READING HISTORY

ReadingHistory

  • Spotlight on: Dr Rachel Foxley

    Having grown up a few miles further down the Thames valley, coming to Reading in 2004 was a return to home territory. My academic path as a student took me through different subjects as well as three different universities, but… Continue reading

  • Great Britain and Britishness

    By Oliver Finnegan In popular memory, the UK was born in 1707, with both England and Scotland passing their respective Acts of Union creating Great Britain. Union is seen as the recognition of shared nationality by two previously separate peoples… Continue reading

  • 1707 and all that

    By Esther Mijers As a Scottish historian working on the seventeenth-century politician William Carstares, who took part in the Union debates of the early 1700s and who was a staunch proponent, I am probably more attuned to the current debates… Continue reading

  • The Military Mapping of Scotland in the Period of the Jacobite Rebellions

    By Alastair Noble ‘I am going in the dark; for Marechal Wade won’t let me have his map!’ (Quoted in Tabraham, 2007, 25). These words, reported to have been uttered by General Hawley, Commander of Chief of Scotland in 1745, evoke… Continue reading

  • Spotlight on: Professor Patrick Major

    I was born in Greater London but grew up in Yorkshire. I studied History and German at Magdalen College, Oxford, then went on to St. Antony’s, Oxford for a DPhil. I took Tim Mason’s course on the Third Reich and… Continue reading