history
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Mat Haine – Success for whom? The class gaps in student outcomes
As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the University of Reading. Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University… Continue reading
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Jacqui Turner – what does it mean to be working class?
As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the University of Reading. Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University… Continue reading
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Brooke Harding on the workings of becoming a first-generation student
As part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, a team led by David Stack in History has been researching the experiences of students and staff from working-class backgrounds at the University of Reading. Beginning with the widening participation roots of the University… Continue reading
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Britain’s Atomic Bombs: Operation Grapple
In light of recent news coverage, our MA student, Hannah Grimshaw, reflects on her grandfather’s experiences of atomic testing on Christmas Island. Operation Grapple was a series of nine British hydrogen and atomic bomb tests that took place on Christmas… Continue reading
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The Liddesdale
In a second blog on our river Thames, following the blog from the country archivist, Jacqui Turner and Emily Astor glide on the river with the National Trust at Cliveden aboard the Liddesdale, Nancy Astor’s electric canoe. Emily and Jacqui… Continue reading
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