{"id":2126,"date":"2017-09-04T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2024-11-05T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:00:20","slug":"history-welcomes-dr-wendy-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/2017\/09\/04\/history-welcomes-dr-wendy-slater\/","title":{"rendered":"History welcomes Dr Wendy Slater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Dr Slater is joining the History team at the University of Gloucestershire as part-time lecturer in Russian and Soviet history for semester 1, replacing Prof. Melanie Ilic who will be on a research sabbatical. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2127\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2018\/05\/wendy.jpg\" alt=\"Wendy\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1014\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I came to Russian history through a love of the Russian language and literature and an interest in Russian current affairs. After reading Russian at Cambridge, I went on to take an MA, \u2018The Soviet Union since Stalin\u2019, at the University of Manchester before returning to Cambridge for a PhD in Russian history and politics.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve taught Russian history as a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then as lecturer in Contemporary Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. I regularly review books about Russia for the <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, and I\u2019m currently joint editor of <em>The Annual Register: World Events<\/em> series, for which I\u2019ve written the chapter on Russia for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve published a major study of the narratives surrounding the death of the last tsar and his family, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Many-Deaths-Tsar-Nicholas-Routledge\/dp\/0415427975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs<\/a><\/em> (1997), and I\u2019ve also written a number of articles with a broad focus on Russian nationalism in the late- and post-Soviet periods, the Orthodox Church in modern Russia, and Stalinism as a culture. My current project is a book about twentieth-century Russia that looks at the themes of tradition and modernity through the stories that more often feature as footnotes to mainstream history.<\/p>\n<p>In my free time, I enjoy music, travel, cooking (and eating).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Slater is joining the History team at the University of Gloucestershire as part-time lecturer in Russian and Soviet history for semester 1, replacing Prof. Melanie Ilic who will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[767,72,768,775,99,774,437,253,339,690,766],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-events","tag-melanie-ilic-2","tag-modern","tag-publications","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russian-history","tag-soviet-history","tag-soviet-union","tag-students","tag-uog"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}