JOIN US: apply for a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship, researching the history of the fiefs of Jersey and the island’s seigneurial institutions and culture, from the Norman ducal period to the English Civil War. Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI170/p...

📣 The GENCAS Autumn 2025 Termcard is here! 🍂 Co-organised with Dr Sarah Crook from Swansea’s History, Heritage and Classics Department, this term’s line-up features seminars, supportive workshops, and guest speakers exploring gender from fresh academic perspectives. ✨ Full details below ⬇️

Meet the grantees of our Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund 🪴 We've awarded our first round of grants for health and wellbeing programmes in museums, funded by the Julia Rausing Trust, to support nine museums in developing and continuing their groundbreaking work. More about the projects 👇

📣 Happening TOMORROW! We'll be there! ✨ History and Heritage Fair ✨ 📍 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea 🗓️ 27 September 2025 ⏰ 10–4 💷 Free entry & open to all Discover local and family history with a day of expertise, information, and talks. #Swansea #HistoryFair #Heritage #LocalHistory

It's a privilege to welcome @sarahcrook.bsky.social as our keynote speaker for this conference. Sarah's paper is drawn from her new book 'Unhappy Mothers: Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain' which is available to read Open Access.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

Delighted that our Head of Department, Dr Matthew Stevens, will be a commissioner on the International Commission for the History of Towns. Who else will be at the assembly later this month?

We're so looking forward to talking to everyone at the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social History and Heritage Fair at the National Waterfront Museum later this month! Come find our stall, we'd love to meet you.

Swansea History students take on the world! We all wish Dylan the very best of luck as he heads off to the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore! www.instagram.com/reel/DNF1crV...

Just two weeks to submit your abstracts for the 'Medieval Wales and the March' International Medieval Congress sessions sponsored by the Mortimer History Society. Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2025. @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 #medievalsky #skystorians #academicsky

The Welsh North American Association celebrates its 96th North American Festival of Wales this week! Based in the US? Browse UWP's virtual booth with @uchicagopress.bsky.social and receive 30% off a selection of Wales Studies books 📚 Code: FESTWALES30 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...

We're busy putting together a fantastic termcard for this semester. Our regular 'write together' sessions will be back, and we have some wonderful external speakers lined up, alongside some great roundtables. Watch this space!

Delighted to be part of this roundtable on US 'Universities and the State' now available open access with @hisjournalha.bsky.social History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century - History onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This looks like a magnificent event!

You can access the recording of Professor David Turner's paper here, too! #disabilityhistory

Are you a recent Swansea History grad? We'd love to hear about your experiences with us! Scan the QR code to share your thoughts about our community.

Are you or a loved one looking for a History place this autumn? Give our clearing line a call on 0808 175 3071 - we have three fab lecturers waiting to talk to you about how you can join our community! More info about Clearing is here: www.swansea.ac.uk

We're always pleased to see another #swanseahistory publication out in the wild!

We can't wait to welcome our incoming class of 2025. If you (or a loved one!) are looking for a home to study history, don't hesitate to contact us. Our clearing line is open bright and early tomorrow ⭐️🌿🌱🫶 tel:08081753071

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Great to see Dr Tomas Irish's book, Feeding the Mind, out in paperback. You can find out about it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

We're pleased that this collection will be out soon. Keep an eye on your favourite bookseller to grab your copy of Tomás Irish, Simon John and Hannah Lyons (eds), Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).

Congratulations @simonajohn.bsky.social, @tomasirish.bsky.social, Hannah Lyons, and the contributors! We're looking forward to seeing the volume when it's in print.

I love looking at medieval art for traces of the common people. Check these out, farmers harvesting, clearly also a job women did. I'll keep an eye out for them in films/tv shows set in that period to see if they're included.

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News | Caerphilly Castle to reopen following two-year restoration – elsewhere, Cyfarthfa Castle and Shire Hall Museum receive funding for transformative projects

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Just over a week to go until the closing date for this...

Our Associate Fellowship category is for those at an earlier stage their research careers - for example, completion of a #History PhD - or History professionals (teachers, curators, archivists etc.) who make research possible. Applications are welcome at any time bit.ly/44r8NTg #Skystorians

👇 Another great review of a recent publication by one of the @swanseahistory.bsky.social team 👇

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To hear more stories of people who have come to Britain to work in the NHS throughout its history, visit the @migrationmuseum.org digital exhibition, Heart of the Nation: buff.ly/7Pv11G1. It brings to life the experiences of some of the many people who came to Britain to help build the NHS.

A call for help from @swanseahistory.bsky.social's Gethin Matthews @ww1cymru-wales.bsky.social.

Tomorrow, at 6.30pm, we welcome Professor Peter Gatrell to give the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture. Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' bit.ly/4l7ShgF The lecture takes place in person at Mary Ward House, London, and online. All are welcome. #Skystorians

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Fantastic opportunity to work with @sarahcrook.bsky.social here:

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Brilliant freelance curator project for @rcn.org.uk in Wales. Develop an exhibition celebrating the history of Ty Maeth, the RCN's HQ. £3k, til September, freelance. The history of nursing in Wales is fascinating - can't wait to see the eventual show! museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/exhibiti...

A great opportunity to hear @profdavidturner.bsky.social, one of @swanseahistory.bsky.social, speak on disability in the eighteenth century!