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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
June 4, 2015

Volunteers' Voice: Shreeya & Rasmi

Today’s Volunteers’ Week post is by Shreeya & Rasmi, students from a local secondary school, who volunteered to help us…

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Alison Hilton
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Published Date
June 3, 2015

Volunteer's Voice: Sophie

This week is Volunteers’ Week and we are celebrating the wonderful work done by our volunteers and thanking them for…

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
June 3, 2015

Volunteers' Voice: Lisa

Today’s Volunteers’ Week post is by Lisa, who’s been volunteering at MERL since 2012… I joined MERL as a Volunteer…

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
June 2, 2015

Volunteers' Voice: Alessandra

This week is Volunteers’ Week and we are celebrating the wonderful work done by our volunteers and thanking them for…

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
June 1, 2015

Volunteers' Voice: Celebrating Volunteers Week!

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
May 21, 2015

Sew Engaging at the Rising Sun

Dr Jane McCutchan is back in Reading for the latest stage of  the Sew Engaging project… Drop in at Rising Sun…

Author
Claire Wooldridge
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Published Date
May 21, 2015

Discovering the Landscape #15: The Chelsea Flower Show

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
May 11, 2015

Rural Reads review: Far from the Madding Crowd

As the Rural Reads Plus book group is now taking inspiration from the University of Reading’s Special Collections as well…

Author
Alison Hilton
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Published Date
May 7, 2015

What have we been up to? Our Country Lives Top 10 #2