Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

Have you always wanted to find out more about your ancestors but don’t know where to start? If so, then this is the ideal course as it will help you to begin building and developing your own family tree from scratch. It is also suitable for those who have already begun to research their family tree but would like to learn more about genealogical records and how to research databases more effectively. 

Delivery Method: Online Learning with tutor support including one full day of in person teaching in The National Libary of Wales, date TBC by the tutor.

This module will introduce the National Library of Wales and its collections to those with an interest in historical research.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support.

Throughout history, women have played a vital role. However, their lives have often been overlooked by their contemporaries and their historians.

Delivery Method: Online learning with tutor support. 

In 1485, Henry Tudor, defeated the English King, Richard I, at Bosworth field. This sets the stage for Wales and its relationships with the rest of the British Isles and the world in the Early Modern era (c. 1485-1815).

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support.

This course gives students the chance to study the history of the family in turbulent twentieth century Britain.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support.

In the early modern period, ‘the family’ was at the centre of politics, economics, and society. Although still under the ideals of early modern patriarchy, the family was flexible, and more complex than may first appear.

Delivery method: In-person sessions in Hugh Owen B21a, Penglais Campus, Wednesdays 7pm to 9pm.

Recent years have seen increasing public and scholarly interest in the fate of many contentious objects that were obtained at the height of the British Empire and which have long been on public display in the museums of the United Kingdom.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

Pre-1858 wills are among the richest and most revealing sources for family and local history research. They offer far more than the distribution of property, providing valuable insights into family relationships, friendships, occupations, social status, religious beliefs and the possessions that shaped everyday life. Wills and related probate records can help uncover the lives of ancestors while revealing the wider communities in which they lived.