Dr Steve Thompson
BA, PhD(Cymru)
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Senior Lecturer
Head of Department (History & Welsh History)
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: sdt@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-1884-0409
- Office: 3.07, International Politics Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621737
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Dr Steven Thompson BA, Ph.D (Wales) is a historian of the modern period with specific interest in the history of Wales and Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research interests include the history of medicine, the provision of welfare, disability history, and labour history.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HA28120 - Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- HA38120 - Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- HA24720 - Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
- HA26820 - Rhyfel Cartref America
- HA36820 - Rhyfel Cartref America
Lecturer
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HY20120 - Making History
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
Coordinator
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- HA24720 - Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
- HA38120 - Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- HA26820 - Rhyfel Cartref America
- HA28120 - Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- HA36820 - Rhyfel Cartref America
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
Tutor
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- HYM1220 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- HYM1160 - Dissertation
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
Aspire Admin
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
Moderator
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- HA26820 - Rhyfel Cartref America
- HYM5920 - Borders and borderlands in modern Asia
Steven Thompson teaches modules in modern British and American history, and contributes to a number of core modules and team-taught modules. He teaches on modules from the first year to MA level.
PhD supervision:
Aspects of the history of medicine, the South Wales Coalfield, and the modern history of Wales more generally.
Research
Steven Thompson is interested in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Wales and Britain and has specific research interests in the history of health and medicine, the provision of social welfare, women and gender, disability, and the labour movement.
He was a Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded research project Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields 1780-1948 (www.dis-ind-soc.org.uk) and, as convenor of the south Wales strand of the project, has organised a public lecture, a disability history roadshow and a professionals' workshop, and is co-authoring a number of scholarly articles.
He has been editor of Llafur, Welsh People's History Society Journal since 2008. More information about the Society and the journal can be found at www.llafur.org.
Twitter: @SThompsonAber
Office Hours (Student Contact Times)
- Tuesday 2pm-3pm
- Thursday 3pm-4pm