University of Reading
About University of Reading
The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christ Church, Oxford, and became University College, Reading in 1902. The institution became a university with the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by royal charter from King George V, and was the only university to receive such a charter between the two world wars. The university is usually categorised as a red brick university, reflecting its original foundation in the 19th century.
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There's a guy called Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading and he had a chip in his hand, which he used to go through security doors and unlock his phone and stuff like that. The BBC described it quite sniffily as a sophisticated version of ID chips used to tag pets.
from 184: No Such Thing As Dinosaur Diaries, 2017-09-29 at 00:05:45 · read transcript
Other times University of Reading came up
I think that's the other strand of the Christmas jumper theory. That's right. No, that's right. This comes actually from a press release from the University of Reading that I read, and they've gone into all this. They also said that people then drank raisin wine, wine flavoured with pitch, honeyed wine, which does sound nice, and also a special wine for loosening the bowels. Who is accepting that at dinner?
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