READING HISTORY

Events

  • TEA & TESTIMONY

    History on TV As part of Explore Your Archives, Reading historians Professor Kate Williams  and Dr Jacqui Turner will chat about the effect of the media on public history. Is history now just another commodity? Can archives really be described… Continue reading

  • Annual Joint Seminar 2015: Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies & Department of Archaeology

    Prof Roberta Gilchrist   Glastonbury Abbey Excavations: Reassessing the Medieval Monastery Thursday 22nd October at 4.30  Palmer Building Room 105 Followed by drinks in Humss G27L   For further information contact  Dr Anne Lawrence a.e.mathers-lawrence@reading.ac.uk Or Amanda Harvey a.h.harvey@reading.ac.uk Continue reading

  • American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2016

    ‘Looking Back at Obama’ Call for Papers Dr Mara Oliva & PhD candidate Dafydd Townley will be hosting the forty-second annual conference of the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association at the Department of History, University of Reading (UK)… Continue reading

  • Spaces and Places of Childhood and Youth

    We conclude our Annual Research Theme for 2014-2015 with a one-day conference on Spaces and Places of Childhood and Youth The Cedars, Whiteknights, University of Reading Thursday 24th September, 2015   Special thanks to Dr Jeremy Burchardt for organising a… Continue reading

  • Spaces and places of childhood and youth

    Department of History, University of Reading, Thursday 24th September, 2015 Keynote speaker: Professor Melanie Tebbutt (Manchester Metropolitan University)     This one-day symposium marks the culmination of the Department’s 2014/15 annual research theme on childhood and youth history. Until recently,… Continue reading