READING HISTORY

ReadingHistory

  • Spotlight on: Dr Elizabeth Matthew

    I was born in Swansea but grew up in London. I was an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of Durham. My research interests and publications focus on the political and social history of late medieval England and Ireland. I… Continue reading

  • Spotlight on: Dr Heike Schmidt

    I was born in Germany, although I have spent most of my life living elsewhere. I joined the History Department in 2013 as Lecturer in Modern History. My area of expertise is nineteenth and twentieth century African History, in particular… Continue reading

  • 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