Historians grapple with hail and plutonium

The Merton historians have just returned from this year’s reading party in Cornwall. The weather – hail on Roughtor, sunshine at Tintagel – was as varied as the diet of books discussed. The topics ranged from trees in Anglo-Saxon religion to plutonium factories in Cold War Russia and America and included wide-ranging studies of violence, death, emotions, and consumerism.

A seminar in progress