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Theses Completed 2007
Philosophy of History Philosophy of History Derrida, postmodernism and the end of history. Sally Hart. (Professor Keith W. Jenkins.) Chichester M.Phil. 2007 Historical Methods Family history in England, c.1945–2006: culture, identity and (im)mortality. Simon Titley-Bayes. (Dr. Mark S.R. Jenner.) York Ph.D. 2007 Historiography The representation of women, warfare and power in Greek historiography, 400–1 B.C. Vassilis Vassiliu. Exeter Ph.D. 2006 The Pax Romana, Britannica and Americana: a conceptual and historiographical study. Ali Parchami. (Dr. John G. Darwin.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Interpreting Abu Bakar, the ruler of Johor (1862–95): the reconstruction of selected issues in the existing historical writings. Abdul Rahman bin Tang Abdullah. (Professor Ian G. Brown.) London Ph.D. 2007 The production of history: historians, publishers and the transfer of knowledge in Britain, 1895–1980. Paul Churchill. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 E.H. Carr‘s sense of crisis in an age of crisis. Satoshi Okayasu. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 The role of history in the recent Mexican novel: a study of five historical novels by Elena Garro, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso, Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Rosa Beltrán. Laura Rafael. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 Manufacturing the past: collective memory and the commodification of history as popular culture on British television. Robert Dillon. (Professor Jeffrey M. Richards.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2007 Ancient history Egypt Travel to and in Egypt from the 4th to the 7th century A.D.: the evidence from hagiography. Chrisi Kotsifou. London Ph.D. 2006 Greece and Mediterranean Athenian taxation from the Pisistratids to Lycurgus, 550–325 B.C. Peter W. Fawcett. (Professor P.J. Rhodes.) Durham Ph.D. 2007 Ancient Rome and the empire South Italic military equipment: the cultural and military significance of the warrior‘s panoply from the 5th to the 3rd centuries B.C. Michael Burns. London Ph.D. 2006 Livy‘s battle descriptions and the nature of Roman mid-Republican heavy infantry combat. Sam Koon. (Dr. Andrew Fear.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 Roman cargoes: underwater evidence from the eastern Mediterranean. E. Julia Strauss. (Professor Michael H. Crawford.) London Ph.D. 2007 Alienation and rebellion in Roman Italy, 79–60 B.C. Ian Harrison. (Dr. Mary Beagon.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 Sex, statistics and soldiers: new approaches to the demography of Roman Egypt, 28 B.C.-259 A.D. April Pudsey. (Professor Tim Parkin.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 Early and Roman Britain The sacred landscape of Ireland. Penelope A. Pollard. Belfast Ph.D. 2006 Domestic space in Atlantic Scotland, 1800 B.C.-A.D. 1000. Caroline Russell. Belfast Ph.D. 2006 Change and continuity: a study in the historic landscape of Devon. Lucy Ryder. Exeter Ph.D. 2006 Cavalry in Britain: their use and deployment from A.D. 43 to the 3rd century. Timothy M. Slater. Exeter M.Phil. 2006 Architecture, economics and identity in Romano-British ‘small towns‘. Thomas C. Rust. Leicester Ph.D. 2006 Medieval Europe General and continental Social origins of dynastic and elective kingship: a study of the Frankish and Visigothic successions. John M. Widdowson. London Ph.D. 2007 The family in the ‘Islendingasögur‘: myth or reality. Emily Archer. (Dr. Stephen D. Church.) East Anglia Ph.D. 2006 Constructions of female sanctity in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse religious prose. Miranda J. Hodgson. (Dr. Heather O‘Donoghue and Dr. Helen Barr.) Oxford M.Litt. 2006 Texts and contexts: women‘s dedicated life from Caesarius to Benedict. Lindsay Rudge. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 Social conflict and its management in the 6th century, with special reference to the reign of Justinian I. P.N. Bell. (Dr. Mark Whittow.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Procopius and the Gothic War. Maria Kouroúmali. (Dr. James D. Howard-Johnston.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Chronicles of Isidore of Seville. Jamie P. Wood. (Dr. Andrew Fear.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 The Norse in Islay: a settlement historical case-study for medieval Scandinavian activity in western maritime Scotland. Alan J. MacNiven. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 Hiberno-Saxon and Hiberno-Scandinavian contact in the west of the Northumbrian kingdom: a focus on the church. Fiona L. Edmonds. (Dr. W. John Blair and Professor Thomas M.O. Charles-Edwards.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Hagiography and the cult of saints in the diocese of Liège, c.700–980. Matthew Zimmern. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 Pathways of power in late Carolingian Catalonia. Jonathan A. Jarrett. London Ph.D. 2006 Making middle Byzantine Constantinople: imperial devotional sites and ideology from Basil I to John II Komnenos. Giulia Zulian. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 A new comparative approach to the Byzantine economy, A.D. 900–1200. Costas Kaplanis. London Ph.D. 2006 The church and communities: Cluny and its local patrons, 900–1050. Sarah E. Halton. Birmingham Ph.D. 2006 Norman ethnicity in Normandy and Italy, c.911–c.1204. S. Ewan Johnson. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 A study of Byzantine sgraffito wares (11th-13th century): classification, production, circulation, and art historical analysis. Johanna Dimopoulos. (Dr. Marlia C.M. Mango.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Magna turris: a study of the development, planning and use of social space in donjons of the 11th and 12th centuries located in the geographical territories of the Norman and Angevin kings of England. Pamela E. Marshall. Nottingham Ph.D. 2006 Byzantine astrology in the 11th century. Andrew Vladimirou. Birmingham Ph.D. 2006 Norman and Anglo-Norman participation in the Iberian reconquista, c.1018–c.1248 Lucas Villegas-Aristizabal. (Dr. Claire Taylor.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2007 Authority and pedagogy in Hermann of Reichenau‘s De octo vitiis principalibus. Hannah Williams. (Dr. Conrad Leyser.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 Canon law and the letters of Ivo of Chartres. Christof Rolker. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 An analysis of the correspondence and hagiographical works of Philip of Harvengt. Lynsey E. Robertson. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 The principles of peacemaking in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. J.E.M. Benham. East Anglia Ph.D. 2006 Pastoral care of prostitutes in Paris, c.1180–c.1250. Keiko R.A. Nowacka. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Music in the arts faculty of Paris in the 13th and early 14th centuries Gilles Rico. (Dr. Margaret Bent and Dr. Cecilia Trifogli.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The myth of minority: cultural change in Valencia in the 13th century at the time of the conquests of James I of Aragon. Ben Eckersley. St. Andrews M.Phil. 2007 Seville: between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1248–1492 – pre-Columbus commercial routes from and to Seville. Dan Manuel Serradilla Avery. St. Andrews M.Phil. 2007 Byzantine textbooks of the Palæologan period (13th-15th century). Fevronia Nousia. (Ms. Julian Chrysostomides.) London Ph.D. 2007 The stone carvings of Chios as a feature of social distinction: an approach to the transition from nobility of birth to nobility of wealth (14th-19th centuries). Ioanna N. Koukounis. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 The sacristy in Renaissance Venice. Lydia K. Hamlett. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Bruno Von Rappoltstein: power relationships in later medieval Alsace. Geoffrey P. Carter. (Dr. Len E. Scales and Dr. Giles Gasper.) Durham M.A. 2008 ‘Shame on him who allows them to live‘: the Jacquerie of 1358. Douglas Aiton. (Professor Samuel K. Cohn and Dr. Graeme Small.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2007 Music in court and capital in late 14th-century Paris. Christina Story. London Ph.D. 2007 Pandolfo Petrucci: politics and patronage in Renaissance Siena. Philippa Jackson. (Professors Charles A. Hope and C. Nicholas J. Mann.) London Ph.D. 2007 King Manuel I and the end of religious pluralism in Portugal (1496–7). François J.F. Soyer. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 British Isles Growth of Newcastle ‘villages‘. Jennifer Morrison. (Dr. Chris Gerrard and Dr. Pam Graves.) Durham M.A. 2007 A study of the early recorded place-names of the south Cumbria area. Linda M. Corrigan. (Dr. Alexander R. Rumble.) Manchester Ph.D. 2006 The conversion of East Anglia: an archaeological perspective. Richard Hoggett. (Professor Tom M. Williamson.) East Anglia Ph.D. 2007 Minsters, estates and parish boundaries: the churches, settlements and archaeology of early medieval Norfolk. Matthew Godfrey. Leicester Ph.D. 2007 Land, property and power in Anglo-Saxon England, c.600–c.800. Martin Ryan. (Professor Nicholas Higham.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 Roman influences in Anglo-Saxon Britain. Erin T. Dailey. (Professor Ian N. Wood.) Leeds M.A. 2007 The persistence of memory: a contextual landscape study of the early Christian churches of Argyll, Scotland. Megan E. Meredith-Lobay. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Social exclusion from early medieval Wessex. Martha Riddiford. (Professor Sarah R.I. Foot and Dr. Simon T. Loseby.) Sheffield Ph.D. 2007 The Mercian polity, 716–918. Alex Burghart. (Professor Dame Janet L. Nelson.) London Ph.D. 2007 The organisation of public work in society and by the state in early medieval England, c.800–c.1300. Andrew Bell. (Professor James Campbell.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Dynastic strategies and regional loyalties: Wessex, Mercia and Kent, 802–939. Geoff Little. (Professor Sarah Foot.) Sheffield Ph.D. 2007 The origins and early development of the parochial system in the Orkney earldom. Sarah J. Gibbon. Open University Ph.D. 2006 England‘s hermits, 970–1220. Tom O. Licence. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 Health and disease in medieval and Tudor Norwich. Isla Fay. (Professor Carole Rawcliffe.) East Anglia Ph.D. 2007 Orderic Vitalis and Norman society, c.1035–1087. James Bickford Smith. Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The Norman conquest and settlement of Sussex, 1066–1100. Kate Lewis. (Dr. Richard Eales.) Kent M.A. 2007 The ‘De Obitu Willelmi‘ and the Anglo-Norman succession of 1087. Katherine J. Lack. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 The book collections of Llanthony priory from foundation until dissolution (c.1100–1538). Kirsty Bennett. (Dr. Richard Gameson.) Kent Ph.D. 2007 Medieval London: the development of a civic political community, c.1100–1300. John McEwan. (Professor Caroline M. Barron.) London Ph.D. 2007 Money lending in 12th-century England. Hazel Gray. (Professor David A. Carpenter.) London Ph.D. 2007 The life and career of Bishop Bernard of St. David‘s (1100–48). Edward Knight. (Mr. Ifor W. Rowlands.) Wales Ph.D. 2007 The Dover Bible. Annette Tomlin. (Dr. Richard Gameson.) Kent M.Phil. 2007 The Augustinian canons and their benefactors in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Andrew Abram. (Dr. Janet E. Burton.) Wales Ph.D. 2007 Family, lordship and service – the Courcys in the 11th and 12th centuries. Steve Flanders. (Professor Marie Therese Flanagan.) Belfast Ph.D. 2005 King John‘s piety, c.1199–c.1216. Paul Webster. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 ‘Dyvers kyndes of religion in sondry partes of the Ilande‘: the geography of pastoral care in 13th-century England. William Hopkins Campbell. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 Rebellion and dissent in the Angevin lordship of Ireland during the reign of Henry III (1216–72). Roger McCance. (Professor Marie Therese Flanagan.) Belfast Ph.D. 2007 Hinton priory and its impact on the locality. Margaret Dodge. Bristol M.Phil. 2006 Lordship, land and clergy: social stability and change in the palatinate of Durham, c.1286–1346. Jonathan P. Boniface. (Professor Michael C. Prestwich.) Durham Ph.D. 2007 An edition of Aberystwyth NLW MS. Peniarth 164. (Golygiad o Lawysgrif Peniarth 164 (H) o Cyfraith Hywel Dda.) Angharad Elias. (Professor A. Huw Pryce.) Wales Ph.D. 2007 Parliament and political culture in early 14th-century England. Phillip J. Bradford. (Professor W. Mark Ormrod.) York Ph.D. 2007 The household knights of Edward II. Alistair Tebbit. Bristol Ph.D. 2006 Thomas of Brotherton, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England: a study in early 14th-century aristocracy. Alison F. Marshall. Bristol Ph.D. 2006 The Regimen Sanitatis and its dissemination in England, c.1348–1550. Christopher A. Bonfield. East Anglia Ph.D. 2006 Joan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock: royal kinship and marriage in the 14th century. Penelope Lawne. (Professor Nigel E. Saul.) London Ph.D. 2007 Religious women and their communities in late medieval Scotland. Kimberly A. Curran. (Dr. Dauvit E. Broun and Dr. Marilyn Dunn.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2007 A social archaeology of the late medieval English peasantry: power, community and gender. Sally V. Smith. Sheffield Ph.D. 2006 Richmondshire, 1372–1425. Melaine J. Devine. Teesside Ph.D. 2006 The great missal of Abbot Nicholas de Litlyngton. Douglas East. (Dr. Herbert Eiden.) Essex Ph.D. 2007 Peasant society in a Midlands manor, 1400–1600. Matthew Tompkins. (Professor Christopher C. Dyer.) Leicester Ph.D. 2007 Church reform ideas and practices in 15th-century England: with special reference to Reginald Pecock, Thomas Gascoigne and college foundations. Jong W. Choi. Birmingham Ph.D. 2006 The medieval hall houses of north and east Wales: a socio-political development arising out of changes in land-holding practice and the Glyndwr revolts? E.M. Green. Nottingham Ph.D. 2006 Dives and pauper and an ‘aesthetics of response‘: readings of devotional practice in 15th-century England. Emilie J. Vince. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 The origins and production of the Findern Manuscript (Cambridge, University Library, MS. FF.1.6). Anna E. Gottschall. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 Modern Europe General Republic of saints: republican myth and religious reform – Venice-Poland, 1509–1609. Joanna M. Kostylo. