World War I Public Lecture Professor Dominic Lieven, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy, is a distinguished Historian of Russia with award-winning books. In...Read More >
Thursday 1 November, at 19:00, the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies will be holding its 6th annual public lecture to mark Armistice Day and the Centenary of the First...Read More >
For more information contact Dr Marjorie Gehrhardt.
As part of LGBT History Month, join us to hear University of Reading students Amy Hitchings and George Stokes discuss the findings of their summer 2018 UROP research. Learn about...Read More >
The bombing of cities during the Second World War is still fiercely contested. To some, the Blitz against British cities and Allied raids over Germany were necessary battles, weakening the...Read More >
Public lecture and exhibition from the Astor papers at the National Archives, delivered by Dr Jacqui Turner (History).
Dr Liliana Riga (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Jack E. Spence, OBE (King’s College, London) The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 marks a key moment in the attempt to create...Read More >
Professor Ronald Hutton The Department of History’s annual Stenton lecture is an opportunity for a wide audience of interested local people, school students, and university staff and pupils to hear...Read More >
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 >