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  • The emergence of Trump and Sanders: not just a phenomenon confined to the United States?

    by Darius Wainwright President Dwight D Eisenhower once threatened to leave the Republican Party unless it reflected the progressive, centrist principles that he advocated.[i] Were he alive today, it is fair to say that current developments within the GOP would… Continue reading

    The emergence of Trump and Sanders: not just a phenomenon confined to the United States?
  • Popes & Jews, and Otherworlds: Two new Medieval Monographs

    Yesterday, Thursday 17th March 2016, the Department of History and the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (GCMS) held a book launch for two new medieval monographs from Oxford University Press (OUP).  Thanks to their authors, Dr Rebecca Rist and Dr… Continue reading

  • Why My Research Matters – A GCMS Workshop

    Friday 22nd April 2016, University of Reading The Graduate Centre of Medieval Studies (GCMS) is an interdisciplinary centre that is predominantly based in the History department.  ‘Why My Research Matters’, or to give it its full title ‘Why My Research… Continue reading

    Why My Research Matters – A GCMS Workshop
  • Rome 1600

    Professor Clare Robertson’s new book, Rome 1600. The City and the visual Arts under Clement VIII (Yale University Press 2015) produces a snapshot of the city at one of the most significant moments in its post-classical history. Rome was at… Continue reading

    Rome 1600
  • Nancy Astor: Art in Parliament

    We are very pleased to announce that Dr Jacqui Turner’s work for Parliament on the installation of the Nancy Astor bust, in association with Vote100, is completed. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, was elected to Parliament on 15 November 1919. She took her… Continue reading

    Nancy Astor: Art in Parliament