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 The Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and its mission to Germany and Austro-Hungary, 1859–97. H. Wright. Brunel Ph.D. 2006 The classical gold standard in the European periphery: a case study of Austria-Hungary and Italy, 1870–1913. Ingo M. Morys. London Ph.D. 2006 Regime changes, public memory and the pursuit of justice: the case of German-speaking Jews in Bukovina, 1920–60. Petru Weber. Sussex D.Phil. 2006 Greece, Balkan games and Balkan politics in the inter-war years, 1929–39. Penelope Kissoudi. De Montfort Ph.D. 2006 A comparison of youth policies in Vichy France and Nazi Germany. Victoria L. Harrison. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 The economic exploitation of the Generalgouvernement in Poland by the Third Reich, 1939–45. Sonja Schwaneberg. (Professor Anthony J. Nicholls.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Soviet policy towards Turkey, 1944–6. El‘vis Beytullayev. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 Estonia‘s Russian-speaking population, 1987–2005: origins, identity transformation and the European Union. Michael Zdanowski. (Professor Simon M. Dixon and Dr. James R. Harris.) Leeds Ph.D. 2007 Baltic states Historical culture, conflicting memories and identities in post-Soviet Estonia. Meike Wulf. London Ph.D. 2006 Bulgaria A history of Bulgaria‘s environmental movement. Matthew S. Tejada. (Professor Richard J. Crampton.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 France Developing French Protestant identity: the political and religious writings of Antoine de Chandieu (1534–91). S.K. Barker. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 The French Renaissance château interior: furniture, religious objects and book ownership. Sophia E. Ogilvie Pickford. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 From a cough to a coffin: the child‘s medical encounter in England and France, 1762–1882. Lisa Petermann. (Professors Colin D.N. Jones and Hilary Marland.) Warwick Ph.D. 2007 Monarchy, republic and empire: Irish public opinion and France, c.1787–1804. Ultán Gillen. (Professor Robert F. (Roy) Foster.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The female religious communities of Paris during the French Revolution and First Empire, 1789–1815. Gemma M. Betros. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Dying for home: the medicine and politics of nostalgia in 19th-century France. Lisa G. O‘Sullivan. London Ph.D. 2006 Nature and reason: childhood and insanity in Britain and France, 1800–60. Cathy Havell. (Professor Howard Caygill.) London M.Phil. 2007 Adoptive kinship and the British League of Help: commemoration of the Great War through the adoption of French communities. Bryan Lewis. (Professor Nicholas J. Atkin and Dr. Nicola J. Verdon.) Reading Ph.D. 2007 Centrists in central France: the Radical Party in the Corrèze, 1919–39. Aidan T. Van De Weyer. London Ph.D. 2007 War on the land: an environmental history of the Second World War and its aftermath in south-eastern France, 1939–45. Chris Pearson. Bristol Ph.D. 2006 The ethic, phenomenology and diagnostic of post-war French psychiatry. Davi Reggio. (Professor Howard Caygill.) London Ph.D. 2007 Comparative migrant entitlement regimes: Britain and France. Eleanor Passmore. (Professor Andrew S. Thompson.) Leeds M.A. 2007 Luce Irigaray. Jane Jones. (Professor Howard Caygill.) London M.Phil. 2007 Untying the Gaullian knot: France and the struggle to overcome the Cold War order, 1963–8. Garret J. Martin. London Ph.D. 2006 Germany Print and the knowledge of God: the development of a spiritualist epistemology in the early German Reformation. Paul Brand. (Dr. William J. Shiels.) York Ph.D. 2007 Christian Thomasius (1655–1728): reform and education. Ursula Führer. Kingston M.Res. 2006 The making of middle-class cultural identity: a comparative history of Leipzig‘s Gewandhaus and Birmingham‘s Triennial Festival, c.1780–1914. Antje K. Pieper. Birmingham Ph.D. 2006 Science, identity and urban reinvention in a mercantile city-state: the associational culture of 19th-century Frankfurt am Main. Ayako Sakurai. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 Love ye the stranger: public and private assistance to the German poor in 19th century London. Christiane Swinbank. (Dr. David Stack.) Reading Ph.D. 2007 ‘Was ist deutsche?‘ Musical solutions to problems of national identity, 1848–c.1900. Barbara Eichner. (Dr. Roger Allen.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Pastoral care and anti-semitism: Paul Althaus, political theology and the Christian Volksgemeinschaft, 1888–1966. Tanja Hetzer. (Dr. Raphael Gross.) Sussex D.Phil. 2007 British views on Kaiser Wilhelm II and their impact on Anglo-German relations. Stephen Knott. (Professor Keith M. Wilson.) Leeds M.A. 2007 A German education: Otto Abetz, 1903–33. Matthew J. Peaple. (Professor Nicholas J. Atkin.) Reading Ph.D. 2007 Creative impulses-creative pauses: Nietzsche and the expressive dance of Mary Wigman. Carole Kew. (Professors Howard Caygill and Helen Thomas.) London Ph.D. 2007 Slaughter or sacrifice? The religious rhetoric of blood sacrifice in the British and German armies, 1914–19. Patrick Porter. (Dr. Adrian M. Gregory.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The attitude of the Church of England towards Nazism and the German Church struggle, 1933–4. N.S. Blain. Wales Ph.D. 2006 ‘In quiet remembrance?‘ The Allied air war and urban memory cultures, 1940–95 – Kassel and Magdeburg in comparative perspective. Joerg Arnold. (Dr. Neil Gregor.) Southampton Ph.D. 2007 German prisoners of war in Britain, 1940–8: policy and performance. Gillian S. Clarke. (Dr. Jill J. Lewis.) Wales Ph.D. 2007 Some aspects of relations between the two German states, 1951–67. Maximilian N. Horster. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Greece The Athenian press on the Asia Minor campaign and disaster, 1919–22. Georgia Eglezou. Birmingham Ph.D. 2006 The U.N.R.R.A. mission to Greece: the politics of international relief, October 1944–June 1947. Flora Tsilaga. (Dr. Philip J. Carabott.) London Ph.D. 2007 The second wave of the women‘s movement in Greece, 1974–90: struggle and discontents. Anastasia Frantzeskaki. Essex Ph.D. 2006 Representations of history in Greek upper secondary education with special reference to understandings of interculturality. Ekaterini Daniil. London Ph.D. 2007 Italy British travellers and the rediscovery of Sicily: 16th–19th centuries. Lydia Davis. Southampton Solent Ph.D. 2006 The ‘guidebooks‘ of Rome, 1510–1638. Hilary A. Hunt. London M.Phil. 2006 The making of a pope: how Mauro Cappellari became pope Gregory XVI (1765–1831). Christopher Korten. (Dr. David S. Laven and Professor Robert J.W. Evans.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Condemned pasts: a topography of memory for Le Nuove prison, Turin. Eleanor Canright Chiari. London Ph.D. 2006 Alfredo Casella and Italian fascism. Francesco Parrino. London Ph.D. 2007 The history of the Vatican media, 1920–43, within the development of the Italian media. Livia Bornigia. (Professor Nicholas J. Cull.) Leicester Ph.D. 2007 Opera houses and cultural policy since 1945: a comparative study of La Scala, Milan and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Paola Merli. (Professor Jeff Hill.) De Montfort Ph.D. 2007 The Action Party and the diaspora of the Actionists in post-war Italy. Amy K. Rosenthal. (Professor Donald Sassoon.) London Ph.D. 2007 Mediterranean and Islands The rise of nationalism in Cyprus during 1878–1921 and the role of schoolmaster Nikolaos Katalanos. Margarita Lagou. