READING HISTORY

ReadingHistory

  • 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