Women’s Archive Wales Conference 2026 This year the Conference will be held on Saturday 3rd October and Sunday 4th October 2026 at Swansea.com Stadium, Landore, Swansea. Full details, a programme and booking form are available on our website. Everyone welcome! www.womensarchivewales.org/en/

Cynhadledd Archif Menywod Cymru 2026 Eleni cynhelir y Gynhadledd ar ddydd Sadwrn 3ydd Hydref a dydd Sul 4ydd Hydref 2026 yn Stadiwm Swansea.com, Glandŵr, Abertawe. Manylion llawn, rhaglen a ffurlen archebu ar ein gwefan: www.womensarchivewales.org/cy/

On this day 50 years ago, on 17 June 1976, St Athan’s Boys Village celebrated its Golden Jubilee. A holiday camp for the sons of miners, it was run by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Wales.

Ar y dydd hwn 50 mlynedd yn ôl, ar 17 Mehefin 1976, dathlodd Pentref Bechgyn Sain Tathan ei Jiwbilî Aur. Gwersyll gwyliau ar gyfer meibion i lowyr, rhedwyd y gwersyll gan Glybiau Bechgyn a Merched Cymru.

We’ve got a busy summer ahead! ☀️ Don’t miss out on our new online summer series on 1926 and coalfield community ⛏️ Full programme: www.llafur.org/events/and-t...

Yfory, bydd y Gymdeithas yn ymweld â haneswyr @aberuni.bsky.social, @librarywales.bsky.social, a'r rhanbarth ehangach. Byddwn yn trafod addysgu ac ymchwil mewn hanes Cymru. Mae'r diwrnod yn dod i ben gyda darlith gyhoeddus gan yr Athro Miri Rubin (QMUL) bit.ly/4wkklUd. Croeso i bawb #Skystorians

This Wednesday we're @librarywales.bsky.social and @aberuni.bsky.social to meet with historians from the region. Subjects include history in Welsh HE and new work in Welsh history. Our public lecture (6pm) is by Prof Miri Rubin (QMUL). All welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackbeaut... #Skystorians

Black/Beautiful: Meanings of Blackness in a Biblical Verse - IN PERSON

RHS Lecture with Professor Miri Rubin (QMUL) at Aberystwyth University, 13 May 2026

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Rhywbeth i’w ddarllen tra'n aros am y canlyniadau, efallai. @richardwynjones.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social @jasminedonahaye.bsky.social nationtimecymrusydd.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/i...

In the Wake of 1997: Event or Process?

Ron Davies, the Labour Secretary of State who oversaw Welsh devolution, famously insisted that devolution was “a process, not an event.” Yet the retirement this week of Dewi Llwyd, the beloved broa…

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Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea: the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Wales, 1945-1994. www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

History: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship in History with Museum Wales (RS949) - Swansea University

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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Read the latest issue of The Welsh History Review! This twice-yearly journal publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on Welsh history, from medieval to modern. Explore abstracts of some fascinating articles below ⤵️ www.uwp.co.uk/journal/wels...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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“Slavery’s Long Goodbye” (@livunipress.bsky.social). This is a story that also takes in #SierraLeone , #Swansea in South Wales, and #Argentina

Chris Evans@cevans3.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Coming soon from @livunipress.bsky.social A wild ride from Cuba to the Cape Colony and Civil War Kentucky. The moral of the story? Although C19 Britons thought their model of emancipation was exceptional, it was anything but #Cuba #AmericanCivilWar #slavery #emancipation #SouthAfrica

My review of Lewis Darwen and Don Macraild's excellent book 'The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain' www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3JECK... Many insights here for social and political historians. #skystorians #IrishHistory bsky.app/profile/tand...

The removal of Irish paupers from Britain: 1819 to the early twentieth century

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions nation.cymru/news/new-pro... #History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory

New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions

A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...

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Ymunwch â’n prosiect ymchwil newydd, yn astudio doethuriaeth am hanes meddygaeth lysieuol yng Nghymru. Ar y cyd â @librarywales.bsky.social, @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social a Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru, mae’r prosiect yn cynnwys lleoliadau gwaith a mynediad i gasgliadau’r sefydliadau uchod.

