Dr Steve Thompson

BA, PhD(Cymru)

Dr Steve Thompson

Senior Lecturer

Head of Department (History & Welsh History)

History and Welsh History

Contact Details

Dr Steven Thompson BA, Ph.D (Wales) is a historian of the modern period with specific interest in the history of Wales and Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research interests include the history of medicine, the provision of welfare, disability history, and labour history.

 

  • Tuesday 2pm-3pm
  • Thursday 3pm-4pm

Steven Thompson is interested in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Wales and Britain and has specific research interests in the history of health and medicine, the provision of social welfare, women and gender, disability, and the labour movement.

He was a Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded research project Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields 1780-1948 (www.dis-ind-soc.org.uk) and, as convenor of the south Wales strand of the project, has organised a public lecture, a disability history roadshow and a professionals' workshop, and is co-authoring a number of scholarly articles.

He has been editor of Llafur, Welsh People's History Society Journal since 2008. More information about the Society and the journal can be found at www.llafur.org.

Twitter: @SThompsonAber

"In This Country There are Many Thousands To Whom the Act ... is a Sealed Book": Locality, Centre and the Welsh Language In the New Poor Law, 1834–1850s. / Carter, Paul; King, Steven; Thompson, Steven.
In: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru | Welsh History Review, Vol. 32, No. 3, 01.06.2025, p. 501-536.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

‘Can you look in the mirror and say, I see a man?’: Masculinity and the labour movement in south Wales, c.1870-1939. / Thompson, Steve.
Gender in Modern Welsh History: Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000. ed. / Beth Jenkins; Paul O'Leary; Stephanie Ward. Cardiff: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press, 2024. p. 91-119 (Gender Studies in Wales).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

The living dead of the mining industry: Deindustrialisation, sheltered workplaces and the re-employment of disabled miners in post-war Wales. / Thompson, Steven.
In: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru | Welsh History Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, 6, 01.06.2023, p. 468-493.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Swansea Copper: A Global History. / Thompson, S.
In: Welsh History Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, 30.06.2022, p. 190-192.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article Review

Disability in Industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948. / Bohata, Kirsti; Jones, Alexandra; Mantin, Mike et al.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 288 p. (Disability History).

Research output: Book/Report › Book

More publications on the Research Portal