Dr Steve Thompson BA, PhD(Cymru)
Senior Lecturer
- Senior LecturerDepartment of History and Welsh History - Teaching And Research
Department of History and Welsh History
Postal address
Aberystwyth University
Hugh Owen Building
Penglais
Aberystwyth
Hugh Owen Building
Penglais
Aberystwyth
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

ORCID: 0000-0002-1884-0409
- 2020
- Published
Disability in Industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948
Bohata, K., Jones, A., Mantin, M. & Thompson, S., 10 Jan 2020, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 288 p. (Disability History)Research output: Book/Report › Book
- 2019
- Published
From Paternalism to Industrial Partnership: The Evolution of Industrial Welfare Capitalism in South Wales, c.1840–1939
Thompson, S., 31 Dec 2019, New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History. Miskell, L. (ed.). Cardiff : Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press, p. 103-125 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2017
Disability and the Family in South Wales Coalfield Society, c.1920–1939
Curtis, B. & Thompson, S., 14 Jun 2017, In: Family and Community History. 20, 1, p. 25-44 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2016
‘“This is the country of premature old men”: Ageing and Aged Miners in the South Wales Coalfield, c.1880-1947’
Curtis, B. & Thompson, S., 24 Mar 2016, In: Cultural and Social History. 12, 4, p. 587-606 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2015
- Published
‘The Mixed Economy of Care in the South Wales Coalfield, c.1850-1950’
Thompson, S., 23 Jan 2015, Healthcare in Ireland and Britain from 1850: voluntary, regional and comparative perspectives . Lucey, D. S. & Crossman, V. (eds.). London: Institute of Historical Research, p. 141-60 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- Published
Paying the piper and calling the tune? Complaints against doctors in workers’ medical schemes in the South Wales Coalfield
Thompson, S., 2015, Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine: Historical and Social Science Perspectives. Reinarz, J. & Wynter, R. (eds.). London: Taylor & Francis, p. 93-108 16 p. (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2014
‘A plentiful crop of cripples made by all this progress’: Disability, Artificial Limbs and Working-Class Mutualism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1890-1948’
Thompson, S. & Curtis, B., 2014, In: Social History of Medicine. 27, 4, p. 708-727 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hku009- 2012
- Published
The mixed economy of child welfare and care in industrial South Wales
Thompson, S., 07 Jun 2012, Disabled Children: Contested Caring, c.1850-1979. Borsay, A. & Dale, P. (eds.). Pickering & Chatto, p. 43-57 15 p. (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- Published
The Friendly and Welfare Provision of British Trade Unions: A Case Study of the South Wales Miners' Federation
Thompson, S., 2012, In: Labour History Review. 77, 2, p. 189-210 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
DOI: 10.3828/lhr.2012.12 - 2011
- Published
Varieties of Voluntarism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1880-1948
Thompson, S., 01 Mar 2011, Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action: Historical Perspectives on Current Social Policy. Rochester, C., Gosling, G. C., Penn, A. & Zimmeck, M. (eds.). Sussex Academic Press, p. 82-94 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter