Dr Steve Thompson

BA, PhD(Cymru)

Dr Steve Thompson

Senior Lecturer

Head of Department (History & Welsh History)

Department of History & Welsh History

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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.

 

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Steven Thompson teaches modules in modern British and American history, and contributes to a number of core modules and team-taught modules. He teaches on modules from the first year to MA level.

PhD supervision:

Aspects of the history of medicine, the South Wales Coalfield, and the modern history of Wales more generally.

Research

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

Office Hours (Student Contact Times)

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

Publications

Carter, P, King, S & Thompson, S 2025, '"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', Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru | Welsh History Review, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 501-536. 10.16922/whr.32.3.3
Thompson, S 2024, ‘Can you look in the mirror and say, I see a man?’: Masculinity and the labour movement in south Wales, c.1870-1939. in B Jenkins, P O'Leary & S Ward (eds), Gender in Modern Welsh History: Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000. Gender Studies in Wales, Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press, Cardiff, pp. 91-119.
Thompson, S 2023, 'The living dead of the mining industry: Deindustrialisation, sheltered workplaces and the re-employment of disabled miners in post-war Wales', Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru | Welsh History Review, vol. 31, no. 3, 6, pp. 468-493. 10.16922/whr.31.3.6
Thompson, S 2022, 'Swansea Copper: A Global History', Welsh History Review, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 190-192. 10.16922/whr.31.1.8
Bohata, K, Jones, A, Mantin, M & Thompson, S 2020, Disability in Industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948. Disability History, Manchester University Press, Manchester. <https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526124326/9781526124326.xml>
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