By Professor Roger Matthews and Dr Wendy Matthews The transition of humankind from mobile hunters to settled farmers after the Ice Age is a period in history still shrouded in…Read More >
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Whetting the appetite for edible archives
A multi-media installation created by Dr Teresa Murjas, Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television has inspired the work of The National Archives, Kew and its national…Read More >
1917-2017: the social legacy of a socialist revolution
By Andy Willimott, Lecturer in Modern Russian and Soviet History, University of Reading With the centenary of the 1917 October Revolution approaching, historians who focus on this period, like me,…Read More >
How diverse was Roman Britain?
By Dr Matthew Nicholls, Department of Classics, University of Reading A heated conversation arose on social media on Wednesday surrounding the question of the racial diversity of Roman Britain, or…Read More >
‘Shakespeare and us’ – University professor to give prestigious Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture at the Globe theatre
By Professor Grace Ioppolo, English Literature professor at the University of Reading, and 2017 Sam Wanamaker Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe Although the Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture was scheduled several months…Read More >
Prizes awarded for outstanding research outputs
Dinosaurs, chickens and the Russian revolution were among the topics that won University of Reading academics prizes for their research last week. The five academics, one from each research theme,…Read More >
Votes for women – and £5m to celebrate, 100 years on
by Dr Jacqui Turner, Department of History, University of Reading This week was International Women’s Day and women were everywhere. We were in the media, online, on TV, and crowded…Read More >
Tsar wars: when International Women’s Day led to real revolution
By Dr Andy Willimott, Lecturer in Modern Russian History, University of Reading International Women’s Day 2017 sees a plethora of excellent and worthwhile events, highlighting many issues still facing women…Read More >
Why has Obama failed to knock ‘47’ bells out of Romney?
Dr Jonathan Bell from the Department of History wonders why the race to the White House is still too close to call… ‘There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for…Read More >
The good in ‘bad science’
Dr David Stack is a Reader in History who believes strongly in the need to promote interdisciplinary understanding and public engagement with history. His research interests include the inter-relationship of…Read More >