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  • TEA & TESTIMONY

    History on TV As part of Explore Your Archives, Reading historians Professor Kate Williams  and Dr Jacqui Turner will chat about the effect of the media on public history. Is history now just another commodity? Can archives really be described… Continue reading

  • HISTORY STAFF ON BBC

    Our World-leading experts are often contacted by the media to share their research and knowledge This Monday Professor Joel Felix will discuss  the French Revolution on BBC radio at 11.00 and  Professor of Public Engagement Kate Williams will appear on… Continue reading

  • STENTON LECTURE STUDENT COMPETITION

    This year Stenton Lecture will be given by Professor Anne Curry and will commemorate the 600th Anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. To celebrate this great occasion, we have launched a new student competition! Can you name the famous actors… Continue reading

  • Model United Nations

    On the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, third year student Katie Alice Doughty talks about one of Reading’s most successful initiatives! Model United Nations, or more affectionately MUN, is quite possibly the most fun and rewarding society you could… Continue reading

  • STUDY ABROAD TALKS

      Want to study abroad as part of your degree?  Not sure how to go about it? Afraid you cannot afford it? Get in touch with the Study Abroad Team and attend their talks to find all the answers!  … Continue reading

  • STENTON LECTURE 2015

            Join Us on 19th November, 2015  at 6.30 to celebrate the Founders of our Department! The Stenton Lecture, an annual lecture by an eminent historian, is hosted by the Department every year in late November. It is… Continue reading

  • Suffragette … but what happened next?

    By Dr Jacqui Turner     With the release of the Suffragette film this month there has been an explosion of interest in women’s suffrage movements, especially in militant suffrage and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). However consideration… Continue reading

  • Annual Joint Seminar 2015: Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies & Department of Archaeology

    Prof Roberta Gilchrist   Glastonbury Abbey Excavations: Reassessing the Medieval Monastery Thursday 22nd October at 4.30  Palmer Building Room 105 Followed by drinks in Humss G27L   For further information contact  Dr Anne Lawrence a.e.mathers-lawrence@reading.ac.uk Or Amanda Harvey a.h.harvey@reading.ac.uk Continue reading

  • Spaces and Places of Childhood and Youth

    By Dr Jeremy Burchardt This was the final event of the Department’s 2014-15 Annual Research Theme, on the history of childhood and youth.  Children’s history is very much an academic growth area, and the aim of the symposium was to… Continue reading

  • American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2016

    ‘Looking Back at Obama’ Call for Papers Dr Mara Oliva & PhD candidate Dafydd Townley will be hosting the forty-second annual conference of the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association at the Department of History, University of Reading (UK)… Continue reading