HISTORY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
THE RICHARD BURTON ARCHIVE (UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES) The publication of The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams, former Professor of Welsh History and former Director of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities, has attracted global attention and accolades and revealed a very different side to the world famous actor’s public persona. The book is a result of painstaking research of the handwritten diaries, which Richard Burton began in 1939 and ended just before his death in 1984, which were donated to Swansea University in 2005 by his wife, Sally Burton. The diaries, along with other personal papers, are known as The Richard Burton Collection, and today forms a central part of the £1.2 million Richard Burton Archives facility at the University’s Library. Other holdings of the Archives include the South Wales Coalfield Collection, local archive collections related to the industrial, civic, and religious history of Swansea and the surrounding area, and the papers of the University itself.
• Kingship and Medieval Political Thought • Legal History • Medieval Frontier Societies and Borderlands, and Concepts of Frontiers from the Late Roman Empire to the Present Day • Medieval Historical Writing • Minorities, Social Exclusion, Immigration and Ethnic Integration • The Natural World • Urban Life Early Modern History • European History, especially Britain, Portugal, and the German-speaking Lands • History of Disabilities • Maritime and Imperial History • Modern Representations of the Early Modern Past • Print Culture and History of the Book • The Political and Religious Culture of Seventeenth-Century Britain • Science and Medicine, Intellectual Life, and Museums and Material Culture • The Social History of Early Modern Sex and Marriage Modern History • Britain and the British Empire from 1800 to the present • British and American Legal History, Post-1750 • The Cold War and the Nuclear Age • Crime, Policing, and Punishment in Twentieth-Century Europe • Education and Intellectual History • Emigration and Urbanisation in the British Isles between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries • The First World War • Italy in the Twentieth-Century; Italian Fascism • History of Disabilities • History of Political Thought • History of Protest and Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
• Holocaust History • Memory Studies and Oral History of Twentieth-Century Europe • Public History and Heritage • Science, Medicine, and Disease • Sport and Leisure • Transnational History • Urban History • Wales and the Welsh Overseas • War and Society in Europe between 1750 and 1815 • Western Europe after 1945, including Postwar Reconstruction Research groups include: • CECSAM, the Centre for the Comparative Study of the Americas • CODAH, the Centre on Digital Arts and Humanities • CRAM: Research Group for Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory • MEMO: Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research • The Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales • The Research Group for Health, History, and Culture Graduate Centre All History research students belong to the Graduate Centre in the College of Arts and Humanities. The Centre provides pastoral as well as administrative support and is also responsible for research skills training and support, and facilitating a lively intellectual environment for the College’s postgraduate research community of 200 students.
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