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 The moneyed class of Gibraltar, c.1880–1939. Chris Grocott. (Professor R. Martin Blinkhorn and Dr. Stephen Constantine.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2007 A porous frontier: Gibraltar and its Spanish hinterland, c.1923–1954 Gareth Stockey. (Professor R. Martin Blinkhorn and Dr. Stephen Constantine.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2007 The Netherlands The phoenix from the ashes: Orangism in word and image, 1650–75. Jillian D. Stern. London Ph.D. 2007 Norway The British and Norwegian Labour parties in the inter-war period, with particular reference to 1929–36: electoral prospects. David Aly Redvaldsen. (Dr. Mary Hilson and Professor Kathleen Burk.) London Ph.D. 2007 The relationship between the British and Norwegian Labour parties, 1945–51. Tony Insall. (Dr. Joe Maiolo.) London Ph.D. 2007 Poland Rosa Luxemburg, national economic thought, and the problem of industrial development in the kingdom of Poland, 1896–1915. Arek J. Kizilbash. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Polish-Jewish relations during the rebirth of Poland, November 1918–June 28, 1919. David B. Kaufman. (Professor Robert B. McKean, Professor A. Polansky and Dr. Michael G. Rapport.) Stirling Ph.D. 2007 Writing histories: narratives of integration of Poles in Great Britain since the Second World War. Lisa Blenkinsop. (Dr. Stephen Constantine and Dr. Corinna Peniston-Bird.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2007 Portugal The English College at Lisbon, 1622–1756: a missionary college from the Reformation to the Age of Enlightenment. Simon P. Johnson. (Dr. William J. Shiels.) York Ph.D. 2007 The clarinet in Portugal from its advent to the mid 19th century: composers, performers, repertoire. Luis M. Gonçalves da Silva. Sheffield Ph.D. 2006 Continuity and change in three decades of Portuguese musical life, 1870–1900. Maria José Artiaga. London Ph.D. 2007 Romania The leader cult in communist Romania, 1965–89: constructing Ceausescu‘s uniqueness in painting. Alice C.R. Mocanescu. (Dr. Sarah R. Davies.) Durham Ph.D. 2007 Russia and the Soviet Union The culture of Russian and Soviet diplomacy, Lamsdorf to Litvinov, 1900–39. Alastair M. Kocho-Williams. (Professor Peter W. Gatrell.) Manchester Ph.D. 2006 Atheism and Islam in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan under Soviet rule: Western and Soviet perspectives. M.A. Karim. (Dr. Mark A. Sandle.) De Montfort M.Phil. 2007 Anglo-Soviet relations, 1924–5: political struggles for the recognition of the Soviet trade unions and the establishment of the Anglo-Russian Joint Advisory Council. Dmitriy Ashton. (Dr. George Conyne.) Kent M.A. 2007 Spain Astronomy and astrophysics in Spain, 1850–1914. Pedro Ruiz Castell. (Dr. Stephen Johnston and Professor Victor Navarro-Brotóns.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The civil guard and the Second Spanish Republic, 1931. Gerald Blaney. (Professor Paul Preston.) London Ph.D. 2007 The defence of Madrid: the Spanish Communist Party in the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). Amanda M. Spencer. Sheffield Ph.D. 2006 Sweden The just war in theory and practice: legitimations of Sweden‘s conflicts during the Great Power period. Pärtel Piirimäe. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Switzerland A contextual study of Benjamin Constant‘s interest in polytheism and theism (1776–1806). Catherine Carpenter. (Dr. Richard D. Whatmore.) Sussex D.Phil. 2007 Modern Britain and Ireland Long periods Family identity and the Irish ascendancy gentry: the Saundersons of Castle Saunderson, 1613–1914. Devon M. McHugh. Edinburgh M.Phil. 2006 From 1500 Brickmaking and brick building in Staffordshire, 1500–1760. Michael J. Kingman. Keele Ph.D. 2006 Clerical masculinity and the turmoil of early modern England. Patricia Tate. (Dr. Alison Rowlands.) Essex M.Phil. 2007 ‘Plenti and grase‘: food and drink in a 16th-century gentry household. Mark Dawson. (Dr. Joyce M. Ellis.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2007 Sixteenth-century Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Gwendolynn Heley. (Dr. Chris Gerrard.) Durham Ph.D. 2007 William Fitzwilliam, earl of Southampton, 1490–1542: a thematic study. Ian G. Helps. (Professor G.W. Bernard.) Southampton Ph.D. 2007 Local engagement with the early English Reformation: Oxfordshire, 1520–70. Katherine Halliday. (Dr. Christopher A. Haigh.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Armed conflict and border society: the east and middle Marches, 1536–60. Jeffrey M. Becker. (Professor Christopher W. Brooks.) Durham Ph.D. 2007 The impact of the Counter-Reformation on the political thinking of Irish Catholics, c.1540–c.1640. Michael D. Finnegan. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Secretaries, statesmen and spies: the clerks of the Tudor Privy Council, c.1540–c.1603. Jacqueline D. Vaughan. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 Protestants, prisoners and the Marian persecution. Megan L. Wheeler. (Dr. Christopher A. Haigh.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The politics of defamation in the reign of Elizabeth I. Heather J. Thomas. (Miss Nia M.W. Powell.) Wales M.Phil. 2007 The negotiation and fashioning of female honour in early modern London, 1560–1690. Tim Reinke-Williams. (Professor Bernard S. Capp.) Warwick Ph.D. 2007 Studies in the early Elizabethan life and works of Henry Howard, later earl of Northampton, 1540–1614. Daniel Andersson. (Professor Jill A. Kraye.) London Ph.D. 2007 Music and power at the English court, 1575–1624. Susan L. Anderson. Leeds Ph.D. 2006 John Whitson (c.1557–1629): ‘the best type of merchant‘? David W. Jones. Bristol M.Phil. 2006 From 1600 The politics of custom: the identity of participants in 17th-century enclosure riots. Heather Falvey. (Professor Steve Hindle.) Warwick Ph.D. 2007 Medical recipe collections in 17th-century England: knowledge, text and gender. Elaine Y.T. Leong. (Dr. Margaret Pelling.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The court culture of James I: music and ceremony in early 17th-century London. Myfanwy Walters. London Ph.D. 2006 The episcopate of the Church of Ireland, 1603–60. Elizabeth Rickett. (Professor Mary O‘Dowd.) Belfast Ph.D. 2007 Conflict and the corporation: York, 1603–40. Michael J. Rice. (Dr. Mark S.R. Jenner.) York M.A. 2007 Sir Roger Twysden, 1597–1672: a re-appraisal of his life and writings. Sue Petrie. (Professor Kenneth Fincham.) Kent Ph.D. 2007 The Book of Sports and the politics of sabbatarianism in Tudor and Stuart England. Alistair R. Dougall. (Professor Mark J. Stoyle.) Southampton Ph.D. 2007 Lord lieutenancy of Cambridgeshire under Charles I, 1625–40. Bryan N. Mann. (Dr. Nigel R. Aston.) Leicester Ph.D. 2007 The political and cultural worlds of William Blundell (1620–98): a 17th-century English Catholic gentleman. Geoff Baker. (Professor Ann Hughes and Dr. Christopher Harrison.) Keele Ph.D. 2007 A comparative study of massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641–53. Inga Volmer. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 ‘Be valiant and fight the Lords battells‘: sacred texts for soldiers during the English Civil Wars. Ying-Chien Wang. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Marriage in Scotland, 1650–1850. Katie Barclay. (Professors Eleanor J. Gordon and Lynn C. Abrams.