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Rowing to romance

From training on the Thames to competing at the Olympics – Sam and Natasha Townsend share their story of going from teammates to soulmates.  Natasha and Sam’s love story began at the University of Reading, where they met through a shared...

A Halls Romance

Paul and Anne Armitage sat down with CONNECTED to share their University of Reading love story which began 40 years ago in the corridors of Wells Hall. Meteorology graduate Paul, and geography graduate Anne Armitage went travelling on safari in...

Grand Theft Hamlet

Grand Theft Auto and Shakespeare are not two things you would normally put together. But Reading alumnus, Mark Oosterveen, did exactly that when he staged a production of Hamlet within the Grand Theft Auto video game world. Mark, who graduated in...

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Grand Theft Hamlet

Grand Theft Auto and Shakespeare are not two things you would normally put together. But Reading alumnus, Mark Oosterveen, did exactly that when he staged a production of Hamlet within the Grand Theft Auto video game...

Rowing to romance

From training on the Thames to competing at the Olympics – Sam and Natasha Townsend share their story of going from teammates to soulmates.  Natasha and Sam’s love story began at the University of Reading, where...

Journalists Are Never The Story

“Well, except just this once,” said Reading alumnus Phil Creighton, as he wrote in his final column in June 2024, after nine years in the editor’s chair of Wokingham Today and Reading Today. Phil, who...

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A Halls Romance

Paul and Anne Armitage sat down with CONNECTED to share their University of Reading love story which began 40 years ago in the corridors of Wells Hall. Meteorology graduate Paul, and geography graduate Anne Armitage...

Six Decades Later

As the University of Reading approaches its centenary, our beautiful campuses look a little more populated now than they used to. Alumnus Tim Treacher speaks to CONNECTED to share just how much has changed in the six...

A Wedding Day Surprise

Romy and Rhys met at the University of Reading, fell in love and had their faces displayed on a giant gazebo at an Open Day… eight years later, the Alumni Team got that gazebo to their wedding day to surprise them...

Forty Year Friendships

“The friends I made at the University of Reading have been the most important, and the most long-standing, friendships of my life,” shared alumnus Simon Gordon. Simon, who graduated from computer science in...

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