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American history

Collaboration across the pond: uniting histories of religious toleration in the American Revolution and European Enlightenment

Posted on 17 July 2025 by Keir Waddington

As part of their seed funding and teaching and research exchange through Cardiff University and the University of Wyoming’s hugely successful strategic international partnership, two historians of eighteenth-century America and […]

Supporting a new generation of students

Posted on 24 October 2024 by Keir Waddington

Two History graduates from the Class of 2024 win prestigious awards. Rhian Davies (BA 2024, History) has won a place to continue her studies in the USA through the highly competitive […]

Living with Seasons

Posted on 11 June 2024 by Keir Waddington

In this multi-authored post, a series of scholars from Cardiff explore the idea of living with seasons from different perspectives It is the time of year when trees are in […]

“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 […]

Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom: Interconnections in Comparative Dialogue

Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom: Interconnections in Comparative Dialogue

Posted on 12 October 2023 by Keir Waddington

It was to my great shock (and delight) that I was invited to participate in the Sawyer Seminar, “Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom: Interconnections in Comparative Dialogue,” […]