We’ve got a busy summer ahead! ☀️ Don’t miss out on our new online summer series on 1926 and coalfield community ⛏️ Full programme: www.llafur.org/events/and-t...

Yfory, bydd y Gymdeithas yn ymweld â haneswyr @aberuni.bsky.social, @librarywales.bsky.social, a'r rhanbarth ehangach. Byddwn yn trafod addysgu ac ymchwil mewn hanes Cymru. Mae'r diwrnod yn dod i ben gyda darlith gyhoeddus gan yr Athro Miri Rubin (QMUL) bit.ly/4wkklUd. Croeso i bawb #Skystorians

This Wednesday we're @librarywales.bsky.social and @aberuni.bsky.social to meet with historians from the region. Subjects include history in Welsh HE and new work in Welsh history. Our public lecture (6pm) is by Prof Miri Rubin (QMUL). All welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackbeaut... #Skystorians

Rhywbeth i’w ddarllen tra'n aros am y canlyniadau, efallai. @richardwynjones.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social @jasminedonahaye.bsky.social nationtimecymrusydd.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/i...

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea: the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Wales, 1945-1994. www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Read the latest issue of The Welsh History Review! This twice-yearly journal publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on Welsh history, from medieval to modern. Explore abstracts of some fascinating articles below ⤵️ www.uwp.co.uk/journal/wels...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Slavery’s Long Goodbye” (@livunipress.bsky.social). This is a story that also takes in #SierraLeone , #Swansea in South Wales, and #Argentina

My review of Lewis Darwen and Don Macraild's excellent book 'The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain' www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3JECK... Many insights here for social and political historians. #skystorians #IrishHistory bsky.app/profile/tand...

New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions nation.cymru/news/new-pro... #History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory

Ymunwch â’n prosiect ymchwil newydd, yn astudio doethuriaeth am hanes meddygaeth lysieuol yng Nghymru. Ar y cyd â @librarywales.bsky.social, @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social a Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru, mae’r prosiect yn cynnwys lleoliadau gwaith a mynediad i gasgliadau’r sefydliadau uchod.

...Ernst Bloch, Colin Ward, madarch hud, Tom Nefyn, Hilda Jennings, Winifred Coombe Tennant, Merfyn Turner, John Roderick Rees, didreisedd, David Wills, tai cydweithredol, Cymdeithas yr Iaith, Skanda Vale, Dewi Prys-Thomas, Harri Webb, sosialaeth iwtopaidd, Noelle Davies, Taoaeth a llawer mwy!

Dyma rai o'r bobl/pethe o'i fewn: hipis, heddychiaeth, diddymu carchardai, Cassie Davies, Angela Davis, Kropotkin a chyd-gymorth, Edward Carpenter, gardd bentrefi, Cylch Cadwgan, comiwnau, William Morris, Alwyn Lloyd, Gwenan Jones, Gwenallt, celfi Brynmawr, CND, Adfer, A. S. Neill, R. J. Derfel...

Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story! Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools. 🗓️Friday 24th October 🕰️2pm 📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum

🔎 New research identifies 19th-century welfare cuts as a major cause of rise in early-childhood mortality. The findings - from researchers incl. @camhistory.bsky.social's Prof Simon Szreter - reveal a politically-induced cause of the irregular drop in survival rates during this period. Read more⬇️

Rwy'n hapus i gyhoeddi bydd Ynysoedd Gobaith, fy llyfr am iwtopia a syniadau a mentrau iwtopaidd yng Nghymru'r 20G yn cael ei gyhoeddi mewn ychydig fisoedd yn Nhachwedd! www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/ynysoed...

Book's out in precisely one month! Get your pre-orders (now Hardback and E-book) in *NOW* #C18th 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Herbert Smith, President of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain 1922-29, was born in a workhouse in Kippax, West Yorkshire #OnThisDay 1862. A miner from the age of 10, Smith was the miners’ chief spokesman during the 1926 General Strike.

The deadline for the Pennar Scholarship in the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University comes at the end of the month. The Department welcomes PhD proposals for research on the social and economic history of Wales in the period 1500 to 2000. www.aber.ac.uk/en/study-wit...

Mae’r dyddiad cau ar gyfer Ysgoloriaeth Pennar yn Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru, Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn agosáu. Mae’r Adran yn croesawu cynigion am brosiectau PhD ar hanes cymdeithasol ac economaidd Cymru, 1500-2000. www.aber.ac.uk/cy/study-wit...

Including our CDP PhD studentship, with @librarywales.bsky.social, @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social and the National Botanic Garden of Wales, on the history of medical herbalism in Wales.

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz

A fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award on the history of medical herbalism in Wales, at the Department of History and Welsh History, with the National Library of Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru and the National Botanic Garden of Wales. For further details: www.aber.ac.uk/en/grad-scho...

PhD cydweithredol ar hanes meddygaeth lysieuol yng Nghymru, wedi ei ariannu’n llawn yn Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, ar y cyd â Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Amgueddfa Cymru a Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru Am fanylion pellach: www.aber.ac.uk/cy/grad-scho...

A strong & emotional start to @costprogramme.bsky.social hybrid workshop "First-Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare" hosted by University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece. Thanks to organisers Dimitra Vassiliadou, Janka Kovács & Steve Thompson @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social @kindkovacs.bsky.social

On my way to this workshop on First Person Accounts of medicine and healthcare, and taking Eos Wyn, another Swansea Valley boy, with me. I'll be exploring his poetry and journalism from the nineteenth century and his particular contribution to the ‘culture of invalidism’ in the Victorian period.

Ar gael cyn hir. Dyma gyfrol sy'n taflu goleuni newydd ar hunaniaeth Gymreig yn ystod y cyfnod modern cynnar. Am fwy o wybodaeth am 'Cof Diwylliannol yng Nghymru’r Cyfnod Modern Cynnar' gan Dewi Alter, ewch at ein gwefan. 👇 www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/cof-diw...