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Our Award-Winning Students
Erica Askew-Jones has been awarded the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for outstanding academic achievement. Only 80 awards are given each year, to those students who received the top marks in their subject area. Read on to to find our Erica’s experience of studying at Reading,… Continue reading
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Our Departmental Winners of 2011
PART ONE: Josephine Ayre (Peter Slee Prize for overall best performance in Part One) Lydia Malley (Departmental Prize for the best performance in Directed Study) PART TWO: Rachel Escott (Martyn Bendor-Samuel Memorial Prize for best overall performance in Part Two… Continue reading
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The Stenton Lecture 2011 ‘On the Limits of Democratic Art’
John Howard, Professor of American Studies, King’s College London, 17 November 2011 The annual Stenton lecture explored what is meant by democratic art and examined how art has been used as a weapon by elites to maintain the prevailing social… Continue reading
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RUSU Gold Star award for Dr Matthew Worley
The department’s Dr Matthew Worley was one of only six university staff members selected for a Gold Star Award by Reading University Students Union for 2011. The award is for outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. There were 365 nominations… Continue reading
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Peter Parish Dissertation Prize winner 2010
Congratulations to Daniel Hale who has won the Peter Parish Dissertation Prize for his MA dissertation ‘”Persons of Greatest Credit”: Executive Clemency in Texas, 1849-1865’. This is a notable achievement given that this is a national prize and there is… Continue reading
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