阿伯里斯特威斯（Aberystwyth）拥有英国大多数大学所无法比拟的研究设施，该镇拥有丰富的书籍和手稿资源，极大地增强了阿伯里斯特威斯（Aberystwyth）对历史学家的吸引力。阿伯里斯特威斯大学的历史和威尔士历史系在创新和国际认可的研究方面享有盛誉，并热衷于招募有进取心和创造力的研究生来攻读博士学位和哲学博士学位。阿伯斯威斯（Aberystwyth）拥有欧洲最好的图书馆资源，并包含中世纪，近代早期和现代时期的丰富原始资料。该大学的休·欧文图书馆（Hugh Owen Library）藏书超过700,0
Aberystwyth boasts research facilities unparalleled at most UK universities and the town’s outstanding resources in books and manuscripts greatly enhance Aberystwyth’s appeal to the historian. The Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University has a well-established reputation for innovative and internationally recognised research, and is keen to recruit enterprising and imaginative graduate students to read for PhD and MPhil degrees. Aberystwyth boasts library resources amongst the best in Europe and contains expansive source material for the medieval, early modern and modern periods. The university’s Hugh Owen Library houses more than 700,000 volumes, a number of unique research collections, and subscribes to more than 3,500 current periodicals. The Hugh Owen Library is also one of only two designated European Documentation Centres in Wales and contains considerable resources for historians interested in the USA.