News

History students give stamp of approval
Overall satisfaction at the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University has been rated at 92% in the latest National Student Survey (NSS) of final year undergraduate students. Published on 9 August 2017, the NSS reveals that 92% of the Department’s students were satisfied with their overall experience compared with the UK average of 84%.

Excellent results for History in NSS 2016
Aberystwyth University’s History Department has achieved an impressive score of 95% for overall student satisfaction in a UK-wide survey - significantly higher than the UK figure of 86%.

Research Fellowship Awarded
Prof. Martyn J. Powell has been awarded a Murial McCarthy Research Fellowship at Dublin’s Marsh’s Library for his project ‘Personal Debt in Georgian Dublin: Marshalseas, Spunging-Houses and the Body Politic’.

Leverhulme Trust grant awarded
Dr David Ceri Jones secures grant for his project on Trans-Atlanic Protestantism

Isabella Chwalka - Visiting Fellow
Lecturer visiting from Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität

British Academy Conference
British Academy conference on Uses of the Past in Past Societies – a global perspective

Seals Virtual Exhibition
Virtual exhibition of seals from medieval Wales and the Welsh Marches

Philanthropist meets beneficiaries of Welsh history scholarship
A philanthropist who donated half a million pounds to his alma mater has visited Aberystwyth University to meet the first postgraduate students to benefit from his generosity.