Images made by Reading PhD students at work were selected for an exhibition at our annual doctoral research conference last month, featuring diverse subjects from earth worms to food bank…Read More >
Heritage & Creativity
Mohamed Morsi: death of Egypt’s former president shows deep state was always going to triumph
In a new post for The Conversation, Middle Eastern historian Dr Dina Rezk writes that Morsi’s inhumane treatment and subsequent fate is unexceptional in a regime set on imposing its…Read More >
Objects and death: three burials across time
Across millennia, people have buried objects alongside the dead. Ahead of his upcoming British Museum conference ‘Objects and death’, Dr Duncan Garrow spoke to Sarah Harrop about three mysterious things…Read More >
Fragments in the archive: stories of slavery, sexual violence and testimony
Enslaved women make only fleeting appearances in the historical records from colonial and antebellum America – as property rather than people. But after the Civil War, there was an outpouring…Read More >
Human agency: are we really in control of what we do?
Are our actions truly under our control? Or are they actually the result of hidden forces that shape our decisions? Professor Emma Borg explores the philosophy of human agency ahead…Read More >
Royal death and burial: Reading Abbey in context
How did medieval people deal with a king’s body when he died far from his intended final resting place (boiling or embalming?) What part did women play in commemoration? And…Read More >
‘I, Sheep’: a woolly perspective on the world
What can we discover from putting a GoPro on a sheep? Teresa Murjas and James Rattee tell us about their unusual animal-led film and poetry project (camera work: Jess the…Read More >
Meghan Markle: reports of her ‘British accent’ sound like journalistic licence, say linguistics experts
Is Meghan Markle’s accent becoming more British? Not yet, according to Reading English Professor Jane Setter and colleagues Adrian Leeman and Sam Kirkham from the University of Lancaster, in a…Read More >
THE LONG READ: From social media’s role in the Arab Spring to New Generation Thinker – Q&A with Dr Dina Rezk
Dr Dina Rezk’s research looks at contemporary history of the Middle East, including the Arab Spring, and has fed into policy briefings to the UK and US governments. She was…Read More >
