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Keir Waddington

Keir Waddington

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Visions of the Future from Central and Eastern Europe

Posted on 7 September 2026 by Keir Waddington

In her post, Keston Fellow Dr Iona Ramsay explains how scholars at a recent workshop view Central and Eastern Europe as a place where different visions of the future have […]

History is delicious at Cardiff!

Posted on 13 August 2026 by Keir Waddington

In the History First Year core module ‘Global Histories’, one of the weekly seminars covers histories of potatoes. As a collective spin-off, this blog post offers three vignettes by Cardiff […]

Making Ely Memory Lane: Perspectives from Some of the Project’s “Golden Oldies”

Posted on 5 August 2026 by Keir Waddington

In her blog, Cardiff PhD student Rhianedd Collins and participants in her project Ely Memory Lane and using games to explore inter-generational experiences, childhood, and Ely's history. What is the […]

Happily Together: Gardens for the Children at Penrice Castle

Posted on 27 July 2026 by Keir Waddington

In her blog post, Esther Jones (PhD student in History) talks about the nature of the garden and its role in children's education in eighteenth-century Wales “We have never yet […]

How Troubled Was My Valley? 1941’s How Green Was My Valley and Contemporary America

Posted on 23 June 2026 by Keir Waddington

In his blog post, Rhys Peregrine, a PhD student at Cardiff, writes about how How Green Was My Valley, a defining ‘Welsh’ film, can tell us more about the troubled […]

Pétain’s Silence

Posted on 27 March 2026 by Keir Waddington

In his blog post, Professor Kevin Passmore draws on his new third-year module on Occupied France and on his experience as a former Registered Mental Nurse to explore Pétain and […]

Talking Politics in the Seventeenth Century

Posted on 22 November 2025 by Keir Waddington

In his new post, Professor Lloyd Bowen talks about his current research on political labels and words were used to confer identifies and divide people. “Brexiteer”, ‘Remoaner”; “Fascist”, “Communist”; “Radical […]

Reflections on POWs on the 80th anniversary of the Second World War – views from a dissertation student

Posted on 2 September 2025 by Keir Waddington

In the wake of the 80th anniversary of the Second World War, this blog post by Bella Churchward, a recent History graduate at Cardiff, reflects on her dissertation supervised by […]

Rats, Fleas… and Phylogenetic Trees: Teacing the Black Death with Videogames

Posted on 14 August 2025 by Keir Waddington

In his blog, Stefan Visnjevac, lecturer in Medieval history, explains how we can use video games to help our students get a better understanding of the Black Death and the […]

The Long Life of Dic Siôn Dafydd and his ‘children’

Posted on 2 August 2025 by Keir Waddington

In her post, Dr Marion Loeffler, Reader in Welsh History, connects ‘Yma o Hyd’ (Still Here) to a history of satrical ballads that championed the Welsh language. In 2022, the […]