Steve Thompson

Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story!

Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.

🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum

🔎 New research identifies 19th-century welfare cuts as a major cause of rise in early-childhood mortality.

The findings - from researchers incl. @camhistory.bsky.social's Prof Simon Szreter - reveal a politically-induced cause of the irregular drop in survival rates during this period.

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Rwy'n hapus i gyhoeddi bydd Ynysoedd Gobaith, fy llyfr am iwtopia a syniadau a mentrau iwtopaidd yng Nghymru'r 20G yn cael ei gyhoeddi mewn ychydig fisoedd yn Nhachwedd! www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/ynysoed...

Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819 Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.

Book's out in precisely one month!

Get your pre-orders (now Hardback and E-book) in *NOW* #C18th 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Herbert Smith, President of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain 1922-29, was born in a workhouse in Kippax, West Yorkshire #OnThisDay 1862.

A miner from the age of 10, Smith was the miners’ chief spokesman during the 1926 General Strike.

@gwennoffrancon.bsky.social

The deadline for the Pennar Scholarship in the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University comes at the end of the month. The Department welcomes PhD proposals for research on the social and economic history of Wales in the period 1500 to 2000.
www.aber.ac.uk/en/study-wit...

Mae’r dyddiad cau ar gyfer Ysgoloriaeth Pennar yn Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru, Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn agosáu. Mae’r Adran yn croesawu cynigion am brosiectau PhD ar hanes cymdeithasol ac economaidd Cymru, 1500-2000.
www.aber.ac.uk/cy/study-wit...

Including our CDP PhD studentship, with @librarywales.bsky.social, @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social and the National Botanic Garden of Wales, on the history of medical herbalism in Wales.

Images of tongues from a Ming dynasty Chinese medical text.

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION:
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz

I'm sorry too that you weren't able to be there, it would have been great to have you join us but thanks so much for your paper - it really was fascinating! Hope everything turned out ok.

A fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award on the history of medical herbalism in Wales, at the Department of History and Welsh History, with the National Library of Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru and the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
For further details: www.aber.ac.uk/en/grad-scho...

PhD cydweithredol ar hanes meddygaeth lysieuol yng Nghymru, wedi ei ariannu’n llawn yn Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, ar y cyd â Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Amgueddfa Cymru a Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru
Am fanylion pellach: www.aber.ac.uk/cy/grad-scho...

A strong & emotional start to @costprogramme.bsky.social hybrid workshop "First-Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare" hosted by University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece. Thanks to organisers Dimitra Vassiliadou, Janka Kovács & Steve Thompson @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social @kindkovacs.bsky.social

On my way to this workshop on First Person Accounts of medicine and healthcare, and taking Eos Wyn, another Swansea Valley boy, with me. I'll be exploring his poetry and journalism from the nineteenth century and his particular contribution to the ‘culture of invalidism’ in the Victorian period.

Ar gael cyn hir.

Dyma gyfrol sy'n taflu goleuni newydd ar hunaniaeth Gymreig yn ystod y cyfnod modern cynnar.

Am fwy o wybodaeth am 'Cof Diwylliannol yng Nghymru’r Cyfnod Modern Cynnar' gan Dewi Alter, ewch at ein gwefan.

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www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/cof-diw...