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…
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Reflections on Studying the Past – Meddyliau ar Astudio’r Gorffennol
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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…
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…
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…
A film about the undergraduate history and postgraduate heritage work placements at Swansea University, filmed in the Spring of 2023.
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…
English conquest led to the creation of new chapels and parish churches across Wales, as well as some unique buildings like fortified churches and new…
Simon John – In the first semester of 2022/3, I was on research leave from Swansea, which enabled me to take up a visiting fellowship…
Katherine Watson – Wales has a long history of fishing. In South Wales this is clearer than anywhere else. Tenby was among the earliest and…
Monday 10 October 10am-12 This online roundtable brings together scholars to focus on the role, and representation, of nostalgia in deindustrialisation studies. In their paradigm…