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We had a virtual class trip to Reading Museum this afternoon but our discussions were disrupted by a figure in one photograph. Part 1 student Connie has just sent visual evidence of the trouble maker.
Rural history is the history of its people. However, it has often been portrayed through a heterosexual lens, excluding LGBTQIA+ people and voices. In our new blog, join TimothyCAllsop as he shares Queer Rural Connections, a new project exploring queer history in rural spaces.
Find out what Claire Smith has been up to Cole Zoology Museum in our new blog about historic fluid collections as part of Cole Museum Mass Migration natsca.blog/2021/03/04/we-…
To bring you images of the Tapestry at higher resolution than ever, we worked with SmartFrame to build an online platform that enables you to zoom in! So that you can see the Tapestry right down to the smallest stitch.
Just had an amazing talk for my students from tarapirie about the work the team have been doing to move the Cole Museum of Zoology Cole Zoology Museum to its new location Claire Smith @ACallaZoo collections.reading.ac.uk/cole-museum/
Madison Johnson (UoR - Geography and Environmental Science Doctoral and Researcher College, Uni of Reading) uses a Festival of Britain horse brass as a starting point to talk about her PhD research into heavy horse preservation. This is part of the online exhibition #51Voices remembering the founding of The Museum of English Rural Life in 1951 merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/online…
We're all making tissue paper nests with t-shirts. Online museum packaging and storage workshop. Thanks to Clare Plascow University of Reading Art Collection for the ingenuity.
Last December, an auction revealed a remarkable connection between Reading and the last Queen of Madagascar, Queen Ranavalona III. Below, join Reading Libraries's Katie Amos as she explores the life of Clara Herbert: one of the Queen's most loyal companions, and a Reading citizen.
Our friends at Reading Museum have been working with Reading's Caribbean community to commemorate and celebrate #WindrushDay2021 and the enduring contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants to the UK’s cultural, social, and economic life readingmuseum.org.uk/explore/online…
Listen to Professor Katherine Harloe discuss 'Detoxifying the Classics' on BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
'The Imaginary Archaeology' Project is running today ArchaeologyUK #FestivalofArchaeology. This is a purely hypothetical exploration of the site of the 1971 Reading Music Festival. It teaches desk based assessment and asks what happens before you dig. festival.archaeologyuk.org/events/imagina…
