by louisemiskell | Jul 23, 2025 | Uncategorised
In May 1937, nearly 4,000 children arrived in Southampton aboard the Habana, fleeing the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Among them around 400 Basque children destined for Wales, a country with little direct connection to Spain but a growing sense of solidarity and...
by louisemiskell | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorised
Apply now! Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) Closing date: 25 July 2025 Application page and full...
by louisemiskell | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorised
On Friday 20 June 2025 I had the privilege of delivering the history lecture to the annual conference of the Baptist Union of Wales at the Central London Welsh Church, just round the corner from Oxford Circus. My title was ‘War, Loss and Peace: The Parallel Careers of...
by swanseahistory | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorised
Tomás Irish’s new book, Feeding the Mind: Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919-1933, has just been published in paperback. The book explores how Europe was rebuilt after the First World War by looking at the work of...
by louisemiskell | Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorised
New content is on its way. Look out for some contributions from some of Swansea History’s class of 2025 dissertations students who will be sharing some of the research findings from their final year projects here.
by swanseahistory | Jan 12, 2024 | Modern History, Research
In January 2024, Michael Bresalier (Department of History, Heritage, and Classics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social History) joins a six-year, £2.8million Wellcome Trust-funded project on ‘Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare’ (EPIC). Lead by Havi Carel (Bristol),...
by swanseahistory | Oct 27, 2023 | European History, Publications, Research
Tomás Irish has just published a new book called Feeding the Mind: Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919-1933. It explores how European intellectual life was rebuilt after the cataclysm of the First World War. Learned...
by swanseahistory | Oct 18, 2023 | Uncategorised
12 October 2023: Ryan Tristram-Walmsley (Swansea University): ‘”Balms to the aching souls”: Caribbean migrant house parties as emotional refuge in postwar Britain’ (GENCAS-sponsored) Chair: Sarah Crook 19 October 2023: Ana-Maria Herman...
by swanseahistory | Sep 22, 2023 | Students
A film about the undergraduate history and postgraduate heritage work placements at Swansea University, filmed in the Spring of...
by swanseahistory | Sep 13, 2023 | Modern History, Publications
Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Michael Bresalier’s new book, Modern Flu traces the history of this breakthrough and its implications for understanding and controlling influenza ever since. Examining how influenza came to be...
