Wednesday 20 March British Foreign Policy in the 1970’s 11.00 – 12.30 HumSS G10 Matt Broad Reading The Danish Connection: Anglo -Scandinavian relations, NORDEK and the first enlargement of the EEC Kai Hebel Oxford London’s ‘lemon strategy’: Britain, détente, and… Continue reading

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 5.00pm, HumSS124 ‘The American Left and the Creation of a Welfare State, 1913-2013’ Prof. Rhodri Jefffreys-Jones, School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh Wednesday 27 February 2013, 5.00pm, HumSS124 TBA Dr Julie… Continue reading

Thursday 15 November Venue TBC 3-5.30pm Naomi Lloyd-Jones, KCL ‘Wales and the First Irish Home Rule Crisis’ Dan Renshaw, Reading ‘Assimilation and Alienation’ James Freeman. Exeter ‘Conservative Freedom works’ Convenor: Jason Parry (j.parry@reading.ac.uk) Continue reading

Wednesday 7 November HumSS 142 12.30pm: Jan de Graff, Portsmouth Creating the Socinform, 1943-1948 1.30pm: Jonathan Golub, Reading The Council of Ministers (title tbc) Convenor: Linda Risso (l.risso@reading.ac.uk) Continue reading

Wednesday 17 October 1-2pm HumSS 125 Linda Risso, Reading ‘Preaching to the converters? The NATO Information Service during the Cold War’ Wednesday 31 October 5-7pm HUMSS 124 Leslie Theibert, Yale University ‘The Western Design and the Cromwellian Vision of Empire’… Continue reading