Children's half-term lecture (online): Cats, Bats, and Pointed Hats: Halloween and the history of witchcraft As shadowy figures walk our streets, clutching broomsticks, cauldrons, and pointed hats, we ask why...Read More >
Amy Austin, 'The Role of the Body in Transgender Identities, 1940-'60' Sarra Bouabdeli, 'Body as a Sign in Virtual Reality' To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk Please click here to see the...Read More >
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars: 'Facial Disfigurement and Madness in Early Modern Britain: Reconsidering Arise Evans', Emily Cock, Cardiff University To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk Please click here to see the...Read More >
The Making of Dominion: An interview with Tom Holland Annual Chaplaincy Lecture, University of Reading Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. During this online event, he will...Read More >
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars: ‘A Cultural Biography of the Prostate’, Ericka Johnson, Linköping University To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk Please click here to see the other seminars in our...Read More >
Janet Walls, ‘The Zodiac Sign as Body in the Late Medieval Period’ Tom Mills, ‘Medieval Leprosy and Bioarchaeology: The Body as a Physical Sign' Claire Collins, 'Secreta mulierum? The not...Read More >
History Department Annual Stenton Lecture 2021 Dr Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham): 'Vanished: Hope and Histories of Extinction' We are so familiar with extinction that it is hard to imagine...Read More >
Close to 30 years ago Prof Roberta Gilchrist published ‘Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women’. This influential book has been a cornerstone of gender and medieval archaeological...Read More >
Wednesday 2 November, 10:00-16:00, Palmer building, Whiteknights campus Research colleagues are invited to attend an open day to learn how the University and Natural History Museum are aiming to develop...Read More >
1st December, 1pm Edith Morley 127 All UoR researchers who might be interested are warmly invited to join the talks in this programme. Do join us for the presentations and...Read More >