Yr Athro David Turner

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  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Michael Bresalier

• Women and Sexual Deviancy in England 1770-1830 (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Sarah Crook

• Living with Vernon: The Briton Ferry Asylum for the Insane (dyfarnwyd 2023)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Jon Gower

• Visible and invisible disability in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Kirsti Bohata

• Gender, Authority and the Mouth in Medieval Culture (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Laura Kalas

• HI-M22 Dissertation

  Students produce a dissertation of up to 20,000 words on a historical topic, chosen in conjunction with their supervisor. This represents the culmination of the History MAs, and constitutes Part Two of the programme.

• HI-M38 Themes in History

  This module provides an introduction to advanced historiography. It is designed to develop students¿ awareness of traditional historiographical concerns alongside their knowledge current trends and new directions in writing and thinking about the past.

• HIH122 Making History

  How do historians study the past? Why do their accounts of the past differ, and why do they change over time? This module will help you to understand the various concepts, methods, and approaches that academic historians use when writing history and generating historical explanations. By the end of it, you will understand how and why professional historians disagree on many topics, and you will be equipped to evaluate competing interpretations of the same past events and processes. The module also trains you in the fundamental skills required to study history as an undergraduate, and gives you an opportunity to learn more about the interests and expertise of the history staff you¿ll be working with at Swansea. It will help you make the transition from being taught history at school or college to studying history at university, and it will introduce you to the many different kinds of history you can explore in the course of your degree.

• HIH124 Britain and the World, 1800 to 2000

  This module will provide an overview of the history of British politics, society, culture, and the economy from c. 1800 to the present, from a national and international perspective. The lectures and seminars for this module will give students the opportunity to engage closely with events, processes, and people - both male and female, from diverse ethnic backgrounds - who contributed to the making of the modern British state and society, and who defined Britain¿s relationship with the wider world. We will discuss the transformative impact of warfare, Empire and colonialism, industrial and technological change. We will also consider the significance of race, class, and gender, and how they relate to national sentiment and social and political emancipation movements in Britain and beyond.

• HIH237 The Practice of History

  The purpose of the module is to encourage you to think more deeply about how historians work and, in particular, about how we as historians can locate and use primary historical sources effectively as a means of interpreting and understanding the past. During the module we will learn about the survival of historical evidence, how it is organised and made accessible to historians to undertake their research, and how to effectively locate and interpret it in your studies. We will consider how the process of doing historical research changes over time, in particular with the impact of recent developments like digitization. At the core of the module will be the work you undertake with others in your seminar group using a range of primary sources which your seminar tutor will introduce to you. As part of the module assessment you will also undertake your own primary source based research project using items from these collections. The module is designed strengthen your analytical skills and to help prepare you for the more extensive uses of primary evidence which you will encounter in final year special subjects and dissertation.

• HIH284 Disunited Kingdom? Class, Race, Gender and Social Division in Twentieth-Century Britain

  This module examines the dynamics and structure of British society over the course of the 20th century. Despite radical social, political and economic changes, the idea of a British nation, a British people and a British way of life remained powerful and persistent. Yet beneath a veneer of social and and national unity were profound divisions and inequalities. This module explores how categories such as gender, class, race, region, nation and religion evolved and persisted. In doing so, the module considers what causes social change and the extent to which there was anything resembling British society at all. The module will relate these historical contexts to the present day. It asks how history can be used to understand contemporary social divisions and seeks to empower and enable students to think critically about how Britain and `Britishness¿ are constituted in contemporary society.

• HIH3300 History Dissertation

  The History dissertation is a free-standing, 40-credit module that runs across both semesters of Level Three. Candidates conduct research upon a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of staff teaching for the degrees in History, and concerning a topic that falls within staff research and teaching interests.

• HIH3380 Deformity, Deviance and Difference: Exploring Disability History

  This module examines how understandings of disability have changed over time. It analyses how disabled people have been treated in the past, and how social policy towards disability has developed. The module discusses how ideas about human difference have evolved from the Middle Ages to the present day and uses a variety of source materials to examine disabled people¿s experiences in the past. It will explore how key events such as the Reformation, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and the World Wars of the twentieth century have impacted upon the treatment of disabled people. The module asks what happens to our understanding of the past when we place traditionally marginalized people at the centre of our analysis. It provides context to modern struggles for disability rights and examines how historical understanding of disability can help to create a more equal and inclusive society today.

• Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields 1780-1948 2011 - 2016

  , with Professor Kirsti Bohata, £972,000

Roeddwn yn gynghorydd hanesyddol ar gyfres BBC Radio Four, 'Disability: A New History' (2013): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021mdwt