Reading objects, images and documents: postgraduate workshop

The Museum of English Rural Life is hosting Reading objects, images and documents, a postgraduate workshop on Tuesday 3 November, from 11am to 4pm. It's the second session in the University of Reading's 'researching with collections' series, and the whole thing is run by the museum's own archivists, librarians and curators.

The session is a hands-on one. You'll be working directly with items from the University's archive, art, rare book and museum object collections, learning how to 'read' them and building your confidence in handling and understanding different types of materials. It's not a lecture; you're actually getting your hands on the stuff.

That's just one part of a wider programme. The series runs as a flexible set of five sessions, and this is the second. The others are online workshops covering how to navigate collections, theories and methods for collections-based research, absences in collections, and digital research with collections. You don't have to do the whole lot — you can attend as many or as few as you like, so if this is the only one that fits your schedule, that's fine.

It runs from 11am to 4pm on Tuesday 3 November, five hours in total, at The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL), 6 Redlands Road, Reading RG1 5EX. Entry is free for postgraduate students.