Current Projects

Pétain’s Silence

Posted on 27 October 2025 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 September 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 […]

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 […]

Celebrating multidisciplinary Asian and African histories at Cardiff

Posted on 30 June 2025 by Keir Waddington

in their post, Dr Federica Ferlanti & Dr Helena Lopes, write about the latest workshop run by the Asia Africa History Research Cluster. What do sunken ancient Indian panels, the […]

Race and the Republic: the politics of race on the Spanish left

Posted on 4 February 2025 by Keir Waddington

In his post, Henry Brown, lecturer in Modern European History here at Cardiff, explores antifascism and race in modern Spain On the night of January 5th, 2024, along with most […]

Heritage and History at the portside

Posted on 13 January 2025 by Keir Waddington

In November 2024, the Norwegian Church Arts Centre and the Cardiff Centre for Welsh History joined forces to host a fascinating workshop on the heritage and history of Welsh port […]

 Two Czechoslovakias

Posted on 18 November 2024 by Keir Waddington

Liz Kohn is an MPhil student working with Prof Mary Heimann and Dr Tetyana Pavlush on ‘Invisible Women in the Slánský Trial‘. In her blog, she explores two different sides […]

Who’s that man? Wales, Empire and a painting in ‘Glamorgan Building’ / Pwy yw’r dyn hwn? Cymru, yr Ymerodraeth a darlun yn ‘Adeilad Morgannwg’

Posted on 16 October 2024 by Keir Waddington

In this post, Marion Löffler, Reader in West History, talks about a painting and her historical detective work to find the story behind the figure in Indian dress. Compton, Charles; […]

Making Histories

Posted on 7 October 2024 by Keir Waddington

In this blog, Esther Wright (Senior Lecturer in Digital History), Steph Ward (Senior Lecturer in Modern Welsh History), and 10 students reflect on their experiences of writing group projects for […]

New Year, New Research

Posted on 23 September 2024 by Keir Waddington

In his post, Dr Ian Rapley, Senior Lecturer in East Asian History at Cardiff, talks about the joys and the trepidations of starting a new research project. The onset of […]