others interested in farming heritage to discuss engagement, research, collections practice, […]
GROWING HEALTH AND WELLBEING
![Two women gardening side by side](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/03/Gardeningwellbeing-770x365.jpg)
Come and join other health, education & social care professionals to look at how nature-based interventions can be considered alongside other types of therapies for people with long-term health conditions, disabilities or mental health support needs. Free to attend, booking required. If you have any questions about the event please email rgfhwn@gmail.com Agenda 3pm – […]