ReadingHistory
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Visit of Dr Mark Edele, University of Western Australia
In February 2010 Dr Mark Edele, UWA, made an exchange visit to the Department of History, University of Reading. He is the author of Soviet veterans of the Second World War (OUP, 2008). He is about to finish a new more general study… Continue reading
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Ice cold in Paris
Suddenly in late February it began to feel like spring. It’s hard to believe quite how cold it was at the beginning of February when I took my final year Special Subject undergraduate students to Paris and Reims for a… Continue reading
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A bas les éditeurs!
By Professor David Stack In danger of being lost amidst the many centenaries, bicentenaries and jubilees modern historians are set to mark in 2012, is a significant 21st birthday. In the fairly recent past what the Americans call the ‘age of… Continue reading
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Pomegranate Queen
by Professor Lindy Grant Pomegranate season – my local Turkish shop sells delicious pomegranates, and I can’t resist them. The fruits look so exotic, especially when there are still traces of pink petal in the gaping navel at the top… Continue reading
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Propaganda and nostalgia for ‘traditional’ sex
By Dan Healey Last week Russia’s most ‘liberal’ metropolis, St Petersburg, passed on first reading a repugnant law that will remind an older generation of British gays and lesbians of Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic ‘Section 28’. The Conservative prime minister’s 1988… Continue reading
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