Reading the Room is a John Fell funded project at University of Oxford working with National Trust libraries. We will share our research at Erddig, Springhill and 575 Wandsworth Rd throughout the project via X & Instagram. You can read more about the project: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/readin…

Reading the Room is a new John Fell funded project University of Oxford exploring what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, models of interpretation + engagement in libraries & complicating understandings of heritage libraries. english.web.ox.ac.uk/reading-room-b… National Trust Research

A wonderful afternoon with some fantastic people & books at @ErddigNT - discussing the research & heritage potentials of country house libraries, and exploring some wonderful Welsh books. Part of the Reading the Room project with Oxford Uni & National Trust Research. Thanks for the invite!

On Wednesday we held a workshop @ErddigNT with NT colleagues, archivists & researchers. A great afternoon discussing the potential of historic house libraries, how we can respond to the diverse needs of different audiences & looking at the book collections #libraries #rarebooks

We visited Croome NationalTrust last week for a meeting with Rich (NT Cultural Heritage Curator) about interpreting their library space, Robert Adam bookcases and potential future interpretation and engagement opportunities #libraries #historichouse