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  • Proving that Medieval Meteorology existed

    Dr Anne Lawrence has been awarded an AHRC Fellowship for 2013-14, to support her research into the reality and practice of meteorology in medieval England.  This work will both provide a history of medieval meteorology and challenge the still-popular idea… Continue reading

  • ‘My time in the History Department’

    Our recent graduate Emma Jackson reflects upon her time as a History student and how this informed her decision to stand as RUSU Education Officer   No matter how we dress it up, whether as a stepping stone for a… Continue reading

  • The Spirit of ’45 and working-class history

    By Jason Parry A confused and bumbling Winston Churchill being booed during an outdoor election meeting in 1945 is one of the defining scenes from Spirit of ’45, a new Ken Loach documentary which celebrates Labour’s landslide election victory. In… Continue reading

  • EMRC Colloquium

    Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in early Modern Europe Friday 26 April 2013 10.30-10.45 Coffee & Registration 10.45-12.45 Session 1 (Chair: Dr Esther Mijers, University of Reading) Dr Arjan van Dixhoorn (University of Ghent), ‘Towards a Cultural… Continue reading

  • Summer Term Seminars

    Wednesday 1 May, 5.00pm, HumSSG74 Dr Holger Nehring, Department of History, University of Sheffield ‘The Last Battle of the Cold War: Peace Movements and German politics’. Wednesday 8 May, 5.00pm, HumSSG74 Prof. Suzanne Schwartz, Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts,… Continue reading

  • Europe in Context: “European integration in the 1970s”, Wednesday, 20 March 2013

    “European integration in the 1970s” 11:00-12:30 – Room G10 (HumSS) BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE 1970s Matt Broad (Reading), The Nordic Connection: British foreign policy and the NORDEK treaty, 1968-1973. Kai Hebel (Oxford), ‘London’s “lemon strategy”: Britain, détente, and the… Continue reading

  • Pope Benedict XVI to resign

    Dr Rebecca Rist, Senior Lecturer in History, Department of History: Pope Benedict XVI has stepped down as pope at the age of 85. It is very rare for a pope to resign. The medieval Pope Celestine V resigned in 1294… Continue reading

  • Public Seminar: 40 years of The Gulag Archipelago

    Tuesday 26 February 2013, 7.30pm, Henley Business School, Whiteknights campus Professor Dan Healey, Department of History In 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s groundbreaking work The Gulag Archipelago was published for the first time in Paris. Banned in Soviet Russia, the book traces… Continue reading

  • European Integration History Seminar

    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

  • Department of History seminars, Spring and Summer Term

    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