History at Swansea University

Delighted be part of this excellent volume. Thanks to @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social for overseeing the project to completion!

We’re hosting a postgraduate conference on Welsh history with colleagues at Cardiff University. Featuring presentations, workshops, and space to share ideas about researching the Welsh past.

📲 Sign up via the QR code!

We're excited to welcome prospective students to History at Swansea University tomorrow.

Meet the staff, ask questions, and explore where a History degree could take you. It's not too late to sign up: www.swansea.ac.uk/open-days/

Cultural and Social History Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Cultural and Social History

Publication news! A Special Issue of the journal Cultural and Social History, co-edited by Dr Sarah Crook has just been published. Take a look to find out more about the methodological and archival challenges of researching student lives www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...

We loved seeing nearly 300 pupils on campus for the Gŵyl Ieithoedd / Festival of Languages — and welcoming Germany’s Ambassador to the UK, Susanne Baumann, to speak with History and Modern Languages students about diplomacy, geopolitics and why languages matter more than ever.

Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.

Huge congratulations to our brilliant colleague Dr Alex Langlands for his work on this project - the whole department is delighted by this exciting news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a very, very cool day for Archaeology press releases, between this and Port Talbot's village! @swanseahistory.bsky.social

Post Prynhawn - Cennydd Davies yn cyflwyno - BBC Sounds Newyddion y dydd yng Nghymru a thu hwnt.

Braf iawn i glywed Dr Alex Langlands @ajlanglands.bsky.social o @swanseahistory.bsky.social ar BBC Radio Cymru, yn trafod y darganfyddiadau Rhufeinig ym Margam (36 munud mewn i'r rhaglen)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History at Swansea University An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

JOIN US: apply for a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship, researching the history of the fiefs of Jersey and the island’s seigneurial institutions and culture, from the Norman ducal period to the English Civil War.

Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI170/p...

📣 The GENCAS Autumn 2025 Termcard is here! 🍂
Co-organised with Dr Sarah Crook from Swansea’s History, Heritage and Classics Department, this term’s line-up features seminars, supportive workshops, and guest speakers exploring gender from fresh academic perspectives.

✨ Full details below ⬇️

Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund: meet the grantees - Museums Association The Museums Association has awarded its first round of grants from the Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, a programme of grant-making, networking and

Meet the grantees of our Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund 🪴

We've awarded our first round of grants for health and wellbeing programmes in museums, funded by the Julia Rausing Trust, to support nine museums in developing and continuing their groundbreaking work.

More about the projects 👇

📣 Happening TOMORROW! We'll be there!
✨ History and Heritage Fair ✨
📍 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏰ 10–4
💷 Free entry & open to all
Discover local and family history with a day of expertise, information, and talks.
#Swansea #HistoryFair #Heritage #LocalHistory

It's a privilege to welcome @sarahcrook.bsky.social as our keynote speaker for this conference.

Sarah's paper is drawn from her new book 'Unhappy Mothers: Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain' which is available to read Open Access.

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

Delighted that our Head of Department, Dr Matthew Stevens, will be a commissioner on the International Commission for the History of Towns. Who else will be at the assembly later this month?

We're so looking forward to talking to everyone at the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social History and Heritage Fair at the National Waterfront Museum later this month! Come find our stall, we'd love to meet you.

Swansea History students take on the world! We all wish Dylan the very best of luck as he heads off to the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore! www.instagram.com/reel/DNF1crV...

Just two weeks to submit your abstracts for the 'Medieval Wales and the March' International Medieval Congress sessions sponsored by the Mortimer History Society. Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2025. @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 #medievalsky #skystorians #academicsky

The Welsh North American Association celebrates its 96th North American Festival of Wales this week!

Based in the US? Browse UWP's virtual booth with @uchicagopress.bsky.social and receive 30% off a selection of Wales Studies books 📚

Code: FESTWALES30

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...

We're busy putting together a fantastic termcard for this semester. Our regular 'write together' sessions will be back, and we have some wonderful external speakers lined up, alongside some great roundtables. Watch this space!

History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present-day debat...

Delighted to be part of this roundtable on US 'Universities and the State' now available open access with @hisjournalha.bsky.social
History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century - History onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This looks like a magnificent event!

You can access the recording of Professor David Turner's paper here, too! #disabilityhistory

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Are you a recent Swansea History grad? We'd love to hear about your experiences with us! Scan the QR code to share your thoughts about our community.

Are you or a loved one looking for a History place this autumn? Give our clearing line a call on 0808 175 3071 - we have three fab lecturers waiting to talk to you about how you can join our community! More info about Clearing is here: www.swansea.ac.uk

We're always pleased to see another #swanseahistory publication out in the wild!

We can't wait to welcome our incoming class of 2025. If you (or a loved one!) are looking for a home to study history, don't hesitate to contact us. Our clearing line is open bright and early tomorrow ⭐️🌿🌱🫶 tel:08081753071

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Great to see Dr Tomas Irish's book, Feeding the Mind, out in paperback. You can find out about it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

We're pleased that this collection will be out soon. Keep an eye on your favourite bookseller to grab your copy of Tomás Irish, Simon John and Hannah Lyons (eds), Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).