by swanseahistory | Mar 17, 2021 | Events, Modern History
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by swanseahistory | Mar 12, 2021 | Events, Students
On 10 March the College of Arts and Humanities welcomed three external speakers with extensive public policy and political advice careers to give employability guidance to students interested in political careers. Organised and chaired by Dr Sarah Crook, Lecturer in...
by swanseahistory | Mar 8, 2021 | Medieval History, Welsh History
In this short video, you can watch Dr Emma Cavell discuss the impact of the Black Death on Wales. Dr Cavell is a historian of the central Middle Ages with a particular interest in questions of gender. Her current research concentrates on Jewish men and women and the...
by swanseahistory | Mar 8, 2021 | Modern History, Research
Dr Gemma Almond writes: The Social Worlds of Steel project, which has been running since May 2019, has unearthed important new evidence of the impact of the steel industry on towns and cities in twentieth-century Britain. In the current phase of the project we are...
by swanseahistory | Mar 5, 2021 | British History, Medieval History, Publications, Welsh History
Matthew Stevens, The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019). ISBN: 9781786834843. £24.99. Dr Matthew Stevens’ book, The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536 has been attracting some glowing reviews recently. The book...
by swanseahistory | Mar 3, 2021 | Medieval History
Dr Matthew Stevens has launched a new podcast. It investigates episodes in history that highlight the worst and best of the human condition. He says: History can tell us about past ideas and events, and in doing so it tells us something about the universal. When we...
by swanseahistory | Mar 1, 2021 | British History, Modern History, Research
Professor Martin Johnes has recently been researching the intersections between race and boxing in post-1945 Britain. With Matthew Taylor (De Montfort University), he explored the abolition of the sport’s colour bar in 1948 and the impact that had on the sport...
