History at Swansea University
@swanseahistory.bsky.social
History and Heritage @SwanseaUniversity. Hanes a Treftadaeth @PrifysgolAbertawe
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/history/ -- Researching & Teaching the Past for the 21st Century
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/history/ -- Researching & Teaching the Past for the 21st Century
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...
Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI170/p...
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.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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...
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
September 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📣 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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
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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 👇
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 👇
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
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September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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 👇
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
✨ 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
September 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
📣 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
✨ 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
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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.
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.
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
📍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
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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.
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.
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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
📍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
September 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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
📍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?
September 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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.
September 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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...
September 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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...
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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
September 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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
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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...
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...
August 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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...
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...
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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!
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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!
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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/...
History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century - History onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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/...
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!
Registration is open for the @WomensHistScot Annual Conference 2025! Exploring new directions in women’s & gender history in Scotland.
Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.
Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory
Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.
Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory
August 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This looks like a magnificent event!
You can access the recording of Professor David Turner's paper here, too! #disabilityhistory
Wednesday 25 June 5:30pm: last chance to catch a British History in the Long 18th Century (IHR) Seminar live until the autumn. Hybrid session, in London & online. David Turner (Swansea University), speaking on 'Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’.
Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century
www.history.ac.uk
August 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You can access the recording of Professor David Turner's paper here, too! #disabilityhistory
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.
August 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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
August 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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!
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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
August 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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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... and here's the complete list: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Three new seminars for 2025/26: African History, Migration & Mobility, and Planetary Histories. Programmes coming soon. Watch this space...
July 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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...
July 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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).
July 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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).
Congratulations @simonajohn.bsky.social, @tomasirish.bsky.social, Hannah Lyons, and the contributors! We're looking forward to seeing the volume when it's in print.
Submitted to the publisher this morning: 'Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments', edited by myself, @tomasirish.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. Could also have been titled 'Colston Five Years On' @swanseahistory.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Congratulations @simonajohn.bsky.social, @tomasirish.bsky.social, Hannah Lyons, and the contributors! We're looking forward to seeing the volume when it's in print.
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I love looking at medieval art for traces of the common people.
Check these out, farmers harvesting, clearly also a job women did.
I'll keep an eye out for them in films/tv shows set in that period to see if they're included.
Check these out, farmers harvesting, clearly also a job women did.
I'll keep an eye out for them in films/tv shows set in that period to see if they're included.
July 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I love looking at medieval art for traces of the common people.
Check these out, farmers harvesting, clearly also a job women did.
I'll keep an eye out for them in films/tv shows set in that period to see if they're included.
Check these out, farmers harvesting, clearly also a job women did.
I'll keep an eye out for them in films/tv shows set in that period to see if they're included.
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Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees
July 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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