Department of History & Welsh History
Welcome
History has been taught as a subject at British universities for over a century. The University at Aberystwyth was founded in 1872 and History has been there since its foundation.
The Department is recognized as one of the foremost history departments in Britain.
Its recent excellent results in the National Student Survey are testimony to a commitment to teaching as well as to excellence in research.
It has a staff of over twenty lecturers, whose teaching and research expertise range widely. To find out more about the work of the department, both in terms of its teaching and its research, please follow the links on these pages.
News
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: The Great Famine.
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: The Great Famine: Dearth and society in medieval England c.1300/co-editor, Economic History Review
Professor Phillipp Schofield has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on famine in the middle ages.
Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages
This conference seeks to explore the functions of seals in Medieval Britain and Western Europe in the broadest possible context. Themes will include the use of seals in law and administration, the act of sealing, and how, why and by whom seals were used.
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Congratulations...
To Chris Adams who has just been appointed Parliamentary Assistant to Mark Williams, the Liberal Democrat MP for Ceredigion.
Wellcome Trust Programme Award - Disability & Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields
Dr Steven Thompson is the Aberystwyth partner in a Swansea-led project which uses the coal industry to explore how understandings and experiences of disability were affected by industrialization between 1780 and the end of the Second World War.
Contact Details
Department of History & Welsh HistoryHugh Owen Building
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 3DY
Tel: 01970 622662 Fax: 01970 622676 Email: history-enquiries@aber.ac.uk