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US Election Special: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns of the 2016 Race to the White House (1/3)
By Dafydd Townley In just ten months time the United States electorate will vote on who will be the 45th President of the United States. The first primaries start next month in New Hampshire with the party debates between the… Continue reading
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Part 2 Students: Teach First and Pizza Lunch!
Date: Wednesday 3rd February from 1-2pm Venue: HUMSS 128 Join Teach First for a pizza lunch to discover more about their special route to accelerate your leadership career in education, business and beyond. Teach First is a graduate employer, who… Continue reading
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Part 2 Students: Career Development Opportunity with Microsoft
Microsoft will be on campus on Monday 18th January, from 1-2 pm, to advertise their graduate entry scheme, plus 120 internships for second-year students. Microsoft recruits across all disciplines – not just computer science! For further details and to book… Continue reading
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Medieval Christmas Celebrations
by Dr Ruth Salter Feasting at King Arthur’s court, British Library MS Royal 20 D. iv. f.1r. It was Christmas at Camelot, and there was the king with his leading lords and all his best soldiers, the famous company of… Continue reading
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Inventing the English Christmas
Professor Anne Lawrence-Mathers Did the Anglo-Saxons have a midwinter festival before the coming of Christianity and Christmas? Most of what is documented comes from the work of the Venerable Bede (c672-735). His references to pagan practices suggest distaste for what… Continue reading
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Christmas under Cromwell
by Dr Rachel Foxley In modern Britain – in spite of what some of the papers sometimes say – you would have to look quite hard to find anyone who made no concessions at all to Christmas. Many people without… Continue reading
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Christmas 2015: A Pre-Modern Christmas
This year the Department of History’s seasonal theme is ‘A Pre-Modern Christmas’. The halls have been deced in the department and we have a caption competition for our students running at the moment. The competiton is based on Pieter Bruegel… Continue reading
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Suffregette: ‘Film and Fact’
This Thursday Reaing Film Theatre are showing the film Suffregette (2015), 8-10pm Palmer Building. To mark the screening we are reposting Dr Jacqui Turner‘s excellent blog post from October ‘Suffregette…but what happened next?’ – enjoy! *please note small editorial changes… Continue reading
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Seminar in Global History
10th February 2016, 5pm, Henley Business School S G15 In February Dr Miles Larmer (University of Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Localising Africa’s Cold War: The Katangese Gendarmes and Conflict in Central Africa, 1960-1978’. Miles’ research focuses on political and… Continue reading
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Insight Day for Part 1 students interested in Careers in Law
The end of the first term of your degree course is not too soon to start exploring graduate career options! Here is a special opportunity: Macfarlanes are offering an insight day for first year students of any three year undergraduate… Continue reading
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