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The Joy of Ephemera

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Wiltshire Local History Forum

I and two colleagues from the History Centre and Salisbury Library were lucky enough to pay a visit to the welcoming staff and volunteers at the Centre for Ephemera Studies at the University of Reading https://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/research/typ-researchcentres.aspx recently. I’d like to … Continue reading →

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