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Part 2 Students: Career Development Opportunity with Microsoft
Microsoft will be on campus on Monday 18th January, from 1-2 pm, to advertise their graduate entry scheme, plus 120 internships for second-year students. Microsoft recruits across all disciplines – not just computer science! For further details and to book… Continue reading
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Medieval Christmas Celebrations
by Dr Ruth Salter Feasting at King Arthur’s court, British Library MS Royal 20 D. iv. f.1r. It was Christmas at Camelot, and there was the king with his leading lords and all his best soldiers, the famous company of… Continue reading
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Inventing the English Christmas
Professor Anne Lawrence-Mathers Did the Anglo-Saxons have a midwinter festival before the coming of Christianity and Christmas? Most of what is documented comes from the work of the Venerable Bede (c672-735). His references to pagan practices suggest distaste for what… Continue reading
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Suffregette: ‘Film and Fact’
This Thursday Reaing Film Theatre are showing the film Suffregette (2015), 8-10pm Palmer Building. To mark the screening we are reposting Dr Jacqui Turner‘s excellent blog post from October ‘Suffregette…but what happened next?’ – enjoy! *please note small editorial changes… Continue reading
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Seminar in Global History
10th February 2016, 5pm, Henley Business School S G15 In February Dr Miles Larmer (University of Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Localising Africa’s Cold War: The Katangese Gendarmes and Conflict in Central Africa, 1960-1978’. Miles’ research focuses on political and… Continue reading
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