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Introducing the Reading Connections Project
Welcome to the Reading Connections Project blog. The purpose of this blog is to keep you updated with progress on a new project called Reading Connections. So let’s start at the beginning…. The Arts...
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Historic World Objects at Reading Museum
written by Felicity McWilliams, Project Officer for Reading Connections. One of the main strands, or themes, of the Reading Connections project is ‘World Cultures’. A large part of this will involve...
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Reading collections and rural communities
What did the Canadian-born Berkshire landowner Horatio Bland (1802-1876) have in common with an American called Lavinia Smith (1870-1944) who came to live much of her life in the English countryside?...
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The Evacuee Archive
From the album of Rosemary Maud Goddin, a teacher evacuated with her school to Gamlingay, Cambs Zoe Watson, Archivist and Project Manager: I’m working on cataloguing the Evacuee Archive as part of the...
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Digitising MERL’s Local Photographic Collections
Written by Danielle Mills, Digitisation/Data Officer for Reading Connections. Local photography is one of the themes of the Reading Connections project and a large part of my role is to digitise and...
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Internship Opportunities
Would you like to gain experience of working in museums and archives or know someone who would? Yes? The Reading Connections project team are looking for three enthusiastic people to join them as...
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New gadget alert!
Written by Danielle Mills, Digitisation/Data Officer for Reading Connections MERL have recently had an ICAM ‘GUARDIAN’ camera installed for the ‘Reading Connections’ project, funded by Arts Council...
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Reading Connections and Craft: Baskets, corn dollies and more!
The basketry collection at MERL. One of the five themes of the Reading Connections project is craft, and this is what I’m working on when I’m not helping Felicity with the Historic World Objects work...
View ArticleNEWS: A-Z of MERL collections launched
We are very pleased to announce the launch of the A-Z index of MERL’s archive collections which has been undertaken as part of the Reading Connections project. This is an extremely useful resource and...
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Reading Connections – April to July update
It has been a busy few months for the project team – working out what we need to do, how we are going to do it, and then getting stuck into actually doing it. We have also been skills sharing and...
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Internship Blog Post – Ceri Lumley
I have recently begun an internship with the Museum of English Rural Life. The draw of local history, and in particular that of rural tight-knit communities, was something which as a person with strong...
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The Chronicle Collection
Sophie Fitzpatrick – Project Officer One strand of the Reading Connections project is to create a web resource, in which material from the collections will be made viewable online. I am working largely...
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Trip to the ARA Conference 2013
Recently the three archivists on the project attended a day of the Archives and Records Association annual conference in Cardiff, which had the theme of ‘Accountability, Culture & Ethics’. The key...
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Internship Blog Post – Sarah Beattie
I am just over halfway through my internship at Reading Museum, and I’m really enjoying the experience so far. Having always loved history, and particularly the way that objects are able to bring it...
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Reading at War – WW1 commemorations and Flickr
By Hayley Whiting – Digital Content and Online Engagement Officer A key theme of the Reading Connections project is Reading at War. The University of Reading holds in its archive a volume put together...
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Historic World Objects: photography and beyond
Felicity McWilliams – Project Officer This summer was very busy for the Historic World Objects team. By the middle of July we had pretty much put together the final shortlist of the six hundred objects...
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War poets at the University of Reading
The WW1 memorial book at the University Reading is full of fascinating stories. The book has been digitised and can be seen on our Flickr site. Over the next few months we will be looking at some of...
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Berkshire in The First World War History Project visit to MERL
Danni Mills (Reading Connections Digitsation/Data Officer) and I recently hosted a visit from Berkshire in The First World War History Project group . They were keen to see the sort of archives we...
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The word spreads about ‘Reading at War’… even Tony Blackburn’s talking about it!
At this time of year many of us will reflect on those who have fought for their country and, in particular, on those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. As we approach Remembrance Day, the local...
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Internship blog post – Evelyn Williams
I have been volunteering at Reading Museum since 2010 first as part of the Reminiscences Project, then Historypin and most recently Revealing Reading’s Hidden History. Through the internship, I have...
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