Dr Eryn White
BA (Cymru) PhD (Cymru)

Reader
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: erw@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 3.02
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622843
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Eryn White is a historian of early modern Wales, with special interests in religion, culture and society. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century Wales in particular, but has also worked on print culture in Wales more broadly and on early Welsh Nonconformity. Other interests include the history of crime and of landownership, especially in south-west Wales, and she is editor of Ceredigion, the journal of the Ceredigion Historical Society. She is member of a number of editorial boards, including for 'Studies in Welsh History' for the University of Wales Press.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- HC11120 - Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
- HC23520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HC33520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- WH23520 - Wales under the Tudors
- WH33520 - Wales under the Tudors
- WHM1120 - Landownership and Society in Wales
Tutor
- WHM1120 - Landownership and Society in Wales
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
- HYM1160 - Dissertation
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HY11420 - Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
- HY12120 - Introduction to History
- HC11120 - Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
Coordinator
- WHM1120 - Landownership and Society in Wales
- WH23520 - Wales under the Tudors
- WH33520 - Wales under the Tudors
- HC23520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HC33520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HC11120 - Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
Lecturer
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- HY20120 - Making History
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HY11420 - Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
- HC11120 - Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
Moderator
Aspire Admin
Eryn White's main focus of teaching is early modern Welsh history, but she also contributes to a number of team-taught modules in more general early modern history. She teaches on a range of modules from first year through to MA. PhD supervision:
- Aspects of the history of religion, education and culture in early modern Wales; landownership and society in the long eighteenth century.
Research
Eryn White works on early modern Welsh history in general, with special research interests in religion, literacy, print culture, crime, morality, women and society in eighteenth-century Wales. She has studied various aspects of the Methodist Revival in Wales, including its appeal, the role of women, questions of identity, the relation to the Welsh language and to education and the attitude to consumerism. She has also published on the history of early Dissent in Wales, on aspects of the history of the Welsh language and on the influence of the Welsh Bible on society and culture.
Office Hours (Student Contact Times)
- Tuesday 15.00-16.00
- Friday 11.00-11.50