READING HISTORY

ReadingHistory

  • 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

  • Reading Early Modern Studies Conference

    12-14 July 2012, University of Reading Conference programme Call for papers Booking form For more information about about this conference please follow this link If you would like to have a Word version of the form please contact Jan Cox… Continue reading

  • Statues and public memory in twenty-first century Britain

      by Dr Jeremy Burchardt Look at the photograph below.  What is your reaction? it’s a pompous, embarrassing monument to imperialism.  Knock it down! it’s a precious part of our heritage.  Those were the days! times have changed but we… Continue reading