by swanseahistory | Sep 29, 2021 | CHART, Events, Heritage, Welsh History
** Unfortunately, due to very poor weather conditions forecast for tomorrow Saturday 2nd October, our Community event has been cancelled. We hope to rearrange something for next Spring.** Please join us for a creative and activity-filled morning at the Hafod-Morfa...
by swanseahistory | Aug 31, 2021 | British History, Students, Welsh History
The nineteenth century was a time of significant change across rural Wales. Plagued with socio-political unrest, a series of factors laid the foundations for a series of uprisings known as the Rebecca Riots. The upper classes controlled all government and local...
by swanseahistory | Aug 31, 2021 | British History, Modern History, Research, Welsh History
In an earlier blogpost I sketched the history of the city partnership between Swansea and Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), from its establishment in the 1950s. That blog focused in particular on the creation of a monument to the partnership, a miniature replica...
by swanseahistory | Aug 26, 2021 | British History, Research, Welsh History
Sam Blaxland The former England cricket captain, Ted Dexter, died on 26th August 2021, aged 86. This article, about a peculiar event in his career, originally featured in the 2016 edition of the Conservative History Journal. In 1964 the electorate of Cardiff South...
by swanseahistory | Jun 23, 2021 | British History, Disability History, Research, Students, Welsh History
Dissertations are the culmination of an exhilarating journey which invariably demands days lost to fascinating yet redundant research, but which is also rich with discovery and presents fresh perspectives of the world we thought we knew. This construction of history...
by swanseahistory | May 19, 2021 | British History, Modern History, Research, Students, Welsh History
The persistent legacies of colonial domination have become a flashpoint in recent years. On the one hand, movements like Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall have provided a platform through which we can analyse how structural hangovers from imperialism continue to...
