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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · 10d

📣 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 ⬇️

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 10d

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 👇

Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund: meet the grantees - Museums Association

The Museums Association has awarded its first round of grants from the Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, a programme of grant-making, networking and

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · 14d

📣 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

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 16d

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

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 16d

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

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Sep 8

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?

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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Dr Caroline Bourne @carolinebourne.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

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GENCAS @swanseagencas.bsky.social · Aug 29

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!

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Tomás Irish @tomasirish.bsky.social · Aug 21

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/...

History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century

This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present-day debat...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Aug 19

This looks like a magnificent event!

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Aug 18

Registration is open for the @WomensHistScot Annual Conference 2025! Exploring new directions in women’s & gender history in Scotland.

Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.

Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 19

Wednesday 25 June 5:30pm: last chance to catch a British History in the Long 18th Century (IHR) Seminar live until the autumn. Hybrid session, in London & online. David Turner (Swansea University), speaking on 'Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’.

Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century

www.history.ac.uk

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

A pink square that says 'tell us what you think'

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Jul 22

... and here's the complete list: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Three new seminars for 2025/26: African History, Migration & Mobility, and Planetary Histories. Programmes coming soon. Watch this space...

History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Jul 21

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...

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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Jul 21

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).

History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Jul 18

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.

Simon John @simonajohn.bsky.social · Jul 18

Submitted to the publisher this morning: 'Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments', edited by myself, @tomasirish.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. Could also have been titled 'Colston Five Years On' @swanseahistory.bsky.social

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Jul 17

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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History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 17

Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees

According to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, graduates in computer science, computer engineering and graphic design all have unemployment rates at 7% or greater; young workers who hold a number of much-maligned humanities degrees—including English, history and philosophy—are all more hirable.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Jul 16

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

Caerphilly Castle to reopen following two-year restoration - Museums Association

Elsewhere, Cyfarthfa Castle and Shire Hall Museum receive funding for transformative projects

www.museumsassociation.org

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