Victorian literature and culture, specifically fiction, theatre, women’s writing and history, actresses, historiography, and Shakespeare’s Victorian after-life. I am currently completing a book on ...

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The University of Reading has again been placed among the world’s top 200 universities, at 194, in the QS World University Rankings 2026. The ranking, which scores 1,500 institutions around the world, ...