Reposted by Steve ThompsonArchif Menywod Cymru ~ Women's Archive Wales @amc-waw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Women’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/ 044
Reposted by Steve ThompsonArchif Menywod Cymru ~ Women's Archive Wales @amc-waw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Cynhadledd 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/ 034
Reposted by Steve ThompsonGlamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 17/06/2026On 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. 152
Reposted by Steve ThompsonGlamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Ar 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. 222
Reposted by Steve ThompsonLlafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 20/05/2026We’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... 158
Reposted by Steve ThompsonRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12/05/2026Yfory, 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 02212
Reposted by Steve ThompsonRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10/05/2026This 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... #Skystorianseventbrite.co.ukBlack/Beautiful: Meanings of Blackness in a Biblical Verse - IN PERSONRHS Lecture with Professor Miri Rubin (QMUL) at Aberystwyth University, 13 May 2026 02921
Reposted by Steve ThompsonDaniel G. Williams @danielgwydion.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Rhywbeth 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...nationtimecymrusydd.wordpress.comIn 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… 2114
Reposted by Steve ThompsonMartin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea: the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Wales, 1945-1994. www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...swansea.ac.ukHistory: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship in History with Museum Wales (RS949) - Swansea UniversityWe offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now. 0811
Reposted by Steve ThompsonUniversity of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Read 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... 144
Reposted by Steve ThompsonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Please 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...theguardian.comThe UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George MonbiotIt 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 6331432214
Reposted by Steve ThompsonChris Evans @cevans3.bsky.social · 28/01/2026“Slavery’s Long Goodbye” (@livunipress.bsky.social). This is a story that also takes in #SierraLeone , #Swansea in South Wales, and #Argentina 0104
Reposted by Steve ThompsonPaul O'Leary @paulaber.bsky.social · 25/11/2025My 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...tandfonline.comThe removal of Irish paupers from Britain: 1819 to the early twentieth centuryPublished in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025) 064
Reposted by Steve ThompsonBritish History Online @bho.bsky.social · 25/11/2025New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions nation.cymru/news/new-pro... #History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistorynation.cymruNew project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditionsA 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... 13715
Steve Thompson @stevethompsonaber.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Ymunwch 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. 078
Reposted by Steve ThompsonLlion Wigley @wigs24.bsky.social · 14/11/2025...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! 111
Reposted by Steve ThompsonLlion Wigley @wigs24.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Dyma 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... 264
Reposted by Steve ThompsonLlafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Are 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 01521
Reposted by Steve ThompsonCambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 27/08/2025🔎 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⬇️ 03524
Reposted by Steve ThompsonLlion Wigley @wigs24.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Rwy'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... 074
Reposted by Steve ThompsonRhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Book's out in precisely one month! Get your pre-orders (now Hardback and E-book) in *NOW* #C18th 🏴boydellandbrewer.comWelsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts. 33710
Reposted by Steve ThompsonEnglish Radical History @englishradical.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Herbert 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. 022
Steve Thompson @stevethompsonaber.bsky.social · 12/05/2025The 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...aber.ac.ukAberystwyth University - Study With Us : ScholarshipsPursuing a Master's or PhD, at Aberystwyth University, may require a significant financial investment, so make sure you check out what scholarships and other funding opportunities could be available t... 0710
Steve Thompson @stevethompsonaber.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Mae’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...aber.ac.ukPrifysgol Aberystwyth - Astudio Gyda Ni : YsgoloriaethauBoed chi’n fyfyriwr o’r Deyrnas Unedig, yr UE neu’n fyfyriwr rhyngwladol, mae Ysgoloriaethau, Benthyciadau a Chyfleoedd Ariannu ar gael i helpu eich Astudiaeth Uwchraddedig ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth. ... 022
Steve Thompson @stevethompsonaber.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Including 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. 010
Reposted by Steve ThompsonAlex Wragge-Morley @wraggem.bsky.social · 24/04/2025NOW 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 11615
Steve Thompson @stevethompsonaber.bsky.social · 09/04/2025A 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... 041
Steve Thompson @stevethompsonaber.bsky.social · 09/04/2025PhD 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... 011
Reposted by Steve ThompsonCOST Action CA22159 Euro Hist Health @eurohealthhist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025A strong & emotional start to @costprogramme.bsky.social hybrid workshop "First-Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare" hosted by University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece. Thanks to organisers Dimitra Vassiliadou, Janka Kovács & Steve Thompson @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social @kindkovacs.bsky.social 0103
Steve Thompson @stevethompsonaber.bsky.social · 03/04/2025On my way to this workshop on First Person Accounts of medicine and healthcare, and taking Eos Wyn, another Swansea Valley boy, with me. I'll be exploring his poetry and journalism from the nineteenth century and his particular contribution to the ‘culture of invalidism’ in the Victorian period. 150
Reposted by Steve ThompsonGwasg Prifysgol Cymru @gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Ar gael cyn hir. Dyma gyfrol sy'n taflu goleuni newydd ar hunaniaeth Gymreig yn ystod y cyfnod modern cynnar. Am fwy o wybodaeth am 'Cof Diwylliannol yng Nghymru’r Cyfnod Modern Cynnar' gan Dewi Alter, ewch at ein gwefan. 👇 www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/cof-diw... 085