READING HISTORY

ReadingHistory

  • RUSU Excellence Awards

    By Professor David Stack, Head of Department Every year the RUSU Excellence Awards honour those staff who students regard as having “gone above and beyond their expectations, tirelessly working to improve the delivery of their teaching and learning experience”.  It… Continue reading

  • Childhood history or children’s history?

    By Dr Jeremy Burchardt (Director of the Annual Research Theme) Each year the Department of History chooses an Annual Research Theme(ART) to provide a focus for our research-related activities. For 2014-15, the research them is the history of childhood and… Continue reading

  • Deidre Barlow, “Everywoman”

    By Sean Atkinson Deidre Barlow, played by Anne Kirkbride, lit up the television screens of many over her forty-two years on Coronation Street. Everyone could relate to the character of Deidre Barlow.  In 1972, a young Deidre Barlow, walked down… Continue reading

  • Did the Cathars Exist?

    Dr Rebecca Rist   Who were the Cathars? Traditionally they have been seen as dissenters from Catholic doctrine living in the south of France and Northern Italy during the High Middle Ages. Cathar beliefs were supposed to derive from Bogomilism,… Continue reading

    Did the Cathars Exist?

  • Professor Edith Morley: The Struggles of an Educated Victorian Woman

    Congratulations to our second year student Erin Shearer on winning our undergraduate student blog competition! Erin nominated Professor Edith Morley for our Temple of Worthies. Her blog was the most read with 317 views at the closing of the competition… Continue reading