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Use Your Voice! Celebrating working class lives this Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we invited PhD students Amy Longmuir and Abbie Tibbott, researchers for the Celebrating Class: Working-Class Identities at Reading centenary project, to share their thoughts on class and gender. Amy Longmuir conducted archival research at Special Collections,… Continue reading
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Fallen Women: Remembering the Women History Tried to Hide
In this post, Part 2 History student Alyssa Parker Harwin shares some of her research into the history of sex work. March is Women’s History Month in the United Kingdom, a month in which we honour the women in the past who helped pave the way… Continue reading
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Homemade Georgian Winter Cheese
As part of their project working with the Royal Berkshire Archive (RBA) for the module HS2GPP: Going Public, Part 2 undergraduate students examined an 18th century cookbook. Today, Anna Puckey and Henry Merison share one of the seasonal recipes they found.… Continue reading
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A Georgian Cookbook Mystery
As part of their project working with the Royal Berkshire Archive (RBA) for the module HS2GPP: Going Public, Part 2 undergraduate students Becky Storey and Eleanor Davis examined an 18th century cookbook. Read about the mysteries they uncovered below… Early… Continue reading
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Sharla Attala – Let’s talk about 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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