Dr Steve Thompson
BA, PhD(Cymru)

Senior Lecturer
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: sdt@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-1884-0409
- Office: 3.07, International Politics Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621737
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
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.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HC32320 - Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry
- HYM7520 - Gorwelion Coll yr Unol Daleithiau ac her Gogledd America Prydeinig, 1760-1871
- HY27320 - The Rise of Modern Medicine, c.1750-2000
- HC22320 - Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry
- HY37320 - The Rise of Modern Medicine, c.1750-2000
- HP37520 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
- HP37420 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
- HA24720 - Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
- HA28120 - Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- HA38120 - Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Lecturer
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HY20120 - Making History
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
Coordinator
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HC32320 - Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry
- HYM7520 - Gorwelion Coll yr Unol Daleithiau ac her Gogledd America Prydeinig, 1760-1871
- HY37320 - The Rise of Modern Medicine, c.1750-2000
- HC22320 - Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry
- HP37520 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
- HY27320 - The Rise of Modern Medicine, c.1750-2000
- HP37420 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
- HA24720 - Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
- HA28120 - Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- HA38120 - Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
Tutor
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HYM1220 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HYM1160 - Dissertation
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HY39520 - Globalising Post-War Germany(s) 1945-2015
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
Aspire Admin
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
Moderator
- HYM5920 - Borders and borderlands in modern Asia
- HY23720 - Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
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