History at Swansea University

📣 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 ⬇️

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

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 👇

📣 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

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.

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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!

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...

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/...

This looks like a magnificent event!

You can access the recording of Professor David Turner's paper here, too! #disabilityhistory

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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

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

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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...

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.

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.

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Caerphilly Castle to reopen following two-year restoration - Museums Association Elsewhere, Cyfarthfa Castle and Shire Hall Museum receive funding for transformative projects

News | Caerphilly Castle to reopen following two-year restoration – elsewhere, Cyfarthfa Castle and Shire Hall Museum receive funding for transformative projects

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Just over a week to go until the closing date for this...

Associate Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society Associate Fellows are recognised for their contribution to historical research, including completion of a PhD in history or a related discipline. Associate Fellows also work in history: for example, as teachers, archivists or curators. Applications to join are welcome at any time. Next closing dates: 11 August & 13 October 2025

Our Associate Fellowship category is for those at an earlier stage their research careers - for example, completion of a #History PhD - or History professionals (teachers, curators, archivists etc.) who make research possible.

Applications are welcome at any time bit.ly/44r8NTg #Skystorians

👇 Another great review of a recent publication by one of the @swanseahistory.bsky.social team 👇

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