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
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- HP37420 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HP37520 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
- HY29220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HA21820 - Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HA34520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HA24520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HA31820 - Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HY39220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
Lecturer
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HY20120 - Making History
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
Tutor
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HYM1220 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- HYM1160 - Dissertation
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
- HA34520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HP37520 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
- HQ39720 - The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
- HY11420 - Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
- HY12120 - Introduction to History
- HY24620 - Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
- HY28520 - Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- HY28920 - Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
- HY29320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- HY38920 - Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
- HYM2220 - Texts that made the Middle Ages: advanced Latin reading for postgraduate students
- HYM5120 - Concepts and Sources in Heritage Studies
- CY20720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
- HA21820 - Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HP37420 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
- HQ37520 - Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 1)
- HQ37620 - Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 2)
- HY22020 - The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
- HY24420 - Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales
- HY39120 - Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
- HY39420 - The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
- HYM6220 - Science, Place and Victorian Culture
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HCM0160 - Traethawd Hir: Hanes Cymru
- HQ35420 - The Irish in Britain, c.1815-70 (Part 1): Migration and Settlement
- HY23120 - Reading a Building
- HY29120 - Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
- HY35620 - Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
- HY36720 - War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
- HYM0020 - Medieval London c. 1200 - 1500
- HYM9920 - Working with History
- WH23520 - Wales under the Tudors
- CY30720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300 - 1500
- HA29320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HY25520 - Famine in Medieval England
- HY26720 - War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
- HY36520 - The European Reformation
- HYM2020 - England in Context in the Long Thirteenth Century
- HYM3820 - The British Atlantic World in the 18th Century
- HYM4820 - Research Concepts and Skills
- WH20120 - Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
- WH30120 - Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
- WHM1060 - Dissertation: Welsh History
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HC33520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HY25020 - Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
- HY35520 - Famine in Medieval England
- HY39320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HYM6320 - Representations of the Holocaust 1945-2020
- HA31820 - Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HQ35620 - The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
- HY23420 - History as myth-Making: the 'Myth of the Blitz'
- HY30120 - The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
- PGM3510 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- HA39320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HAM0160 - Traethawd Hir
- HC11120 - Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
- HY20120 - Making History
- HY29420 - The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
- HY39220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HYM2120 - Latin for Postgraduate Study
- HYM2820 - Gerald of Wales
- PGM3610 - Texts that made the Middle Ages: Latin for postgraduates
- WH33520 - Wales under the Tudors
- HA24520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HC23520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HQ33120 - Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 1)
- HQ33220 - Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 2)
- HQ35020 - The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
- HQ35520 - The Irish in Britain, c. 1850-1922 (Part 2): Community and Conflict
- HQ39620 - The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
- HY24320 - Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
- HY25620 - Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
- HY26520 - The European Reformation
- HY29220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HY38520 - Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- PGM4420 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1120)
- WHM1120 - Landownership and Society in Wales
Coordinator
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HP37420 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
- HP37520 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HY29220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HA21820 - Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HA34520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HA31820 - Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HA24520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HY39220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
Aspire Admin
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
Moderator
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- HA39320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HC23520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HA29320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HC33520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HY24620 - Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
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