Swansea’s History Department is one of the UK’s largest and admits around 250 new undergraduates every year to study history.  The student body is made up of people from all parts of the UK along with a growing cohort of international students from European and North American universities. 

Learning and Teaching

The teaching staff is similarly diverse and includes academics from Canada, Germany, the USA and the UK.   We are able to offer a rich and varied menu of historical subjects that matches our diverse character.  We are all active researchers and writers, so you will be exploring history with national and international experts in their fields of study.  If you wish to study other subjects alongside history, there are many opportunities within the Arts and Humanities and also with Economics, Geography and Law, and our modular system encourages a flexible approach to study.

We are committed to offering those who study with us an exciting and rigorous education.  We try to ensure that all our students leave not just with degree that will be of advantage in the job market, but also with a life-long passion for history, a better understanding of how the past has shaped the world they live in, and with memories of an excellent undergraduate experience.

Research

The research activity of the staff in History is characterized by its very wide chronological and geographical range and by the variety of its theoretical concerns and approaches. This stems from our passion and expertise as individual researchers. The Department has nurtured a long tradition of distinguished scholars whose research excellence has been recognized in a variety of ways, including the election of two members of the Department as Fellows of the British Academy in recent years.  Information about the Department's many research activities can be viewed UK ‘student experience’ of the year .

Swansea and the University

Swansea University itself was founded in 1920 and boasts a spectacular seaside campus with sweeping views across Swansea Bay and the beautiful Gower peninsula.  The campus is a mix of the modern and the traditional and includes the historic Singleton Abbey, once the focal point of the estate of nineteenth-century copper magnates. The estate’s magnificent parklands flank the campus, meaning the university is literally sandwiched between the blue of the sea and the green of the park.  Many students live in the neighbouring residential areas, where they are in easy walking distance of both the city centre and the university.  Swansea University was named winner of the Inaugural Times Higher Education Supplement award for the UK's 'Best Student Experience'.

History is part of the University's College of Arts and Humanities.