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2007 Untold histories: black people in England and Wales, 1660–1812. Kathleen Chater. (Professor David Killingray.) London Ph.D. 2007 Material culture in early modern Yorkshire: the role of goods in the creation of social identities in three Yorkshire communities, 1660–1780. Eleanor Love. (Dr. Mark S.R. Jenner.) York Ph.D. 2007 Church monuments of Devon and Cornwall, c.1660–c.1730. Clive J. Easter. Plymouth Ph.D. 2006 Gender and space in early modern London, c.1660–1710. Fleur Richards. (Dr. Ian W. Archer.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Protestant nonconformity and sectarianism in Restoration Northamptonshire, 1660–89. Paul M. Geldart. (Dr. John R.D. Coffey.) Leicester Ph.D. 2007 The politics of honour in Restoration theatre: moments of crisis, 1660–88. Marjorie Ford Huntley. (Professor Mark J. Stoyle.) Southampton Ph.D. 2007 Non-conforming Presbyterian women in Restoration Scotland, 1660–79. Alan J. McSeveney. Strathclyde Ph.D. 2006 Politics and economics in the London sugar trade, 1670–1904. Alan Pryor. (Dr. Peter J. Gurney.) Essex M.Phil. 2007 The roots of pre-eminence: the economic fortunes and regional status of Cardiff, 1670–1875. Richard Watson. (Mr. Nicholas W.C. Woodward and Dr. Louise Miskell.) Wales Ph.D. 2007 Royal representations in print: Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1678–83). Gregory D.W. Gifford. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 Household management and the aristocratic woman in the Yorkshire country house, 1680–1815. Julie Day. (Professor John A. Chartres.) Leeds Ph.D. 2007 Leicestershire local and central government, 1685–1721. Neil A. Paterson. (Professor John V. Beckett.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2007 The three questions: James II, the penal laws and tests and the landed classes, 1687–8. S. Peter Walker. (Professor Richard J. Bonney and Dr. David L. Wykes.) Leicester Ph.D. 2007 Lost formal gardens of the north midlands, 1690–1750: a study of Staffordshire gardens and landscape parks. Dianne C. Barre. Bristol Ph.D. 2006 Perceptions of extraordinary natural events in England, 1692–1783. Christopher J. Smyth. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 From 1700 The accounting history of the English brewing industry, 1700–1939: an exploration of Foucauldian disciplinarity. Philip A. Talbot. Warwick Ph.D. 2006 The conjurer, the fairy, the Devil and the preacher: popular magic and religion in Wales, 1700–1905. Lisa M. Tallis. (Dr. David M. Turner.) Wales Ph.D. 2007 ‘So barbarous a practice‘: Cornish wrecking, c.1700–1860, and its survival as a popular myth. Cathryn Pearce. (Professor Sarah R. Palmer and Dr. John Dunne.) Greenwich Ph.D. 2007 Family and illness in 18th-century England. Sile O‘Connor. (Dr. Amanda J. Vickery.) London M.Phil. 2007 The place of knowledge in 18th-century Birmingham. Zillah A.A. Scott. (Professor Carolyn K. Steedman.) Warwick Ph.D. 2007 Eighteenth-century British erotic literature: a reassessment. Jennifer A. Skipp. (Professor Simon F. Burrows and Professor John A. Chartres.) Leeds Ph.D. 2007 Variations on a theme: patterns of congruence and divergence among 18th-century chemical affinity theories. Georgette N.L. Taylor. London Ph.D. 2006 ‘Spurs to industry‘: labour and the labourer in British political economy, 1700–80. Benjamin R. Dew. 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London Ph.D. 2006 Falconry in Britain between 1750 and 1927: the survival, organisation and development of the sport. Gordon Mellor. (Dr. John F. Martin.) De Montfort Ph.D. 2007 The charitable work of the Macclesfield silk manufacturers, 1750–1900. Sarah J. Griffiths. Liverpool Ph.D. 2006 Magical imagination and modern urbanisation, c.1750–1850. Karl Bell. (Dr. Andrew Wood.) East Anglia Ph.D. 2007 Intellectual and cultural interests of women in Ireland, c.1750–1850. Lisa Townsend. (Professor Mary O‘Dowd.) Belfast Ph.D. 2007 Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: libraries, readers and intellectual culture in provincial Scotland, c.1750–c.1820. Mark R.M. Towsey. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2007 Pattern books, showrooms and furniture design: interactions between producers and consumers in England, 1754–1851. Akiko Shimbo. (Professor Penelope J. Corfield.) London Ph.D. 2007 Ceramics and the earls of Bradford, 1762–1915: a case study of database analysis and its value to the ceramic historian. J. Wensley. Staffordshire M.Phil. 2006 The builders of Edinburgh‘s New Town, 1767–95. Anthony R. Lewis. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 Quaker women and education from the late 18th to the mid 19th century. Camilla Leach. (Professor Joyce Goodman and Dr. Sylvia Harrop.) Southampton Ph.D. 2004 ‘A resonating void‘: strategies and responses to poverty, Bath, 1770–1835 Jan Chivers. (Dr. Graham P. Davis and Dr. Elaine Chalus.) Bath Spa D.Phil. 2007 Agrarian change in two lowland Scottish counties: East Lothian and Lanarkshire, c.1770–1820. Muir Johnston. (Professor Ian Whyte.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2007 Church patronage networks below the level of the episcopacy, 1770–1801. Reider C. Payne. (Professor Stephen R. Conway.) London Ph.D. 2007 Highlanders from home: the contribution of the Highland Society and the Gaelic Society of London to Gaelic culture, 1778–1914. Janice M. Fairney. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 Politics, identity and the shaping of unionism in the north of Ireland, from the French Revolution to the Home Rule crisis. John P.A. Bew. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 The politics of private life: propaganda, morality and the family, 1789–1820. Corinna Wagner. York Ph.D. 2006 Employment, politics and working-class women in north-east England, c.1790–1914. Jonathan W. Mood. (Dr. David M. Craig and Dr. Andrzej J. Olechnowicz.) Durham Ph.D. 2007 The formation of bourgeois hegemony in England, 1790–1850. Mark D. Boden. London Ph.D. 2006 From repatriation to revival: continuity and change in the English Benedictine congregation, 1795–1850. Alistair A. Hood. Liverpool Ph.D. 2006 From 1800 The development of the Lewis house in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on the Bragar township. Catriona Mackie. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 The bulldog breed: identifying the nation, c.1800–2000. Fiona P.G. Rowe. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 British orientalism and representations of music in the long 19th century: ideas of music, otherness, sexuality and gender in the popular arts. Claire Mabilat. Durham Ph.D. 2006 Embroidery, business enterprise and philanthropic ventures in 19th-century Britain. Linda Cluckie. Sheffield Hallam Ph.D. 2006 The invisible throne: the Royal Navy, polar exploration and imagining heroes in the 19th century. Huw W.G. Lewis-Jones. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Naturalism and natural theology: science, religion and the representation of the natural world in early to mid 19th-century Britain. Timothy E. Harrison. Nottingham Ph.D. 2006 The ‘physiological turn‘ of Scottish philosophy: the Scottish Enlightenment, the body and popular philosophy in the early 19th century. Nathalie Rosset. (Professor Callum Brown.) Dundee Ph.D. 2007 Parish constables versus police constables: policing early 19th-century Essex. Maureen Scollan. (Professor Clive Emsley.) Open University Ph.D. 2007 From post captain to diplomat: the transformation of Admiral Sir James Saumarez in the Napoleonic Wars. Timothy J.M. Voelcker. (Professors Nicholas A.M. Rodger and Michael Duffy.) Exeter Ph.D. 2007 C.R. Cockerell: architecture, history, time and memory. Anne Bordeleau. London Ph.D. 2006 The early premiership of Lord Liverpool, 1812–15: palma non sine pulvere. James M.A. Inglis. