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  • Socialism and the Vampire: Comrades, Capitalists and Bloodsuckers

    by Dr Dan Renshaw In May 1897 Constable and Co published a limited print run of a new novel by a London-based Irish theatre manager and occasional author named Bram Stoker.  Stoker had enjoyed moderate critical recognition with a series… Continue reading

    Socialism and the Vampire: Comrades, Capitalists and Bloodsuckers
  • You are invited to the launch of the Monroe Group

    The newly established Monroe Group is an interdisciplinary research network for the study of politics in the Americas. The network is designed to encourage dialogue between scholars in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences working on all aspects of… Continue reading

    You are invited to the launch of the Monroe Group
  • Registration now open for ‘Trump’s First 100 Days’ 2nd May, 2017

    We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the forthcoming conference ‘Trump’s First 100 Days’, 2nd May 2017. A copy of the conference programme is available below.  Registrations should be made via the University of Reading’s Conferences… Continue reading

    Registration now open for ‘Trump’s First 100 Days’ 2nd May, 2017
  • Co-living: Utopia 2.0?

    by Dr Andy Willimott [1] Eight months on from its opening, in May 2016, the London-based co-living enterprise known as The Collective Old Oak is still going strong. The residential concept, situated between North Acton and Wilesden Junction, now boasts… Continue reading

    Co-living: Utopia 2.0?
  • So that was International Women’s Day…

    by Dr Jacqui Turner So yesterday was International Women’s Day and women were everywhere – literally we were all over the place, in the media, online, on TV and crowded around both front benches in the House of Commons as,… Continue reading

    So that was International Women’s Day…