Lucy Allwright

My research explores the conceptualization and meaning of home and homelessness in 1940s England with a particular focus on London. Supervised by Dr Mathew Thomson.

Emily Andrews

"Senility before Alzheimer": Old Age Mental Health in British Medicine, Politics and Culture, 1845-1914. Supervised by Professor Hilary Marland 

Translators of the Welfare State: Boundaries, Knowledge and Intervention in English Social Work, 1936-1970. Supervised by Dr. Mathew Thomson.

Childbirth and midwifery in eighteenth-century London. Supervisors: Professor Hilary Marland and Dr Claudia Stein

Looking at the British approach to independence and the use of the federal framework across the Empire, examining the varying circumstances and 'one size fits all' approach that defines this period. West Indian Federation and move to independence in Caribbean, 1945-1965. Supervised by Professor Gad Heuman.

This study is an exploration of Black-Indian histories and relationships with the focus on the Caribbean and the southern United States. It will look at how the different locations and historical circumstances shaped the creation and identification of different groups and how variations in geography, politics and demographics impacted on the constructions of identity and race. Supervised by Professor Gad Heuman and Dr Tim Lockley.

This thesis is study of Irish social and cultural identity from 1890-1930 concentrating on the ways people engaged with religious and nationalist ideologies. Specifically, the project aims, through a study of sexual cultures in Ireland, to explore the limits of people’s adherence to the moral code of the Catholic Church and the Irish identity constructed by nationalist organisations, and later, the Irish State. It is anticipated that by exploring something as individual, and simultaneously, communally monitored as sexual behaviour that the relationships between the individual, the community and institutions of governance and authority in everyday forms of interaction will be elucidated more clearly than other frameworks of investigation allow.Supervised by Professor Maria Luddy.

Henrietta Ewart

'Without Doors to Open’: The Experience and Construction of the Vagabond in Early Modern England, 1661 – 1744.

Drink and Identity: A Comparative Case Study of Early Modern Bristol and Bordeaux. Supervised by Prof. Beat Kümin and Dr Penny Roberts.

Chronicity in the Twentieth Century: Diabetes in Post-War Britain. Supervised by Dr Roberta Bivins.

Tara Morton

I am currently researching the political, societal, artistic and familial connections of those artists involved with the suffrage atelier: an artists group founded in 1909 with the aim of furthering the women’s suffrage cause. Supervised by Dr Sarah Richardson

Shadow worlds and “superstitions”: an analysis of Martha Warren Beckwith’s writings on Jamaican folk religion, 1919-1929. Supervised by Professor Gad Heuman and Dr Tim Lockley.

St. Elizabeth's Women of Colour: Kinship Ties, Property and Slavery Compensation in Jamaica, 1750-1840. Supervised by Prof Trevor Burnard and Dr John Gilmore.

Laura Branch

James Brown

Helen Cowie

My research explores the development of natural history in the Spanish Empire (1750-1850). I explore why the Spanish Crown promoted scientific institutions and expeditions and how naturalists fashioned a distinct professional identity for themselves in the Hispanic world. Supervised by Professor Anthony McFarlane and Dr Rebecca Earle

Sarah Easterby-Smith

My PhD research places the practices surrounding natural history collecting in Britain and France, 1750-1800, within their social and cultural contexts. I am particularly interested in the way that participation in the ‘scientific’ study of nature was connected to the wider expansion of consumption between 1750-1800. Supervised by Professor Maxine Berg.

Frank Eissa-Barroso

My research aims at understanding how viceregal political culture and mechanisms transformed during the Bourbon era in the Spanish world. I am therefore interested on how the central authorities of the Catholic Monarchy understood the function of and interacted with the viceroys appointed to peripheral areas of the empire. I am also concerned with how viceregal authority was perceived and dealt with by those subjects directly under viceregal rule. Supervised by Dr Guy Thomson and Professor Anthony McFarlane.

Kat Foxhall

Broadly my work explores ideas about disease within the context of sea voyages. My research draws on trends in the History of Medicine, as well as the History of British Empire, British, maritime, emigration and Australian history 1800-1880. Supervised by Professor Margot Finn and Dr Sarah Hodges.

