READING HISTORY

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  • STUDY ABROAD TALKS

      Want to study abroad as part of your degree?  Not sure how to go about it? Afraid you cannot afford it? Get in touch with the Study Abroad Team and attend their talks to find all the answers!  … Continue reading

  • STENTON LECTURE 2015

            Join Us on 19th November, 2015  at 6.30 to celebrate the Founders of our Department! The Stenton Lecture, an annual lecture by an eminent historian, is hosted by the Department every year in late November. It is… Continue reading

  • Suffragette … but what happened next?

    By Dr Jacqui Turner     With the release of the Suffragette film this month there has been an explosion of interest in women’s suffrage movements, especially in militant suffrage and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). However consideration… Continue reading

  • Annual Joint Seminar 2015: Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies & Department of Archaeology

    Prof Roberta Gilchrist   Glastonbury Abbey Excavations: Reassessing the Medieval Monastery Thursday 22nd October at 4.30  Palmer Building Room 105 Followed by drinks in Humss G27L   For further information contact  Dr Anne Lawrence a.e.mathers-lawrence@reading.ac.uk Or Amanda Harvey a.h.harvey@reading.ac.uk Continue reading

  • Spaces and Places of Childhood and Youth

    By Dr Jeremy Burchardt This was the final event of the Department’s 2014-15 Annual Research Theme, on the history of childhood and youth.  Children’s history is very much an academic growth area, and the aim of the symposium was to… Continue reading