News and Views
Discover stories from our collections, work, research, and events. Warning: may contain absolute units.
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Author
- Joe
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Published Date
- July 27, 2021
Uncovering LGBTQ+ rural histories in archives
Find out the challenges we faced in researching the stories of queer rural people for our July 2021 exhibition, Queer Constellations.
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Author
- Adam Lines
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Published Date
- July 26, 2021
Temporary reading room move – September 2021
Between 31 August and 1 October, the reading room will be moving to the Conference Room to make way for essential maintenance work.
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Author
- Alison Hilton
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Published Date
- July 16, 2021
Introducing Space to Think: Rural Wellbeing, our latest student exhibition
Learn about the latest student exhibition at The MERL, created by third year Museum Studies students at the University of Reading.
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Author
- Joe
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Published Date
- July 15, 2021
Wild Being: supporting social prescribing in Reading
Learn how The MERL and Reading Museum are taking part in Wild Being, a new social prescribing project for the people of Reading.
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Author
- Alison Hilton
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Published Date
- July 8, 2021
Our agricultural museum goes intergalatic (or global, at least)
This year The MERL is hosting the nineteenth annual congress of AIMA. Find out what AIMA is and how you can get involved.
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Author
- Joe
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Published Date
- July 8, 2021
51 Voices: A growing understanding
In our latest 51 Voices roundup, discover the four new Voices added in June and the objects and archives they explore.
