Recent graduate Avneet Basra’s work on British attitudes and practices towards mental health in nineteenth century India has won the University prize for best non-western history dissertation and Amie Bailey won the Berkshire Local History Association prize for the best Berkshire dissertation for her work on sexuality and madness.
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August Stammtisch
The research cluster in gender history normally convenes every last Wednesday of the month at 5 pm. In August we will move the stammtisch to Tuesday, 28 August 2018, Park House.
Seminar ‘Researching Women and Colonial Counter-Insurgency Warfare in Kenya’ with Beth Rebisz, 28 August, 2 pm, Blandford Lodge, G01
Beth Rebisz (History, UoR) will present an Off the plane seminar (from students and staff who recently returned from research overseas) on ‘Researching Women and Colonial Counter-Insurgency Warfare in Kenya’. Please note in your calendars, 28 August at 2pm, Blandford Lodge, room G01. All are welcome.
Call for Papers: Research in Progress Postgraduate Conference: Histories of Gender, 24 October 2018
Our inaugural postgraduate conference takes place on 24 October 2018 at the University of Reading. Download details, including how to submit papers (deadline 3 August 2018).