Centre for the Social and Cultural History of Wales

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The Centre for the Social and Cultural History of Wales is intended as a new research centre operating in the Department of History and Welsh History. It builds on the considerable strengths in the Department in research and teaching in the field of the history of Wales.

The Centre has five key aims:

• To promote the study of the history of Wales across all chronological periods;
• To support individual and collaborative research projects in the history of Wales;
• To stimulate critical analysis of the development of Welsh historiography;
• To arrange research seminars in conjunction with the Department of History and Welsh History's research seminar programme;
• To organise day schools and conferences on key themes in the history of modern Wales and to facilitate publications deriving from these events where appropriate.

The Department of History and Welsh History has a critical mass of researchers whose main or subsidiary research interests lie in the history of Wales. Collectively, the range of expertise spans the medieval, early modern and late modern periods. Thematically, the Centre’s concerns are also very varied. They include, but are not restricted to: medieval monasticism and the medieval peasantry; early modern gender and religion; modern urban developments and public health; the media, music and popular culture; missionaries and imperialism; and ethnic minorities and national identity. This concentration of expertise in Welsh history is unmatched by any other department in the United Kingdom, and it is an opportune time to create an institutional framework for co-ordinating research projects and associated activities.

Members of staff in the Department play a pivotal role in editorial responsibilities and the promotion of research more widely in the field. It is anticipated that fruitful collaborations with interested researchers in other departments at Aberystwyth – some of which already exist informally – will be established and reinforced. Formal collaboration already exists, for example, with media historians in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies.

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Aberystwyth University
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