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 The religious thought of Francis William Newman (1805–97): theological scepticism, transcendental mysticism, and the hope for a free and comprehensive Christianity. John W. Clarke, Jr. (Dr. Mark Chapman.) Oxford M.Litt. 2003 ‘Men of Kent‘: gender and nationhood in regional perspective, 1815–37. Katherine S. Beresford. (Professor Catherine M. Hall.) London Ph.D. 2007 The crisis in the countryside: poverty in Surrey, 1815–32. Judy Hill. (Professor Peter R. Edwards.) 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Open University Ph.D. 2007 Independent women in the public life of Victorian Salisbury. Jane Howells. (Professor Sally A. Alexander.) London Ph.D. 2007 A cultural history of information in 19th-century England: Victorian perceptions of an idea. Toni Weller. (Dr. David Bawden.) City Ph.D. 2007 Construction of the network society: evolution of the electric telegraph, 1837–69. Roger N. Barton. (Professors Philip Steadman and Sir Peter Hall and Dr. Peter Dewey.) London Ph.D. 2007 Housing the working classes of Reading, 1837–9. Margaret Simons. (Dr. David Stack.) Reading Ph.D. 2007 The west country Fox family: a study of English Quakerism, 1840–1920. Pamela R. Richardson. (Dr. Mark Jackson and Dr. Jonathan Barry.) Exeter Ph.D. 2007 Railways, landowners and landscape in the county of Norfolk, 1840–1910. Peter Batley. (Professor Colin Divall.) York M.Phil. 2007 The social and economic impact of railway development on the coastal plain communities of Sussex during the 19th century. Anthony Wakeford. Sussex D.Phil. 2006 The intellectual duke: George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll, 1823–1900. Kirsteen M. Mulhern. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 Strategy, solvency and the state: the development of the railway system of northern Scotland, 1844–74. Peter Fletcher. (Professor Colin Divall.) York Ph.D. 2007 Capable, enlightened and masculine: constructing English agriculturalist ideals in formal agricultural education, 1845–2003. Lauren Rickards. (Dr. Dan Brockington.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Crime and disorder during the Great Irish Famine, 1845–52. Cindy Moss. Coventry Ph.D. 2006 Into the belly of the beast: exploring London‘s main drainage system, c.1848–1868. Paul A. Dobraszczyk. Reading Ph.D. 2006 The search for emancipatory knowledge: working-class intellectual reflections on the natural and social order in mid 19th-century Britain, 1848–63. Bruce C. Wheeler. London Ph.D. 2006 ‘From Dolly‘s Brae to Westminster‘: the Loyal Orange Institution in Ireland, c.1849–1886. Jonathan Mattison. (Professor Peter J. Jupp.) Belfast Ph.D. 2005 The General Steam Navigation Company, c.1850–1913: a business history. Robert Forrester. (Professors Sarah R. Palmer and Roger J.B. Knight.) Greenwich Ph.D. 2007 Myth and reality: uncovering and discovering the nurses of St George‘s Hospital, London, 1850–1900. Susan Hawkins. (Professor Ian Rees Jones.) Kingston Ph.D. 2007 Patterns and processes of migration to the port of Hull in the second half of the 19th century: an examination of the movement and settlement of migrants from the rural hinterland and continental Europe. Michael A. Smale. Hull Ph.D. 2006 Chapter of accidents: science, safety and government in mid Victorian Britain. Sarah Crawford Dry. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 Identity and equality: the Anglo-Jewish community in the post-emancipation era, 1858–87. M. Clark. Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Victorian medical men and their understanding of the female condition, 1859–1900. Barbara Trompeter. (Professor Catherine M. Hall.) London Ph.D. 2007 English music, 1860–1960: its reception, revival and recording. Ronald L.E. Foreman. Cardiff Ph.D. 2006 Shell-shock in First World War Britain: an intellectual and medical history, c.1860–c.1920. Tracey Loughran. (Professors Daniel M. Pick and Michèlle Barrett.) London Ph.D. 2006 Girls and examinations, 1860–1902. Andrea Jacobs. (Professors Joyce Goodman and Ruth Watts.) Southampton Ph.D. 2003 Abortion in England, 1861–1939. Emma Jones. (Dr. Amanda J. Vickery and Dr. Alex Windscheffel.) London Ph.D. 2007 Unsung revolution: women in the ordained ministry of the Salvation Army, 1865–1900. Geraldine Kew. (Dr. Susan Mumm.) Open University Ph.D. 2007 The economic institutions of opera in Britain, c.1870–c.1970. Siobhán McAndrew. (Professor Avner Offer.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Forgotten sisters: gender and factory legislation in England, c.1870–1900. Keiko Takeuchi. (Professor Michael E. Rose.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 Satisfying the demands of the new Victorian middle class in a county town: the suburban development of Winchester, 1871–1903. Christine Grover. (Professors Tom Beaumont James and Mike Hart.) Southampton Ph.D. 2007 The life and work of Major Percy Alexander MacMahon. Paul Garcia. Open University Ph.D. 2006 Typhoid in Uppingham: a Victorian town and school in crisis, 1875–7. Nigel Richardson. (Professor Anne Hardy and Dr. Michael Neve.) London Ph.D. 2007 The conservation of historic shopfronts in Perth and Perthshire. Lindsay A. Lennie. Heriot-Watt Ph.D. 2006 Aspiring to manliness: tropes of masculinity and imperialism in the life and works of Elgar. Corissa Gould. London Ph.D. 2007 The retardation of the infant mortality decline in England during the late 19th and 20th century. Paul Glenister. (Dr. Edward J. Higgs.) Essex Ph.D. 2007 Lessons in history: citizenship and national identity in the teaching of history in England, c.1880–1914. Peter Yeandle. (Professor Eric J. Evans and Dr. Yvette Soloman.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2007 The idioms of practice: British neurology, 1880–1960. Stephen Caspar. (Dr. Stephen Jacyna and Michael O‘Brien.) London Ph.D. 2007 Consulting engineers in the British electric light and power industry, c.1880–1914. E. Arapostathis. Oxford D.Phil. 2006 A cultural geography of late Victorian art collecting: identity, acquisition and display. Pippa Biltcliffe. (Professor Felix F. Driver.) London Ph.D. 2007 Anti-imperialism, Englishness and empire in late Victorian Britain. Mira J. Matikkala. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 The late Victorian Roman Catholic periodical press and attitudes to the ‘problem of the poor‘. C. Merrell. (Dr. P. Doyle.) De Montfort Ph.D. 2001 ‘One equal music‘: the Royal College of Music, its inception and the legacy of Sir George Grove, 1883–95. Giles W.E. Brightwell. Durham Ph.D. 2007 Paganism in England, 1885–1914. Jennifer R. Hallett. Bristol Ph.D. 2006 The origins of the Naval Defence Act of 1889 and the new navalism of the 1890s. Roger A. Hardress Parkinson. (Professor Nicholas A.M. Rodger and Dr. Michael Duffy.) Exeter Ph.D. 2006 The amateur competition movement: shaping identity through participation in the Manx Music Festival, 1892–2005. Amanda J. Griffin. Durham Ph.D. 2006 The development of Republican politics in East Tyrone, 1892–1918. Fergal McCluskey. (Dr. Fearghal P. McGarry.) Belfast Ph.D. 2007 Enabling the Great War: ex-servicemen, the mixed economy of welfare and the social construction of disability, 1899–1930. Meaghan Kowalsky. (Professor Andrew S. Thompson.) Leeds Ph.D. 2007 The formation and impact of the Scottish evangelicals‘ programme for working-class education, 1818–46 – including its influence on post-Meiji Japan. Atsuko Betchaku. