Modern history

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]