He would again be surprised, how-ever, by the form they now take. Attention to structure, style and language remains fundamental, but we are now much more conscious that texts need to be 'contextualized'. There are many ways of reading what is put in front of us. The growing interaction amongst what has in the past been regarded as separate disciplines is a feature of their presentation in Lampeter. The fact too that Lampeter is situated in a part of Wales which is bilingual gives the study of language, culture and society an added dimension and we offer supervision in Welsh language , history and current developments.
Interconnection is thus evident across the board.
What matters is the awareness of its complexity, in any period, and the methods by which we can 'unpack' its development. We can offer the necessary specialist advice. Convenience dictates that historians focus on certain fields, and that is true in Lampeter too, but you can never avoid overlap and interconnection. We have also developed exciting new programmes in Medieval Studies and Australian Studies , for example, and other comparable developments are coming on stream. The Lampeter Scene Our old buildings form the central feature of our landscape.