Monthly Archives: October 2018

‘Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue’: Hamlet’s advice to the actors who visit Elsinore is, ironically, easy to say but difficult to do. That is why I invited Jenny Caron … Continue reading →

6-8 pm Thursday 15 November 2018 MERL The Museum of English Rural Life A Talk by Dr Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes) Followed by readings from PENNIES ON MY EYES: Poems by Wilfred Owen ADMISSION FREE: Further information: p.robinson@reading.ac.uk The latest addition to the … Continue reading →

25 October, 4.30 pm in Edith Morley 124 Norman Housley (University of Leicester) ‘An English proposal for a crusade against the Irish, c. 1329-31’.   22 November Stenton Lecture  Nicholas Vincent (University of East Anglia) ‘The Letters of England’s Kings and Queens 1154-1215: A … Continue reading →

Thursday 15th November (wk 7), 5-6pm Dr Sophie Heywood (MLES, Reading), ‘Power to children’s imaginations: children’s picturebooks and ‘68’’ Edith Morley, G44 Thursday 6th Dec (wk 10), 5-6pm Dr Sara Sullam (Milan, British Academy Visiting Fellow, MLES) ‘Reading for translation: Anglo-Italian … Continue reading →

In this post Hannah Ashraf, a graduate of BA (Hons) English Literature, and Dr Nicola Abram, Lecturer in Literatures in English, discuss their 2018/19 PLanT Project ‘Students Talk: Learning Journals’.  Hannah: I first came across the journal assessment method in my … Continue reading →

Monday 22 October, 1pm, EM 124: Dr. Laura Sangha (Exeter), “The Social, Personal and Spiritual Dynamics of Ghost Stories in Early Modern England” Monday 19 November, 1 pm, EM 124: Rachel Foxley (Reading), “Gender and slavery in Milton’s republicanism” Wednesday … Continue reading →