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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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Where’s the best place to research the American Revolution? Boston, the urban crucible of resistance to British rule? Or Virginia, home to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Both have much to offer, but there’s also a wealth of material in … Continue reading →