IRHS member Verity Burke (PhD Student, English Literature) gave a paper entitled “Outside the Laboratory Door: Narrative Medicine in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science” on Wednesday 10th December 2014 at…Read More >
Darwin anniversary
David Stack, Head of History at Reading, writes: On 24 November 1859 a book containing ‘the best idea anybody ever had’ was published. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species…Read More >
The limits of science
Dr Berry Billingsley from the department of education will be leading the next work-in-progress session of the IRHS on perceived boundaries defining the extent or limits of science. The session will…Read More >
Talk at the Linnean Society
This Wednesday lunchtime (1st October) I will be giving a talk at the Linnean Society on how poets have responded to changing conceptions of the natural world, from when the…Read More >
A Pre-Raphaelite Museum
As part of this year’s Oxford Open Doors programme, John Holmes will be giving a talk explaining how the Pre-Raphaelites became involved in the design of the Oxford University Museum…Read More >
New Commission on Science and Literature
Earlier this month I went to the conference of the new Commission on Science and Literature at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. The Commission – or CoSciLit –…Read More >
Diachronic change in Bantu noun classes
We are holding our last work-in-progress session of term next week at 1 o’clock on Wednesday 2nd July in HumSS 175. Annemarie Verkerk from the School of Biological Sciences will be…Read More >
Science in Modernist Poetry
The IRHS has been invited to give a panel at the British Association of Modernist Studies conference this week at Senate House in London. We will be giving three talks on…Read More >
Medieval Meteorology symposium
The Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies at Reading is holding its Summer Symposium this year on Medieval Meteorology, Science and Divination. The Symposium is on Wed 2nd July, 10.30-4.00, in Palmer…Read More >
Evolution and Victorian poetry
John Holmes’s essay ‘The challenge of evolution in Victorian poetry’ has just been published in Evolution and Victorian Culture, edited by Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon. This is the first book…Read More >