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Current Projects, European history, Modern history, Social history of medicine

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 […]

Current Projects, Early modern history, Welsh History

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 […]

East Asian History, Modern history, Teaching

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 […]

Enlightenment, Modern history, Welsh History

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 […]

 

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 […]

Writing the Supernatural

Posted on 15 December 2024 by Keir Waddington

In his post, Jan Machielsen, Reader in Early Modern History, writes about a new venture where his students write blogs to showcase the work they are doing on the supernatural. […]

 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 […]