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.
Undergraduate 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 economic and social British history; modern French and German history; India history and Chinese history.
All our teaching is research-led, covering topics from the Normans to Goebbels and National Socialism; from Fascism in France to early-modern crime and witchcraft in Britain; from Welsh emigration to the 'Great Depression' of the 1930s, from the history of shell shock to the economic history of Britain in the twentieth century. 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.
Postgraduate Opportunities
We have thriving MA programmes in History and in Welsh History, and a strong postgraduate community of students undertaking research for their doctorates. The MA programmes have routes 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.
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
Research
With a mixture of young and internationally established scholars, Historical research at Cardiff has particular research strengths in: the Crusades, social, economic, cultural, medieval, medical, gender and Welsh history. To find out more about the research undertaken in the Department, please visit our research pages.