Lone motherhood in England, 1945 - 1990. Supervised by Dr Mathew Thomson.

My research focuses on the Indian Workers’ Association (IWA) as a political, cultural and social organisation and the local context in which it operated. Supervised by Professor Carolyn Steedman.

My research interests are centred on Alehouse Sociability in Early Modern England. Supervised by Professor Steve Hindle.

Eighteenth century and material culture. Supervised by Professor Maxine Berg.

Jessica Legnini

American Blackface Minstrelsy and Its British Audiences, 1843-1847

Judith Lockhart

My research interest lies in women’s health, particularly their sexual and reproductive health. My aim is to produce a history of the medical care and treatment of women that strikes a balance between progressive accounts by historians celebrating the advance of medical science and the feminist notion that it can all be explained by the social construction of gender. Supervised by Professor Hilary Marland.

Sergio Lussana

Martine Marchal

Thomas Whythorne and Tudor Musicians. Supervised by Professor Peter Marshall and Professor Bernard Capp.

I am interested in merging medical history and the history of childhood, to examine the medical process surrounding childhood illness, and the subsequent effect instruments, institutions and education had on that process. Supervised by Professor Colin Jones and Professor Hilary Marland.

Lydia Plath

This project will attempt to explore the identities of urban midwives in Germany from the end of the 16^th century up until the introduction of widespread institutionalized maternal and infant care in the late 18^th century. Supervised by Professor Hilary Marland and Dr Claudia Stein.

William Rupp

Through a detailed exploration of the Hon. John Byng’s (1742-1813) personal world, I hope to gain insight into how the broad and important changes that were taking place in England (industrialization, agricultural reform, the French Revolution, to name but three) affected life and folkways outside of London. Supervised by Professor Margot Finn.

Laura Sangha

Joydeep Sen 

My research interests are centred on astronomy in nineteenth-century India. Supervised by Professor David Arnold.

Kate Smith

Stephen Soanes

Rest and Restitution: Convalescence and the Public Mental Hospital in England, 1919-39: My PhD research explores the place of convalescence in English public mental hospitals during the interwar period. It focuses particularly on the architectural and locational history of a classification defined by its transience, and liminality. As such, my work aims to consider where the borderland of convalescence was felt to 'belong', in relation to mental hospitals, the voluntary sector, the family home, and the workplace. Supervised by Dr Mathew Thomson and Professor Hilary Marland.

Deborah Toner

My doctoral research explores the thematic use of alcohol in Mexican literature as part of a discourse creating national identity during the 19^th century. Supervised by Dr Rebecca Earle.

James Tucker

'Reformed': Protestants outside France in Jean Crespin's martyrologies. Supervised by Dr Penny Roberts.

Nik Unger

My research investigates the development of modern Austrian identity from 1866 to the present day. More specifically, I look at the way contemporary Austrian identity discourse regards its pre-1938 past, especially the emergence of a distinct Austrian identity separate from Germany and embryonic ideas of European wide cultural unity in the thought of two prominent Austrian German writers and thinkers, Hermann Bahr and Stefan Zweig, before National Socialism. Supervised by Professor Robin Okey.

Brodie Waddell

I am currently trying to sketch out the tangled connections between popular culture and plebeian social protest in Britain, c. 1660-1720. By studying these relationships, I hope to contribute to the larger academic effort of mapping the historical spaces where the ‘cultural’, ‘social’ and ‘political’ meet. Supervised by Professor Steve Hindle.

Jonathan Willis

Meaningful consideration of the role of the Church music in state and popular religious cultures and identities is palpably lacking. It is the author’s belief that a sustained and analytical study of religio-musical practices in Elizabethan England will contribute to our understanding of the historical processes which shaped the English Reformation as a whole, and by which the English Reformation in turn both shaped and was shaped by the English people. Supervised by Professor Peter Marshall.

Young Hwi Yoon

The Impact of the Transatlantic Evangelical Network on Abolitionism in Anglo-American Politics. Supervised by Dr Tim Lockley and Dr Sarah Richardson.