Nick Woodward joined the History department in 1988. He teaches in a variety of areas. His option modules include Computing for Historians (HIH 205), From Plague to AIDS: A Population History of Britain since the Conquest (HIH 218) and An Gorta Mor: The Great Irish Famine (HIH 3138). His Special Subject module - Debates in Economic and Social History (HIH 3139) - is concerned with the impact of the industrial revolution on the quality of people’s lives.

Nick Woodward is a member of Swansea's .

Current research

Nick Woodward's research interests lie in the areas of British and European macroeconomic history and the history of population and crime in nineteenth-century Wales.

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Principal publications

Books

• The Management of the British Economy, 1945-2001 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)
• (ed., with Richard Coopey) Britain in the 1970s: The Troubled Economy (London: UCL Press, 1996)
• (ed., with N. F. R. Crafts) The British Economy since 1945 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991)

Book-chapters and journal articles

• 'Seasonality and sheep-stealing: Wales, 1730-1830', Journal of Agricultural History, 56 (2008), 25-47
• 'Infanticide in Wales, 1730-1830', Welsh History Review 23 (2007), 94-125
• 'Transportation Convictions during the Great Irish famine', Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37 (2006), 59-87
• 'Crisis Mortality in a Welsh Market Town: Camarthen, 1675-1799', Welsh History Review 22 (2005), 432-462
• 'Why Did South Wales Miners Have High Mortality?: Evidence from the Mid-Twentieth Century', Welsh History Review (2000), 116-142