Dr Regina Poertner

• Nationalism and the Nation in the English Civil War (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Matthew Stevens

• Redeeming Death: Mortality, Portraiture and the Quest for Salvation in Tudor England and Wales (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Adam Mosley

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• HIH3364 The Great Depression and New Deal America, 1929 -1941

  This module will explore one of the most exciting and in many respects exceptional periods in US history: to combat the devastating economic and social impact of the Great Depression that had started at the l ate 1920s, the new administration led by President Franklin D Roosevelt carried out an ambitious program of bold and rapid legislative reform and social engineering in the years 1933 to 1938. In spite of a political and legal backlash in 1937-39, and significant shortcomings, these reforms created an influential source of inspiration for future federal governments¿ responses to social and economic policy issues such as social security, health care, and industrial relations. Quantifying the New Deal¿s contribution to ending the Great Depression remains a disputed subject among historians, not least because the war-related employment boom the US economy experienced after 1941 makes it harder to separate out any long-term effects of specific New Deal policies. There is, however, consensus about the profound political impact of the New Deal¿s use of federal government-led intervention, often at the expense of individual states¿ powers, and the contribution it made to social change. As will be shown, some of these social shifts were unintentional, e.g. in race relations: unlike his wife Eleanor, F D Roosevelt was not a champion of legally enforced racial equality. The module will study in depth the different components of the New Deal and its ideological foundations, as well as the motives and aims of its chief supporters and opponents. We will use a representative selection from the vast array of primary sources that are readily available for this topic to investigate how the New Deal affected the lives of the rural and urban population in different parts of the US, why it continues to be controversial, and in what sense it can be said to have changed American politics and culture permanently.

• HIH396 From Machiavelli to Mussolini: Government and Society in Western Political Thought

  This module offers a guide to the history of ideas on government and society which continue to influence political thought and action in the 21st century. The lectures will start by looking at the origins of democratic thinking in Athens, 5th Century BC, and will then give a brief account of medieval political thought and the impact of Christian-Muslim encounters. The main part of the course will deal with modern ideas on government as developed by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, the political authors of the Enlightenment and American Revolution, and Marx and Lenin. The final part will focus on the Italian and German national socialists' assault on the liberal state and Western democratic tradition. Students will have the opportunity to read and discuss a representative selection from the 'classics' of Western political thought and reflect on their contemporary political relevance. As will be shown, some of today's best-known early modern texts on the nature of state power were misinterpreted by contemporaries and brought into disrepute by fascist ideologues who claimed them in defence of dictatorship.

Astudiais Hanes Cyffredinol a Chanoloesol, Hanes Economaidd ac Almaeneg ym mhrifysgolion Bochum a Rhydychen, ac enillais Ddosbarth Cyntaf gydag Anrhydedd yn fy MA Cydanrhydedd. Rwy’n Ysgolor Rhodes, ac mae gennyf radd D.Phil. mewn Hanes Modern o Brifysgol Rhydychen. Rhwng 1998 a 2003, roeddwn yn Gymrawd Ymchwil yn Sefydliad Hanesyddol yr Almaen yn Llundain, lle’r oeddwn yn golygu Research on British History in the Federal Republic of Germany. Cyn ymuno â Phrifysgol Abertawe ym mis Medi 2005, roeddwn yn Ddarlithydd mewn Hanes ym Mhrifysgol Bochum. 

Rwy’n aelod o Gymdeithas Selden ar gyfer Hanes Cyfraith Lloegr, ac yn aelod o’r cyngor ac yn gyn ymddiriedolwr Cymdeithas Astudiaethau’r Dadeni Prydain. Dyfarnwyd cymrodoriaeth ymchwil i mi yn Sefydliad Hanes Cyfraith Max Planck yn Frankfurt wedi i mi dderbyn Gwobr Helmut-Coing yn 2008, ac ers hynny rwyf wedi cynnal fy nghysylltiad â’r Sefydliad.  

• Partneriaeth Ddoethurol Gydweithredol AHRC ‘Redeeming death: mortality, portraiture, and the quest for salvation in Tudor England and Wales’ 2016 - 2020

  , with Dr Tarnya Cooper, Yr Athro John Spurr, £76,590