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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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Tagged AHRC, Cleo Hanaway, Department of English, Department of English Literature, Easter Rising, Enemies of the State, English Department, English Literature, Lawrence McNamara, Peter Stoneley, Reading, Reading Prison, Sarah Campbell, University of 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
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
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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Tagged AHRC, Department of English, Department of English Literature, English Department, English Literature, nicola abram, Prison Reading Groups, Prisoners' Education Trust, Reading, University of Reading, University of Roehampton
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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
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
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
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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Tagged AHRC, Andrew Nash, Authors, Boots Nottingham, Department of English, English Department, English Literature, Guy Baxer, Judith Wright, MERL, Museum of English Rural Life, Nicola Wilson, Patrick Parrinder, Publishers and Readers, Reading, University of Reading
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