Tuesday 26 February 2013, 7.30pm, Henley Business School, Whiteknights campus Professor Dan Healey, Department of History In 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s groundbreaking work The Gulag Archipelago was published for the first time in Paris. Banned in Soviet Russia, the book traces… Continue reading

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

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

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

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