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 >
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A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
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 >
LGBT+ History Month: Broken Futures project
LGBT+ History Month is a time to look back through history and to highlight queer identities. This often brings with it a sense of belonging that many queer people believe…Read More >
Impressionism’s sibling rivalry
Sixty world-famous impressionist paintings arrived at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from Copenhagen in March last year, a whisker before the first lockdown was imposed. Instead of drawing…Read More >
The Making of Dominion: An interview with Tom Holland
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 >
Facial Disfigurement and Madness in Early Modern Britain: Reconsidering Arise Evans
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 Dig on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal – according to an archaeologist
Edith Pretty was convinced that the mounds on her land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, held important archaeological secrets. In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was…Read More >
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminar
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 >
Teaching Holocaust Testimonies
As an adolescent boy, growing up in the 1960s, I used to enjoy playing with my newly minted Action Man. I would dress him up in various army uniforms and…Read More >
Connecting through Collections Histories
As a historian of archaeology, I know that museum collections are an important route into the history of empire. British archaeologists and antiquarians brought artefacts from many countries back to…Read More >
