About History & Welsh History
Welcome to the History and Welsh History at Cardiff
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in History and Welsh History at Cardiff is driven by the latest historical research and we offer an exciting and stimulating learning environment with a broad range of subjects.
For information on enrolment please visit our online enrolment pages and select the relevant year of study.
For new entrants, the following file offers some suggestions for background reading for the Year One History modules available:
Teaching
Our undergraduate courses range across the centuries from the post-Roman era to the late-twentieth century and cover European and British medieval history; early modern England and Wales; modern Britain history; modern European and Asian history, and Welsh history. We encourage students to investigate different approaches - theoretical and practical - to the problems of understanding historical studies. We offer both single honours and joint honours undergraduate degrees, the latter allowing students to combine History with one of a wide range of other subjects in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Cardiff, as capital city of Wales, is also the most appropriate site for the study of Welsh History and Cardiff offers undergraduate and postgraduate study in early-modern and modern Welsh history.
We have a thriving Masters programme in History and Welsh History, and a strong postgraduate community of students undertaking research for their doctorates. The Masters programmes have clusters in medieval, Crusader, early modern, social and economic, Asian, French, German, Welsh, and medical history, and Cardiff also offers interdisciplinary MAs in Medieval British Studies and Ancient and Medieval warfare. These MA programmes can all lead on to doctoral research.
Postgraduate Opportunities
History is one of the subject areas covered by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Block Grant Partnership award to Cardiff for masters and doctoral research. Information on funding opportunities offered by the AHRC, along with details of how prospective candidates can apply for AHRC postgraduate studentships can be found at
http://www.cf.ac.uk/for/prospective/pg/funding/ahrcawards/index.html
All applications are now via Cardiff’s on-line application system at:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/pg/apply/index.html
Research
Historians at Cardiff research the histories of Britain, Europe and Asia from the medieval period to the twentieth century, offering a chronological range than covers over a 1000 years of history. With a mixture of young and internationally established scholars, research at Cardiff has particular research strengths in: the Crusades, social, economic, cultural, medieval, medical, gender and Welsh history. 100% of staff were submitted for RAE2008, and based on research power (the Grade Point Average multiplied by the number of staff submitted) History at Cardiff ranks:
- 26th out of 62 History units of assessment submitted for RAE2008
- 14th in the Russell Group of universities for History
Teaching is research-led with the research interests of staff, and hence their teaching, covering topics from the Normans to German art and music; from Fascism in France to early-modern crime and witchcraft in Britain; from emigration to public health; from the history of India to the economic history of Britain in the twentieth century.
