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Alison Hilton
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Published Date
November 17, 2015

Exploring the world of the archivist…

Before we post her interviews with colleagues later in the week, Whitney, one of our volunteers, explains how she’s been…

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Alison Hilton
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Published Date
November 16, 2015

Explore Your Archive: Introducing Reading Readers

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Alison Hilton
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Published Date
November 16, 2015

Explore Your Archive: People Stories – Emily Eavis

Audience Development Manager, Phillippa Heath, introduces a project in which local school students discovered how archives can be used to research fascinating…

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
November 16, 2015

Explore Your Archive: Let there be drawers…

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
November 12, 2015

Explore Your Archive: 16 to 22 November

Next week is the launch of this year’s Explore Your Archive campaign, which is coordinated by The National Archives and the…

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
November 12, 2015

Rural Reads Review

This October we read Common Ground by Rob Cowen; it was different from our usual rural reads and offered a…

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
November 10, 2015

Volunteers' Voice: day trippers

One of the ways we recognise the efforts of our volunteers each year is to organise a special day out. A…

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Alison Hilton
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Published Date
October 28, 2015

Using history to help patients reminisce at Royal Berkshire Hospital

An artwork of a very rectangular cow from The MERL collection.
Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
October 25, 2015

Consuming the fat cows

Why were livestock in 19th century artworks so rectangular? Read on to learn about the history of agricultural portraiture.