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Welcome to the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies

Wednesdays & Thursdays
9am - 12noon

Planned Closure
Thursday, 12 March 2026
We will open instead on
Friday, 13 March 2026

If you need access to our holdings outside these hours, please contact us  by email.

* Save the Date *

Celebrating 300 Years of Gulliver’s Travels

The Eighth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift

25-27 October 2026

Call for Papers (Deadline 15 Jan 2026)

More details to follow...

Exhibition

The Tale of Swift’s Whale:  Three Hundred Years of Whale Imagery in Swift’s A Tale of a Tub (1704)

(30 Nov 2023 - 29 Feb 2024)

(30 Nov 2023 - 29 Feb 2024) The Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies is pleased to announce that Dr Corrina Readioff has curated an exhibition for the Ehrenpreis Centre to be displayed in the library of the English Department at the University of Münster (second floor).
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The Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies is pleased to announce that it will host an exhibition exploring The Tale of Swift’s Whale, curated by Dr Corrina Readioff, University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Department of English (Department Library, Second Floor).

Running for three months, from 30 November 2023 (Swift‘s birthday) to 29 February 2024, the exhibition will not only highlight the most striking holdings of the Ehrenpreis Centre but also tell the story of the Tub‘s illustrations over the centuries.

Jonathan Swift Travel Grant

The Friends of the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies invite applications for the Jonathan Swift Travel Grant, a travel stipend issued on an annual basis.

More information here.

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