Students Take both double modules.
The aim of the course is to introduce you to the themes, materials, personalities and historiography of Wales in the period between the arrival of the Normans and the late eighteenth century. Industrialisation, largely taking place in South Wales, fundamentally reordered Welsh society and economy. A considerable volume of internal migration was followed by substantial immigration, creating a new and contested linguistic and national identity. Wales acquired a reputation for political radicalism which has been nurtured well into the twentieth century. The Welsh experience has been interpreted through fiction, poetry and film.