The world’s elderly population is growing. By 2050 it’s expected that one third of the population of Europe will be over 65 – and this gives older people more political clout….Read More >
Tag: Politics
How Britain’s colonial legacy still affects LGBT politics around the world
Many laws across the world that make homosexuality a crime were imposed during rule by the British Empire. Joseph O’Mahoney attempts to unpick why these stigmatising laws persist in a new…Read More >
‘Engage openly’ during elections, academics urged
University of Reading academics should remain engaged in public debates, even while elections are imminent in the UK, says Professor Steve Mithen, Deputy Vice-Chancellor. This week there are a number of…Read More >
Italian General Election 2018: The Phantom Menace
By Dr Federico Faloppa, Lecturer in Italian Studies Ahead of the General Election that will take place on 4 March this year, President Sergio Mattarella urged all parties to…Read More >
Suffrage and Citizenship Lecture
Suffrage is arguably the most important single event in women’s history; despite popular conception it was not a fight for freedom, it was the campaign for equal citizenship waged by…Read More >
Deep Space Gateway, Trump, and the space race sixty years on
By Dr Mark Shanahan, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations This week, in the run-up to World Space Week, NASA announced a long-term co-operation project with Roscosmos, the Russian space…Read More >
The Fate of Europe and the West Book Launch
The Fate of the West The Decline and Revival of the World’s Most Successful Political Idea Bill Emmott, former editor of the Economist Free entry. No reservation necessary. The idea…Read More >
Trumps’s First 100 Days
Reading Interdisciplinary Research Network for the Study of Political History & Politics in America This is a one day conference to mark the launch of the new reading Interdisciplinary research…Read More >