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  • European Integration History Seminar

    Wednesday 20 March British Foreign Policy in the 1970’s 11.00 – 12.30 HumSS G10 Matt Broad Reading The Danish Connection: Anglo -Scandinavian relations, NORDEK and the first enlargement of the EEC Kai Hebel Oxford London’s ‘lemon strategy’: Britain, détente, and… Continue reading

  • Department of History seminars, Spring and Summer Term

    Wednesday 30 January 2013, 5.00pm, HumSS124 ‘The American Left and the Creation of a Welfare State, 1913-2013’ Prof. Rhodri Jefffreys-Jones, School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh Wednesday 27 February 2013, 5.00pm, HumSS124 TBA Dr Julie… Continue reading

  • Political History Network Seminar

    Thursday 15 November Venue TBC 3-5.30pm Naomi Lloyd-Jones, KCL ‘Wales and the First Irish Home Rule Crisis’ Dan Renshaw, Reading ‘Assimilation and Alienation’ James Freeman. Exeter ‘Conservative Freedom works’ Convenor: Jason Parry (j.parry@reading.ac.uk) Continue reading

  • European Integration History Seminar

    Wednesday 7 November HumSS 142 12.30pm: Jan de Graff, Portsmouth Creating the Socinform, 1943-1948 1.30pm: Jonathan Golub, Reading The Council of Ministers (title tbc) Convenor: Linda Risso (l.risso@reading.ac.uk) Continue reading

  • Department of History Seminars, Autumn Term 2013

    Wednesday 17 October 1-2pm HumSS 125 Linda Risso, Reading ‘Preaching to the converters? The NATO Information Service during the Cold War’ Wednesday 31 October 5-7pm HUMSS 124 Leslie Theibert, Yale University ‘The Western Design and the Cromwellian Vision of Empire’… Continue reading

  • Stenton Lecture 2013

    Stenton 2012 flyer War, women and enslavement in Medieval Britain Emeritus Professor John Gillingham, FBA Thursday 22 November 2012 7.30pm Henley Business School, University of Reading, Whiteknights campus Attendance is free but places are limited. To book a place, please… Continue reading

  • Coalitions, Pacts and the Future of British Politics

      by Jason Parry Coalitions and electoral agreements are especially pertinent in today’s political climate. Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats have been much criticized for forming a coalition government with the Conservative Party. The electorate’s resentment towards the Liberals can be… Continue reading

  • History Education

    Still smiling at the end of their first introductory seminar in June, these students are pioneering an exciting new Part 3 module, History Education, offering the chance to test and develop their interest in teaching careers before applying for postgraduate… Continue reading

  • The Gulag Unbound: Remembering Soviet forced labour

    29 June 2012, Cambridge University The Gulag Unbound: conference document Organizers: Alexander Etkind, Cambridge University and Dan Healey, Reading University The history of the Gulag is conventionally understood as a story of enormous injustice and heroic endurance. This story is ‘bound’… Continue reading

  • Liberal Wars conference

    Liberal wars: strategy, history, ideology 6-7 July, 2012, University of Reading Liberalism is not pacifism. The major ‘liberal’- states that attach importance, at least internally, to individual autonomy – have frequently been willing to use military force; they have also,… Continue reading