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BISCUIT TOWN: 200 YEARS OF HUNTLEY & PALMERS IN READING
Reading is celebrating 200 years of biscuit heritage in 2022 In 1822, one of the most famous names in baking, Huntley & Palmers biscuits, began life as a small baker’s shop in London Street, Reading. Within 40 years, the company that created Nice biscuits, the Gingernut and Bath Olivers, was exporting its goods across the […]
Find out more »BISCUIT TOWN 200: BISCUIT CRUMB TRAIL
Explore Huntley & Palmers heritage on a self-led walk between The MERL & Reading Museum Pick up a free leaflet at The MERL or Reading Museum and discover significant places from Huntley & Palmers' history in the area between The MERL and Reading Museum. See the location of Joseph Huntley's first baker's shop and the […]
Find out more »BISCUIT TOWN: FAMILY ACTIVITY PACK
This pack is full of fun things to do at The MERL and Reading Museum, and back at home, including colouring sheets, gallery trails, crafts and recipes, all inspired by our Huntley & Palmers collections, which you can see in a special exhibition at The MERL and in the Huntley & Palmers gallery at Reading […]
Find out more »INGRID POLLARD: THERE-AND-THEN
Image © Ingrid Pollard Explore work by Ingrid Pollard, inspired by poleheads from the MERL collections In this work Ingrid Pollard, Turner Prize nominee, extends the idea that notions of place emerge at meeting points. They result from co-operations, gatherings, and intersections. They are constantly being made and remade afresh, to provide new landscapes in […]
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SOLARGRAPHY AND LUMEN PRINTING
In this masterclass with Jelly artist, Laura De Moxom, you will be introduced to two alternative photographic processes that are a hybrid of analogue and digital methods. These techniques don’t require the use of a darkroom or chemistry – creating beautiful documentation of nature in a way that is accessible and more caring to our […]
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