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The department offers expertise in a wide field of economics and social and general historical studies. The Department is a leading centre for the study of history and offers a warm welcome to postgraduates.

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War has been a catalyst for violent change throughout human history, inflicting terrible suffering yet evoking great bravery. The MA in War and Society is a unique degree exploring war and its effect on society throughout history - from the warfare of the Ancient Greeks to the Second Gulf War.

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The MA Degree in Modern History is designed for students particularly interested in the study of the Modern Period, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Swansea has a long history of excellence in the study of modern history, and the expertise of Swansea's modern historians encompasses Welsh, British, European and global history, with specialisms in economic and industrial history, questions of identity and nationality, imperialism, medicine, politics, sexuality, and sport.

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This MA enables candidates to develop their interest in Medieval Studies and explore different disciplinary approaches to key topics within medieval history. Research training includes courses in Medieval Manuscripts; Medieval Latin; and Vernacular Languages including Old and Middle English; Middle Welsh; Old and Middle French; and Middle High German.

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The MA in History offers the opportunity to study a range of historical topics from a broad spread of periods of history. Students who do not wish to specialise in a particular historical period or theme study take core modules that help to equip them to pursue advanced work in history, and select thematic modules from the a wide-range of topics from the Middle Ages onwards.

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The MA in Early Modern History is designed for students who are particularly interested in studying the period of early modern history that runs from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and encompasses the Renaissance, Reformation and Counter Reformation, and Enlightenment. The MA includes core modules to equip students with the skills to pursue advanced work in early modern history, as well as optional modules in subjects such as late medieval history and government, the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and the Reformation and Counter Reformation throughout Britain, Europe, America, or Asia.

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The interdisciplinary MA in Medieval Studies is located within the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, but draws on the expertise of members of staff in different disciplines - History, English, Archaeology, and Celtic Studies - both for core modules and for the more discipline specific modules which form the various pathways. We have a long tradition of specialist teaching in the medieval period at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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The research interests of members of the Department of History in this area range widely, from manufacturers to masculinity. Dr Robin Mackie specialises in business history, and relations between industry and science.

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The course has a specific focus on the academic study of local history with a specific focus on south-west Wales. The main themes cover agrarian development, industrial history, and social, religious and cultural history.

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The History of Mathematics Group conducts internationally recognised work in several areas of the history of modern mathematics, and collaborates with many historians of mathematics in Europe. A long-running interest in celestial mechanics has recently led to an investigation of the network of astronomers in the years around 1900, and an overlapping international project on the role of mathematics and mathematicians in the First World War.

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