Tag Archives: Dr Kate Macdonald

20th-Century British Periodicals: Words and Art on the Printed Page

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Cindy

Kate Macdonald writes:   20th-Century British Periodicals Words and Art on the Printed Page Tuesday 4 July 2017, 09.00-19.00 Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, Reading £35 / £15, includes lunch and drinks reception This conference supports current scholarship … Continue reading →

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Call for papers

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Cindy

Twentieth-Century British Periodicals: Words and Art on the Printed Page, 1900-1999 4 July 2017 Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading, UK Current scholarship on twentieth-century periodicals is moving beyond the study of the ‘little’ magazine … Continue reading →

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History Today article by Kate Macdonald

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Cindy

Last week I had an article published in the monthly history magazine, History Today, on some research that I’d done on a peculiar play that I found in a 1917 magazine called The Strand. The play contains the first cyborg … Continue reading →

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Talks by Creative Writers

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Cindy

On 23 February, 7 March and 21 March, the Department of English Literature will be hosting three internationally acclaimed writers, who will read from and discuss their work. These talks are an absolute must for anyone interested in literature, particularly … Continue reading →

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Kate Macdonald gives a public talk

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Cindy

Kate Macdonald is a literary historian, and a Visiting Fellow in the English department. She works on different aspects of what and how ordinary people read, from around 1880 up to the 1960s: this encompasses middlebrow studies and publishing history … Continue reading →

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Archives and Texts seminar

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Cindy

Please join us for next Monday’s Archives & Texts seminar where Dr Kate Macdonald (Reading, Visiting Research Fellow) will be giving a paper on ‘Looking for shell-shock. Reading First World War fiction magazines’ 4-5.30pm in URS 2s26 https://www.reading.ac.uk/imagesforthemedia/reading-campus/iftm-urs.aspx ‘Looking for … Continue reading →

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