READING HISTORY

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  • Tweeting from the Grave: Sickness and Survival in the 17th Century

    by Dr Hannah Newton [i] My favourite thing about being a historian is reading other people’s diaries. I began to realise this at the tender age of eight, when our teacher asked us to write a series of diary entries… Continue reading

    Tweeting from the Grave: Sickness and Survival in the 17th Century

  • OUT NOW: Dr Andy Willimott’s ‘Living the Revolution’

    Andy Willimott, lecturer in Modern Russian/Soviet History at the University of Reading, is the author of a new book published this week. Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932 (Oxford University Press) is the culmination of years of… Continue reading

    OUT NOW: Dr Andy Willimott’s ‘Living the Revolution’

  • Popes & Jews, and Otherworlds: Two new Medieval Monographs

    Yesterday, Thursday 17th March 2016, the Department of History and the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (GCMS) held a book launch for two new medieval monographs from Oxford University Press (OUP).  Thanks to their authors, Dr Rebecca Rist and Dr… Continue reading

  • 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