NationCymru@nation.cymru · 9mo ago

A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival of the NHS wp.me/p8Mk4U-198p

...Ernst Bloch, Colin Ward, madarch hud, Tom Nefyn, Hilda Jennings, Winifred Coombe Tennant, Merfyn Turner, John Roderick Rees, didreisedd, David Wills, tai cydweithredol, Cymdeithas yr Iaith, Skanda Vale, Dewi Prys-Thomas, Harri Webb, sosialaeth iwtopaidd, Noelle Davies, Taoaeth a llawer mwy!

Dyma rai o'r bobl/pethe o'i fewn: hipis, heddychiaeth, diddymu carchardai, Cassie Davies, Angela Davis, Kropotkin a chyd-gymorth, Edward Carpenter, gardd bentrefi, Cylch Cadwgan, comiwnau, William Morris, Alwyn Lloyd, Gwenan Jones, Gwenallt, celfi Brynmawr, CND, Adfer, A. S. Neill, R. J. Derfel...

Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ar gael nawr! 📚 Mae 'Ynysoedd Gobaith' gan Llion Wigley yn olrhain hanes gwahanol fudiadau ac unigolion a geisiodd greu byd gwell yng Nghymru’r 20fed ganrif trwy fentrau iwtopaidd amrywiol. Dewch o hyd i gopi yn eich siop lyfrau leol! www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/ynysoed... @wigs24.bsky.social

Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story! Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools. 🗓️Friday 24th October 🕰️2pm 📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum

🔎 New research identifies 19th-century welfare cuts as a major cause of rise in early-childhood mortality. The findings - from researchers incl. @camhistory.bsky.social's Prof Simon Szreter - reveal a politically-induced cause of the irregular drop in survival rates during this period. Read more⬇️

Economic History Society@echistsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Now on the Long Run: 'The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales'. By David Green, Gabriel Mesevage, Graham Mooney & Simon Szreter. ‪@kings-sga.bsky.social‬ ‪@kingshistory.bsky.social‬ ‪@jhu.edu‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rwy'n hapus i gyhoeddi bydd Ynysoedd Gobaith, fy llyfr am iwtopia a syniadau a mentrau iwtopaidd yng Nghymru'r 20G yn cael ei gyhoeddi mewn ychydig fisoedd yn Nhachwedd! www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/ynysoed...

Book's out in precisely one month! Get your pre-orders (now Hardback and E-book) in *NOW* #C18th 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819

Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.

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Herbert Smith, President of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain 1922-29, was born in a workhouse in Kippax, West Yorkshire #OnThisDay 1862. A miner from the age of 10, Smith was the miners’ chief spokesman during the 1926 General Strike.

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brian-hanley.bsky.social@brian-hanley.bsky.social · last yr.

Forthcoming Saothar 50 will have article on Irish solidarity with the miners. www.rte.ie/archives/201...

The deadline for the Pennar Scholarship in the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University comes at the end of the month. The Department welcomes PhD proposals for research on the social and economic history of Wales in the period 1500 to 2000. www.aber.ac.uk/en/study-wit...

Mae’r dyddiad cau ar gyfer Ysgoloriaeth Pennar yn Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru, Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn agosáu. Mae’r Adran yn croesawu cynigion am brosiectau PhD ar hanes cymdeithasol ac economaidd Cymru, 1500-2000. www.aber.ac.uk/cy/study-wit...

Including our CDP PhD studentship, with @librarywales.bsky.social, @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social and the National Botanic Garden of Wales, on the history of medical herbalism in Wales.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last yr.

Four fully-funded collaborative PhD studentships available with the cultural partners of the REACH Consortium (Historic Royal Palaces, British Film Institute, Royal Museums Greenwich,/National Maritime Museum). Deadlines 26 May-30 June. And lots more at other institutions too: full list below.

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz

A fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award on the history of medical herbalism in Wales, at the Department of History and Welsh History, with the National Library of Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru and the National Botanic Garden of Wales. For further details: www.aber.ac.uk/en/grad-scho...

PhD cydweithredol ar hanes meddygaeth lysieuol yng Nghymru, wedi ei ariannu’n llawn yn Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, ar y cyd â Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Amgueddfa Cymru a Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru Am fanylion pellach: www.aber.ac.uk/cy/grad-scho...