Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

• Edward Bawden : illustration and design
• New Special Collections acquisitions - on display at the University Library, Whiteknights campus.

There have been a number of exhibitions featuring items from the Special Collections and the library and archives of the Museum of English Rural Life including:

2011

• Early Modern Studies exhibition 
• Pen and Sword: highlights from the Leo Cooper archive
• Longman and Macmillan: hidden gems from the archives
• Robert Gibbings: artist, author and wood-engraver 

2010

• Christmas cards from artists exhibition
• A circle and a century
• Festival of Britain exhibition
• Rena Gardiner exhibition
• The art and craft of Sutton's exhibition
• Victorian decorated publishers' bindings

2009

• Christmas cards from artists exhibition
• Bernard Spencer exhibitions
• Charles Darwin - an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the origin of species.  
• C.F. Tunnicliffe - books and other items illustrated by Charles Tunnicliffe, the acclaimed writer and wildlife artist.
• The old English countryman and farmer 
• Digitisation of Countryside Images Project- an exhibition of some of the images digitised from glass plate negatives by a JISC-funded Museum of English Rural Life project.
• 15 years of Two Rivers Press 
• We’re off to see the Wizard …- items from the Wizard of Oz Collection
• The world in pictures: books and charts made with Isotype

2008

• Talwin Morris - Art Nouveau book cover designs
• Variety is the spice of life! - exhibition featuring items from the Great Exhibition Collection
• Artwork and photographs from our archive collections
• Overstone exhibition
• Gaberbocchus Press exhibition

Pre-2008

• Pocket cathedrals : constructing the book beautiful during the British private press movement (new updated and illustrated version now available)
• Greek and Roman classics in 17th and 18th century editions
• Robert Gibbings: a centenary exhibition. 1989
• A.C. Cooper, wood-engraver
• Charles Mozley exhibition: artist, illustrator and graphic designer
• Treasures: lots more where these come from!: an exhibition to coincide with the launch of the Centre for Writing, Publishing & Printing History

Featured items

Our Featured items also give a flavour of other gems from our collections.