License our content

Sell our bespoke products

We are developing a range of bespoke gifts inspired by our collections. If you would like to stock these in your gift shop, please contact us at merl@reading.ac.uk

Commercial Use

Whether it’s for use in a book or TV programme or on a fabulous new product, content from our collections is widely used by authors, artists and designers. Our customers include BBC and Channel 4, Liberty, Paperchase, English Heritage and most major publishers.

As well as content from the MERL we can also license material from the University’s Special Collections. Our prices are always competitive and as members of BAPLA we meet industry standards.

Contact us through merl@reading.ac.uk to start the conversation.

Non-commercial use

Want to use our content for a non-commercial purpose? We make a lot of content available under Creative Commons.

Contact merl@reading.ac.uk to start the conversation.