Outreach and community

The Reading Scholars Programme gives Year 12 students a real taste of life as a university undergraduate.

You will participate in a range of lectures and seminars, designed to develop your knowledge and experience of History. You will experience teaching from a range of our academic staff and learn from our existing students about their experience of studying the subject.

Subject requirements: you should be studying towards an A-Level in History or equivalent, and have an interest in applying for a related subject at university.

For more information, visit the Reading Scholars page

The wider University offers a huge range of free events, programmes and activities for students to give them all the information they need about higher education and to enhance their subject knowledge and experience.

For further information, please visit our activities for schools page

Subject taster sessions

During the summer the University hosts a number of subject taster sessions, where students can discover what it would be like to study their favourite subject at University.

The digital archive, Egypt Revolution, provides access to a range of artwork produced in Egypt during the so-called ‘Arab Spring’.

Explore a variety of digital media from graffiti to satire and reflect on the relationship between politics and popular culture through our resources and learning guides.

Our Stenton lectures cover a range of fascinating themes and are open to the public.

In 2021, Dr Sadiah Qureshi explored the Natural History Museum’s depiction of endangerment and extinction and collaborated with the British Museum in a series of workshops on ‘Collecting and 19th Century Empires’. 

The 2022 Stenton lecture will be delivered by Professor Brenda Stevenson, a global leader in research on race, slavery and gender studies. Her work puts women – and particularly women of colour – at the centre of accounts of political and social change.

Read more about the Stenton lectures