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Being Humanities: an event to launch Reading’s School of Humanities

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27 June 202427 June 2024

What good are the humanities on a burning planet? What use is a poem about flowers when the world’s biodiversity faces cataclysm caused by climate change? What is the point...Read More >

Why some people lose their accents but others don’t – linguistic expert

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12 April 202324 January 2024

Jane Setter explores how and why some people’s accents may change over time, and what that means for their identity.

Poems about places and pasts: an extract from ‘On Magnetism’

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30 November 2017

Steven Matthews is professor of English Literature, University of Reading. His latest book of poetry, On Magnetism, was launched this week. It features poems about loss and remembrance, about the relation…Read More >

English Language Day: 100 years of the English Pronouncing Dictionary

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24 April 2017

By Prof Jane Setter, Professor of Phonetics Apologies for the huge understatement, but the English language has changed rather a lot since 1917. This blog was written to mark English…Read More >