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Martin Luther King and the FBI
Written by: Dafydd Townley On or about the 6th November 1964, this letter was posted to Martin Luther King. The civil rights leader had just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for work in campaigning for racial equality in the… Continue reading
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The Stenton Lecture and Symposium 2015
Thursday 19th November marks the date of this year’s Stenton Lecture which is preceded by the Stenton Symposium. What is the Stenton Lecture? The Stenton lecture is an annual lecture by an eminent historian, hosted by the Department and held… Continue reading
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Spaces and Places of Childhood and Youth
We conclude our Annual Research Theme for 2014-2015 with a one-day conference on Spaces and Places of Childhood and Youth The Cedars, Whiteknights, University of Reading Thursday 24th September, 2015 Special thanks to Dr Jeremy Burchardt for organising a… Continue reading
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The Gulag Unbound: Remembering Soviet forced labour
29 June 2012, Cambridge University The Gulag Unbound: conference document Organizers: Alexander Etkind, Cambridge University and Dan Healey, Reading University The history of the Gulag is conventionally understood as a story of enormous injustice and heroic endurance. This story is ‘bound’… Continue reading
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Liberal Wars conference
Liberal wars: strategy, history, ideology 6-7 July, 2012, University of Reading Liberalism is not pacifism. The major ‘liberal’- states that attach importance, at least internally, to individual autonomy – have frequently been willing to use military force; they have also,… Continue reading
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