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Ethical principles for research within conflict

Posted on 15 April 2024 by Keir Waddington

In South Sudan, there’s no ethical review process for research – but a huge amount of research gets done, especially by South Sudanese researchers working for international humanitarian and development […]

Central and East European, Current Projects, European history, Modern history

‘Betrayed by Comrades’ (Cold War Conversations)

Posted on 25 March 2024 by Keir Waddington

Alice, Dora Kleinová and Vlasta Veselá in Spain Liz Kohn, a postgraduate research student in Czechoslovak history, has been investigating the political and private lives of two Communist women, Alice Glasnerová and […]

Current Projects, Early modern history, Enviromental history, Events, Modern history, News

Living with Seasons

Posted on 18 March 2024 by Keir Waddington

In their blog post, Mark Williams, Rachel Herrmann, and Keir Waddington talk about their exciting new project together Living with Seasons. It is becoming increasingly apparent that humans have taken […]

Current Projects, European history, Intellectual History, Modern history, Russian History

Keeping It Real. Or What Was Stalinism, Exactly?

Posted on 11 March 2024 by Keir Waddington

In his post, James Ryan, Senior Lecturer in Russian History, asks what is 'real' about Stalinism. There once was a peasant whose worldly possessions, apart from his home, amounted to […]

 

Habitual Petitioners: John and Jane Danyell

Posted on 19 February 2024 by Keir Waddington

In this blog post, Lloyd Bowen, Reader in Early Modern and Welsh History, writes about an inveterate Elizabethan petitioner who was incarcerated for forging the earl of Essex’s correspondence. In […]

Co-creating new pasts and new futures: the Roman ‘Diff Fusion Project

Posted on 5 February 2024 by Keir Waddington

CAER Heritage Centre launch with community members and First Minister Mark Drakeford Hello, I’m Dave Wyatt and I have a slightly unusual role because I am a Reader in Civic […]

Saving ‘the Lives and Limbs of many’: at sea with early modern ship’s surgeons

Posted on 22 January 2024 by Keir Waddington

John Woodall. Line engraving by G. Glover, 1639. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection In her new research, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin explores early modern ship's surgeons. She explains how in the early […]

“Geographies of Power”: An undergraduate research opportunities project

Posted on 3 January 2024 by Keir Waddington

Rachel Herrmann writes: How do academic historians incorporate undergraduate students into their research processes and questions? This was the question I considered from early summer 2018 to late 2019, when […]

An empire for the Enlightenment: Britain, Quebec, and the American Revolution

An empire for the Enlightenment: Britain, Quebec, and the American Revolution

Posted on 11 December 2023 by Keir Waddington

As Ashley Walsh explains in this blog post, it is a counter-intuitive feature of the Enlightenment that it could be intolerant. We tend to associate the Enlightenment with religious toleration […]

Gaming the past: Cardiff Heritage Jam

Posted on 27 November 2023 by Keir Waddington

Esther Wright explains in this post how a chance introduction to Daniel J. Finnegan, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Cardiff University, and the realization of our shared interest in […]