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Latest Research News- The Legacy of the 1917 February in Contemporary Russia and the wider world January 4, 2017USW is hosting a lecture by Dr Matthew Rendle (University of Exeter) to mark the centenary of the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia. Venue: The Old Debating Chamber of the National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay Time: 6.30pm, on 7 February 2017 The centenary of the Russian Revolution marks a major opportunity for reflection […]
- Between Scylla and Charybdis December 9, 2016USW historian Norry LaPorte has recently published ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis: END and its Attempt to Overcome the Bipolar World Order in the 1980s’ in the Australian journal Labour History (issue 111, 2016). “European Nuclear Disarmament [END]”, says LaPorte, “had a vision of a humanistic socialism from below that would be capable of breaking up […]
- Praying and Campaigning December 9, 2016Maria Nita, a research assistant with History at USW, has published her first book. Praying and Campaigning with Environmental Christians: Green Religion and the Climate Movement. An ethnographic study of environmental Christian networks involved in the climate and transition towns movements, the book examines the ways in which green Christians engage with their communities and […]
- Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War December 8, 2016USW historian Fiona Reid features in a new collection of essays on Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War, edited by Jason Crouthammel and Peter Leese. Fiona’s essay ‘Losing Face: Trauma and Maxillofacial Injury in the First World War’ reports on her on-going research on medicine during and after World War One. […]
- The Legacy of the 1917 February in Contemporary Russia and the wider world January 4, 2017
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Desperate Remedies?
The History Society Presents … Alun Withey What was it like to experience illness or surgery during the seventeenth century? This was a time when trained doctors were rare, surgery excruciatingly painful, if not fatal, and remedies concocted from a … Continue reading
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News from the classroom … What was the Black Death?
History Foundation Module: What was the Black Death? What was the Black Death? The answer – as every schoolchild knows – is simple: the Black Death was the bubonic plague (or Yersinia Pestis to give it its scientific name). It’s … Continue reading
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Forthcoming paper: Alun Withey on early modern medicine
‘The ‘Dyn Hysbys’ and the Doctor: reassessing the medical history of early modern Wales’ Wednesday 29 October 2008 2.30pm, D121b, University of Glamorgan (Treforest Campus) Alun Withey graduated with first class honours in History from Glamorgan in 2005 and his … Continue reading
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