READING HISTORY

ReadingHistory

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: Two Turtle Doves – Boiled!

    By Professor David Stack Charles Darwin was not a romantic. The brutally pragmatic ‘Pros and Cons list’ he wrote before deciding upon marriage to his cousin Emma Wedgwood proves that. We can safely assume that if the nineteenth century’s greatest… Continue reading

    Twelve Days of Christmas: Two Turtle Doves – Boiled!

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: A Partridge in a Pear Tree

    By Professor Anne Lawrence-Mathers The partridge is the only figure in the song which appears every day throughout the twelve days of Christmas. There is an obvious explanation – the partridge is not only the harbinger of holidays (and food… Continue reading

    Twelve Days of Christmas: A Partridge in a Pear Tree

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: The Origins

    By Professor Helen Parish Once again we have a chance to embrace that particularly delightful seasonal treat, untangling the Christmas fairy lights. If the season of goodwill has barely started before the recriminations and apportioning of blame begin, consider the… Continue reading

    Twelve Days of Christmas: The Origins

  • The Rugby World Cup and the Born Free Dancing Victory

    By Dr Heike Schmidt On Saturday 2 November the ‘Springboks’, South Africa’s national rugby team, won the world cup in the final game against England. There has been a much-reported twitter storm in response to one of the Springbok players,… Continue reading

  • Learning to Listen: Diversity and History

    by Prof. David Stack One of the skills required of any good historian is the ability to listen. For those working on oral history projects that means quite literally hearing their subjects speak. For the rest of us it is… Continue reading