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Discover stories from our collections, work, research, and events. Warning: may contain absolute units.

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…

Author
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.

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
October 23, 2015

Discovering the Landscape #20: James Corner speaks at joint MERL and Landscape Institute Annual Lectures

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
October 14, 2015

Our Country Lives update

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
October 12, 2015

Volunteers' Voice: Young Volunteers programme

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
October 7, 2015

Rural Reads reviews: The Bees by Laline Paull

Rob Davies reviews our latest rural read. This September we read The Bees by Laline Paull. The Bees is set…