READING HISTORY

early modern history

  • A Recipe for Tudor Jumbals à la GBBO

    by Dr Ruth Salter As you may be aware that this year the University’s team responsible for MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses] and the history department, headed by Prof Kate Williams, have been working closely on an exciting venture.  Along… Continue reading

    A Recipe for Tudor Jumbals à la GBBO

  • Call For Papers: ‘Complaints and Grievances, 1500-1750’, 10th-11th July 2017

    We are delighted to issue a call for papers for Reading University’s biennial Early Modern Studies Conference, ‘Complaints and Grievances, 1500-1750’ (10th-11th July 2017). There will be three strands running through the conference: medical grievances literary complaints political/religious grievances   The keynote… Continue reading

    Call For Papers: ‘Complaints and Grievances, 1500-1750’, 10th-11th July 2017

  • Why My Research Matters – A GCMS Workshop

    Friday 22nd April 2016, University of Reading The Graduate Centre of Medieval Studies (GCMS) is an interdisciplinary centre that is predominantly based in the History department.  ‘Why My Research Matters’, or to give it its full title ‘Why My Research… Continue reading

    Why My Research Matters – A GCMS Workshop

  • Rome 1600

    Professor Clare Robertson’s new book, Rome 1600. The City and the visual Arts under Clement VIII (Yale University Press 2015) produces a snapshot of the city at one of the most significant moments in its post-classical history. Rome was at… Continue reading

    Rome 1600

  • Sensing Sickness in Early Modern England, 1580-1720: About the Research Project

    We are very pleased to announce that Dr Hannah Newton has been awarded Wellcome Trust funding for her new research project ‘Sensing Sickness in Early Modern England, 1580-1720’.  Below Hannah tells us more about this exciting project and what it… Continue reading

    Sensing Sickness in Early Modern England, 1580-1720: About the Research Project