READING HISTORY

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  • The Spirit of ’45 and working-class history

    By Jason Parry A confused and bumbling Winston Churchill being booed during an outdoor election meeting in 1945 is one of the defining scenes from Spirit of ’45, a new Ken Loach documentary which celebrates Labour’s landslide election victory. In… Continue reading

  • EMRC Colloquium

    Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in early Modern Europe Friday 26 April 2013 10.30-10.45 Coffee & Registration 10.45-12.45 Session 1 (Chair: Dr Esther Mijers, University of Reading) Dr Arjan van Dixhoorn (University of Ghent), ‘Towards a Cultural… Continue reading

  • Summer Term Seminars

    Wednesday 1 May, 5.00pm, HumSSG74 Dr Holger Nehring, Department of History, University of Sheffield ‘The Last Battle of the Cold War: Peace Movements and German politics’. Wednesday 8 May, 5.00pm, HumSSG74 Prof. Suzanne Schwartz, Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts,… Continue reading

  • Europe in Context: “European integration in the 1970s”, Wednesday, 20 March 2013

    “European integration in the 1970s” 11:00-12:30 – Room G10 (HumSS) BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE 1970s Matt Broad (Reading), The Nordic Connection: British foreign policy and the NORDEK treaty, 1968-1973. Kai Hebel (Oxford), ‘London’s “lemon strategy”: Britain, détente, and the… Continue reading

  • Pope Benedict XVI to resign

    Dr Rebecca Rist, Senior Lecturer in History, Department of History: Pope Benedict XVI has stepped down as pope at the age of 85. It is very rare for a pope to resign. The medieval Pope Celestine V resigned in 1294… Continue reading