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 From 1900 Britishness, logic and liberty: the cultural politics of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Thomas L. Akehurst. (Dr. Paul R. Betts.) Sussex D.Phil. 2007 Locating contemporary witches in magical and scientific belief and practice systems. Helen Fitzwater. (Dr. Charlotte Sleigh.) Kent M.A. 2007 The history of gastroenterology in the U.K., with special reference to north-west England. David Shreeve. (Professor John V. Pickstone.) Manchester M.Phil. 2007 Fighting chance: war, popular belief and British society, 1900–51. Vanessa Chambers. (Professor Patricia M. Thane.) London Ph.D. 2007 Fatherhood and the experience of working-class fathers in Britain, 1900–39. Timothy J. Fisher. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 The co-construction of properties in a machinic-complex: a study of the car and Dunlop pneumatic tyres, 1900–25. George Woolaghan. University of the Arts London Ph.D. 2006 ‘The man who writes tunes‘: an assessment of the work of Eric Coates (1886–1957) and his role within the field of British light music. Michael J. Payne. Durham Ph.D. 2007 If you can‘t play in the band – join the Home League. Frieda L. Reece. Manchester Metropolitan Ph.D. 2007 An analysis of the reform of the House of Lords, 1911–2000. Chris A.J. Ballinger. (Professor Vernon B. Bogdanor.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and the National Union of Railwaymen in Ireland, 1911–23. Conor McCabe. (Dr. P. Emmet J. O‘Connor.) Ulster Ph.D. 2006 ‘Firm in union still we stand‘: popular support in Britain for Ulster, 1911–14. Daniel M. Jackson. Northumbria Ph.D. 2006 The Manchester and Salford Womens‘ Citizen‘s Association: a study of women‘s citizenship, 1913–48. Joanne Smith. (Dr. Tony Adams.) Manchester Metropolitan Ph.D. 2007 The development of British tactical doctrine in land warfare, 1914–45. Nicholas Evans. (Dr. John Stone.) London Ph.D. 2007 Scottish culture and the First World War, 1914–39. Ann Petrie. Dundee Ph.D. 2006 ‘Pitied but distrusted‘: discourses surrounding British widows of the First World War. Angela Smith. Sunderland Ph.D. 2007 Christ in no man‘s land: religion and the British soldier, 1914–18. Sarita Cargas. (Revd. Professor Keith Ward.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The British infantry and atrocities on the Western Front, 1914–18. Paul D. Hodges. London Ph.D. 2007 The armed services and Glasgow University, 1914–18. Gerard A.C. Hughes. (Professor Hew F.A. Strachan and Dr. Simon J. Ball.) Glasgow M.Phil. 2007 The children‘s war: British children‘s experience of the Great War. Rosie Kennedy. (Professor Sally A. Alexander.) London Ph.D. 2007 The power of Shakespearean culture: an analysis of Shakespeare‘s role in healing England during World War I. Nancy C.F. Lee. St. Andrews M.Phil. 2006 The tactical development of the 56th (London) Division on the Western Front, 1916–18. Matthew J. Brosnan. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 Evaluating the learning curve: the 38th (Welsh) Division on the Western Front, 1916–18. Mark N. Cook. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 Ireland: nationalist activity, 1917–20. Natasha Grayson. (Professor Charles J.N. Townshend and Dr. David J.P. Maxwell.) Keele Ph.D. 2007 The naval intelligence service since World War I. Stephen Cobb. (Professor Andrew Lambert and Dr. William Philpott.) London Ph.D. 2007 The Labour party‘s attitude to gambling, 1918–70. Gregg McClymont. (Professor Martin E. Ceadel.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Street sex for sale in Soho, 1918–39: experiences, representations and attempts at control. Stefan Slater. (Professor Penelope J. Corfield.) London Ph.D. 2007 The spectacle of the city in Manchester and Liverpool, 1920–40. Charlotte Wildman. (Professor Bertrand O. Taithe.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 An analysis of the National Unemployed Workers Movement. Guadalupe H. Simons. Birmingham M.Phil. 2005 Ceramics in Britain and France, 1921–31: economics, marketing and the power of exhibitions. Jennifer Hill. Brighton Ph.D. 2006 The British Army, 1922–44: military thought and practice compared and contrasted. Simon Anglim. Wales Ph.D. 2007 Instinctive leadership, intuitive decision making: a command study of General Sir Hugh Stockwell. J. Riley. Cranfield Ph.D. 2006 Politics in Keighley, 1927–32. Keith E. Dredge. Leeds M.A. 2006 The Anglican prayer book controversy of 1927–8 and national religion. John Maiden. (Professor David W. Bebbington and Dr. Iain G.C. Hutchison.) Stirling Ph.D. 2007 Blackpool‘s aerodromes, 1928–36: politics and the local media. Susan Seabridge. Central Lancashire M.A. 2006 The B.B.C. and its policy towards refugee musicians in the 1930s. Sheena Cleaton. London Ph.D. 2007 Then what could Chamberlain do other than what Chamberlain did? A synthesis of the alternatives to Chamberlain‘s policy of appeasement, 1936–9. Andrew Stedman. (Professors John R. Davis and Peter J. Beck.) Kingston Ph.D. 2007 The age of innocence: a history of the relationship between football authorities and the B.B.C. television service, 1937–82. F. Chisari. (Professor Pierre Lanfranchi and Dr. Jeffrey Hill.) De Montfort Ph.D. 2007 The Labour party and impact of war, 1939–45. Robert Crowcroft. (Professor Richard C. Whiting and Dr. Owen A. Hartley.) Leeds Ph.D. 2007 The impact of the Second World War on Anglo-Jewry. Katherine Saunders. (Professor Richard C. Whiting and Dr. Lorna L. Waddington.) Leeds M.A. 2007 Civilian evacuation to Devon in the Second World War. Susan J. Hess. Exeter Ph.D. 2006 British intelligence and threats to national security, c.1941–1951. J. Calder Walton. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Ernest Zobole and the visual culture of south Wales since 1945. Ceri Thomas. (Professors Gareth Williams and Tony Curtis.) Glamorgan Ph.D. 2007 Labour party attitudes to European integration, 1945–75. James R. McKay. Birmingham Ph.D. 2006 ‘Keeping going‘: housewives, neuroses and the domestic environment, 1945–70. Alison Haggett. (Professor Mark A. Jackson and Dr. Joseph L. Melling.) Exeter Ph.D. 2007 Civil defence in Cold War Britain, 1945–68. Matthew Grant. (Professor Peter J. Hennessy.) London Ph.D. 2006 Women activists and women‘s associations in Ireland, 1945–68. Christopher Shepard. (Professor Mary O‘Dowd.) Belfast Ph.D. 2007 Labour and the House of Lords dilemma: constitutional reform in the post-war Britain, 1945–51. Olga Borymchuk. (Dr. John Davis.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 ‘An exercise in gracious living‘: the north-east new towns, 1947–88. David J. Boyes. (Dr. Andrzej J. Olechnowicz and Professor Philip A. Williamson.) Durham Ph.D. 2007 Festival city: the arts, culture and moral conflict in Edinburgh, 1947–67. Angela Bartie. (Professor Callum Brown.) Dundee Ph.D. 2007 Fashion and the mass consumer society in Britain, c.1950–2001. Shinobu Majima. (Professor Avner Offer.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 History of the Obstetric Anaesthetists‘ Association. Richard Barnett. (Dr. Michael R. Neve and Dr. Anne Hardy.) London Ph.D. 2007 The reconstruction of life sciences in academia, 1950–2000. Gael Lancelot. (Dr. Jonathan H. Harwood.