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Enemies of the state: AHRC funded project

The Easter Rising and Irish Detainees in Reading Prison                         This AHRC-funded  project seeks to engage new, non-academic audiences with archives on the internment of Irish patriots in Reading … Continue reading

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Professor Alison Donnell is awarded prestigious AHRC Fellowship

The University is delighted to announce that Professor Alison Donnell, Department of English Literature, has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). As one of seven awarded Fellows this year, Professor Donnell will undertake … Continue reading

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The Pre-Raphaelites and science

John Holmes writes: Since the start of October, I’ve been working on an AHRC Research Fellowship on the Pre-Raphaelites and science. Over the project as a whole I am going to be looking at Pre-Raphaelite poetry, painting and art criticism, … Continue reading

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Nicola Abram writes on her Prison Reading Group

Since June, I’ve been voluntarily co-running a reading group at HMP/YOI Bronzefield, a women’s prison in Middlesex. Ours is one of 32 groups supported by the Prison Reading Groups project, a partnership between the University of Roehampton and the Prisoners’ … Continue reading

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Dr John Holmes: AHRC Fellowship Science in Culture

  I have been working for just over a year now on science and the Pre-Raphaelites, and I’ve just been awarded an AHRC Fellowship under the heading of ‘Science in Culture’ to spend next year working on this project. Critics … Continue reading

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Dr Natalie Pollard: ‘On Rudeness’

  Dr Natalie Pollard, the department’s new British Academy Research Fellow, will be giving a research paper on: Wednesday 23 May 2.30 pm HumSS 144, Whiteknights Campus ON RUDENESS: Contemporary Poetry and the Tongue’s Territory All welcome!   Do come … Continue reading

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Science in Culture inter-disciplinary research project

The Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded funding under its ‘Science in Culture’ initiative for an inter-disciplinary research project at Reading called ‘Cultivating Common Ground: Biology and the Humanities’, led by Professor Nick Battey (Biology), with co-investigators Dr David … Continue reading

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Beckett and Brain Science

    (Poster designed by Rhys Tranter) Beckett and Brain Science is a research project led by Dr Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick), Dr Ulrika Maude (University of Reading) and Dr Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck, University of London). It is funded … Continue reading

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Special Collections Symposium

On Saturday 24th March we welcomed thirty delegates to the University of Reading’s Special Collections for our one-day symposium on ‘Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and Distributing Literary Cultures, 1880-1940’. There was a good mix of academics, writers and archivists, … Continue reading

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