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.
Dr Martyn Powell as General Editor of Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Dr Martyn Powell has been appointed as General Editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland, the first non-Irish person to hold the role.
Visual Culture of Victorian Physics
Prof Iwan Rhys Morus has just been awarded funding from the Higher Education Academy’s Philosophical and Religious Studies Subject Group for a 10 month project on ‘Exploring the Visual Culture of Victorian Physics’.
Plantagenet Britain & its Neighbours, 1180 - 1330
The department along with History at Lampeter hosted the 14th Thirteenth-century England conference at Aberystwyth and Lampeter, 5-8 September 2011.
Employability
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