I was born in Germany, although I have spent most of my life living elsewhere. I joined the History Department in 2013 as Lecturer in Modern History. My area of expertise is nineteenth and twentieth century African History, in particular… Continue reading

Having grown up a few miles further down the Thames valley, coming to Reading in 2004 was a return to home territory. My academic path as a student took me through different subjects as well as three different universities, but… Continue reading

I was born in Greater London but grew up in Yorkshire. I studied History and German at Magdalen College, Oxford, then went on to St. Antony’s, Oxford for a DPhil. I took Tim Mason’s course on the Third Reich and… Continue reading

I grew up in the Thames Valley, but come from a mainly Scottish background, and did my undergraduate degree in Medieval History at St Andrews. Then I went to the Courtauld Institute, where I did an MA in Medieval Art… Continue reading

I grew up in a village on the outskirts of Oxford. I studied History at Oxford and came to Reading as the Marc Fitch Student in Agricultural History. My PhD was on the history of allotments. I was appointed to… Continue reading