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Dr Stephanie Ward 


Dr Stephanie Ward
Position:Lecturer in Modern Welsh History

Telephone:+44(0)029 208 75277
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74929
Extension:75277
Location:John Percival Building, Room 4.28

Research Interests

  • Economic and social history of modern Wales
  • Comparative and regional histories of Britain
  • Unemployment, social policy, social and political movements with particular reference to the economic depression of the 1930s in Britain
  • Gender history including studies of masculinity, marriage, family and identity in twentieth century Britain

Selected Publications

Unemployment and the State in the Depression: The Means Test and Protest in 1930s Britain (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).

‘“The Workers Are in the Mood to Fight the Act”: Protest Against the Means Test 1932-5’, in Matt Perry and Matthias Reiss (eds), Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention (Oxford University Press, 2011).

‘The Means Test and the Unemployed in South Wales and the North-East of England, 1931-39’, Labour History Review, No. 1, Vol. 73 (April, 2008), pp. 113-32.

Teaching

Year One

Modern Wales - 20 credits (HS1104)

 

History in Practice: Fury, Folly and Footnotes (HS1107)

Year Two

From King Coal to Col Cymru: Society and Culture in Wales, 1939 – 2000 – 30 credits (HS1756)

Exploring Historical Debate – 30 credits (HS1711)

Year Three

Class, Protest and Politics: South Wales, 1918-39 - 30 credits (HS1868)

 

Dissertation - 30 credits (HS1801)

 

MA

Twentieth-Century Wales: Economy, Politics and Society - 20 credits (HST887)

Historiographical Study I: Key themes - 10 credits (HST698)

 

Historiographical Study II: Key debates - 10 credits (HST699)