We had a chance to see it today. Spacious, clean, quiet. Plenty of places to sit and read or write or think. Love it!

Our Reading Writers 2026 Competition results: readingwriters.wordpress.com/2026/06/13/2...

For National Biscuit Day we are sharing this photograph. Trains delivered H&P biscuit tins around the country and brought visitors to Reading. Just like this excursion party to Huntley & Palmers in 1934. Museum object no. 1999.2.9 Reading Museum

it's not every day we welcome a visitor in a tuxedo

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

‪ Reading Writers' Not the Oscars 2026: We had a mysterious beach, dinosaurs, zombies (with Brad Pitt!), and killer rabbits. But who wants to hear about all that? readingwriters.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/n...

When one only wants to write a bit of horror, but the sun persists in trying to coax you outside...

Reading Abbey, 177 years apart... Watercolour of Reading Abbey ruins by Mary Webster, drawn from nature 16th August 1849, and a photo of the same ruin by Dagmara Mętel in 2026. Make sure to check out our ongoing exhibition Reading: Then and Now for more trips down memory lane!

And then in six months you're like actually, it's not that bad!

Rivers, Ruins, & Regency, 2024: Reading mural by Stuart Melrose and Kev Munday. Spot Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde!! You can find more info here: www.kevmunday.co.uk/readingstati...

What connects 70s horror The Wicker Man and kids TV classic Bagpuss? Well, both feature ‘Sumer is icumen in’ one of the earliest pieces of English music. The 750-year-old manuscript is at Reading Museum until 9 May, on loan from the British Library. www.readingmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sumer-icumen

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Happy spring! youtu.be/sQiPtneudlo?...

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Our modest little write-up of Novelists' Day: readingwriters.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/n...

This is quite something. A manuscript found at Reading Abbey returns to the town some 760 years after it was written, on display at @readingmuseum.bsky.social. More significantly, the manuscript features ‘Sumer Is Icumen In’ - the oldest known secular song in the English language #rdg #rdguk

Today several of us had a very productive Novelists' Day, where we dug in deep to discuss extracts of our novels with other group members. We all went home feeling inspired.

We had another successful Weird Research session at last night's meeting. For example, we learned about "snot snakes", aka hagfishes. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how... We also learned a lot about lesser-known vampire lore (if a vampire is hassling you, toss seeds at it so it's compelled to count them).

Hello, hello! We're a little late to the party, but glad to be on Bluesky.