READING HISTORY

ReadingHistory

  • 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

  • Public Seminar: 40 years of The Gulag Archipelago

    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