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Votes for Women: What are we celebrating?

Posted on February 8, 2018 by

by Melanie Khuddro This week marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act receiving Royal Assent; the week when women were first legally recognised to have voting rights in the UK. Countless flags, banners and badges adorned in … Continue reading →

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Daughters of the Dust and the History of Gullah communities

Posted on October 18, 2017 by

by Prof. Emily West On Tuesday 17th October the University kindly invited me to introduce Reading Film Theatre’s showing of the 1991 film, Daughters of the Dust, written and directed by Julie Dash.  Her father grew up in the area … Continue reading →

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Socialism and the Vampire: Comrades, Capitalists and Bloodsuckers

Posted on May 26, 2017 by

by Dr Dan Renshaw In May 1897 Constable and Co published a limited print run of a new novel by a London-based Irish theatre manager and occasional author named Bram Stoker.  Stoker had enjoyed moderate critical recognition with a series … Continue reading →

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Co-living: Utopia 2.0?

Posted on March 15, 2017 by

by Dr Andy Willimott [1] Eight months on from its opening, in May 2016, the London-based co-living enterprise known as The Collective Old Oak is still going strong. The residential concept, situated between North Acton and Wilesden Junction, now boasts … Continue reading →

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The Long Read. Impressions of a Modern Pilgrim: Walking the Camino to Santiago de Compostela

Posted on January 13, 2017 by

by Dr Rebecca Rist Whan that Averylle with his shoures soote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote, … Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrymages When in April the sweet showers fall, And pierce the drought of … Continue reading →

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