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On Active Service: Commemorating the Armistice Centenary through poetry
This week, communities across the UK will come together to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918…
Liverpool Readathon
We are joining our friends at Liverpool Learning Partnership to ask everyone to Drop Everything and Read during the #LiverpoolReadathon until Friday 16 November…
Celebrating and growing the Shared Reading Community in the South West
The Reader’s founder and director Jane Davis has been in Bristol to thank the South West region’s volunteers for their…
CALDER STORY: A terrifying tale from the Mansion House
Built in 1828, Calderstones Mansion House is 190 years old this year. Like most surviving, large houses of its…
The International Reading Revolution: Shared Reading in New Zealand
Earlier this month we were delighted to welcome Kate Middleton (no, not that one!) back to our Liverpool HQ. Kate…
First steps with First Page in the North West
Earlier this year we launched an exciting new project that would significantly improve the life chances of children living across…
Reconnecting with Reading Revolutionaries nationwide
This year we’ve been reconnecting with reading revolutionaries up and down the country. Find your nearest event and get in…
Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham Libraries collaborate to bring people together and books to life
Libraries across South Yorkshire are working together for the first time with national charity, The Reader, to give people across…
The Reading Cure – Ten years on…
A decade ago, during the Year of Reading, Blake Morrison wrote a piece for The Guardian about a revolutionary movement in Merseyside…
Half-Term Halloween
‘In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not…
Can we make every day National Poetry Day?
A week on from National Poetry Day, we wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped make…
Jane Davis at Imagination and Wellbeing Conference, September 2018
In September, our founder and director Jane Davis spoke at the Imagination and Wellbeing Conference in Sheffield. The conference brought…