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 Organists in the Church of England, 1950–99: an ethnographic and contextual study in relation to the dioceses of Bristol and Bath and Wells. Martin J. Freke. West of England Ph.D. 2006 Girls and career choice in the late 1950s: constructions of the female role. Stephanie Spencer. (Professors Joyce Goodman and Ruth Watts.) Southampton Ph.D. 2001 Popular memory and urban restucturing: London‘s riverscapes. Toby Butler. (Professor David Gilbert.) London Ph.D. 2007 Prime ministers and civil service reform, 1960–74. Jon Davis. (Professor Peter J. Hennessy.) London Ph.D. 2007 Official Irish republicanism, 1962–72. Sean Swan. Ulster Ph.D. 2006 The south Wales miners, 1964–85. Ben Curtis. (Dr. Andrew J. Croll and Professor Christopher M. Williams.) Glamorgan Ph.D. 2007 Radio geopolitics: the B.B.C. World Service and Britain‘s ‘voice around the world‘. Alasdair Pinkerton. (Dr. Klaus Dodds.) London Ph.D. 2007 Fissured resurgence: developments in English pan-evangelicalism, 1966–2001. Robert E. Warner. London Ph.D. 2006 Medicine and the media: negotiating the transplantable heart in Britain, 1967–9. Ayesha Nathoo. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 Irish security policy, 1973–2003: the influence of European Union security integration and the limits imposed by domestic political factors. Daniel Sweeney. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 The Conservative government and the Sunningdale Agreement. Jonathan Harris. (Ms Sabine Wichert.) Belfast Ph.D. 2007 British indie music in the 1990s: public spheres, media and exclusion. Rachel F. White. London Ph.D. 2006 International history Iconic women: martyrdom and the female body in early Christianity. Elena R.L. Martin. Durham M.A. 2007 Institutions and endowments: state credibility, fiscal institutions and divergence, Argentina and Australia, c.1880–1980. Andrew H. Mitchell. London Ph.D. 2007 German colonialism in Africa and the development of racial thinking. Vincent De Vos. Kingston M.Res. 2006 British multinationals, culture and empire in the early 20th century. Valerie Johnson. (Professor Andrew N. Porter.) London Ph.D. 2007 International law at sea, economic warfare and Britain‘s response to the German U-boat campaign. Bruce Russell. (Dr. Bernard A. Waites.) Open University Ph.D. 2007 Canadians in the Spanish Civil War. Michael Petrou. (Dr. Thomas C. Buchanan.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Political warfare against the Kremlin: U.S. and British propaganda policy at the beginning of the Cold War. Lowell Schwartz. (Professor Saki Dockrill and Dr. Michael Rainsborough.) London Ph.D. 2007 Military necessity or moral tragedy: challenging the myth surrounding the use of the atomic bomb. James Titcombe. (Dr. George Conyne.) Kent M.A. 2007 Containment and decolonisation: the United States, Great Britain and Singapore, 1953–61. S.R. Joey Long. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 Anthony Eden and the formulation of British foreign policy for the Geneva conference on Indo-China of 1954. Joe Bufton. (Dr. George Conyne.) Kent M.A. 2007 Reform and reception: Iran, the United States, and modernisation in the early 1960s. Adam Cooper. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 At odds in Arabia: Anglo-American relations and British withdrawal from the Federation of South Arabia, 1962–7. Alexander R. Wieland. London Ph.D. 2006 Africa The rise of the Almohads: Islam, identity and belief in north Africa. Allen J. Fromherz. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2006 The economic decline of the Circassian Mamluks in Egypt (872–922/1468–1517). Wan K. Mujani. (Dr. Ron P. Buckley.) Manchester Ph.D. 2006 The construction of Jewish identities in sub-Saharan Africa. Edith Lachkar Bruder. London Ph.D. 2006 A historical review of the rise and decline of trade in the Red Sea region and the east coast of Africa during the 19th century. Firdaus Isap. Leeds M.A. 2006 ‘A Bem da Nacao‘: medical science in a diamond company in Portuguese Angola. Jorge Varanda. (Professors Harold J. Cook and Anne Hardy.) London Ph.D. 2007 Reshaping the mythologies of Frenchness: culture, history and identity in European Algeria, 1870–1930. John A. Strachan. (Professor Bertrand O. Taithe.) Manchester Ph.D. 2006 Social and economic change in colonial north-central Nigeria: the history of Akwanga division, 1911–60. Jonathan M. Ayuba. (Dr. John S. Parker.) London Ph.D. 2007 Equatorial Guinea, 1927–79: a new African tradition. Enrique Sang Okenve-Martinez. (Dr. John S. Parker.) London Ph.D. 2007 Kwame Nkrumah: an intellectual biography. Ama B. Biney. (Dr. John S. Parker.) London Ph.D. 2007 A phoenix rising: a history of Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, South Africa, 1942–90. Simonne J. Horwitz. (Professors William J. Beinart Megan A. Vaughan.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The elusive quest for industrialisation in Africa: a comparative study of Ghana and Kenya, c.1950–2000. Miatta N. Fahnbulleh. London Ph.D. 2006 French policy towards Tunisia and Morocco: the international dimensions of decolonisation, 1950–6. Ryo Ikeda. London Ph.D. 2006 British Army counterinsurgency and the use of force in Kenya, 1952–6. Huw Bennett. Wales Ph.D. 2007 Forced removals, land N.G.O.s and community politics in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1953–2002. Chizuko Sato. Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The people‘s war of Umkhonto We Sizwe. Thulasizwe Simpson. London Ph.D. 2007 Memory, meaning and Africa: historical analogy in Somalia, Rwanda and Darfur. Darren C. Brunk. Wales Ph.D. 2006 Celebrating British and French Imperialism: The Making of Colonial Heroes Acting in Africa, 1870-1939'. Berny Sèbe. Oxford D.Phil 2007 American and the West Indies General An analysis of grass-roots co-operative economic development in Nova Scotia and Caribbean missions, 1930–60: case studies in the light of Catholic social teaching and social capital theory. Michael A. Bouzigard. (Revd. Professor Christopher Rowland and Dr. E.V.K. FitzGerald.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 A global policy in a regional setting: the Eisenhower administration, Latin America & Brazil, 1953–61. B. Sewell. (Dr. Ian R.W. Jackson.) De Montfort Ph.D. 2006 ‘Victory has many fathers, defeat is an orphan‘: an analysis of the background to, and failure of, the Bay of Pigs operation in 1961. Kevin O‘Daly. (Professor Iwan Morgan.) London M.Phil. 2007 Canada A view from the ground: understanding the ‘place‘ of the Fraser Valley in the changing contexts of a colonial world, 1792–1918. Jeffry M. Oliver. Sheffield Ph.D. 2006 The paradox of unity: Winston Churchill, Mackenzie King and Anglo-Canadian relations, 1940–5. W. Neville Sloane. East Anglia Ph.D. 2007 Colonial America and the U.S.A. Piercing the ‘veil‘: smallpox vaccination and the ‘Philadelphia Negro‘ struggle for agency. Dayle De Lancey. (Dr. Lynette L. Schumaker.) Manchester Ph.D. 2007 Beyond the East River: the Roebling family in the 19th century. Hannah E. Giles. (Dr. Kate M. Dossett and Dr. Katrina Honeyman.) Leeds M.A. 2007 Evolving morality in a transatlantic society: Ida B. Wells, anti-lynching activism and British interest in American race relations, 1877–1914. Sarah L. Silkey. East Anglia Ph.D. 2006 The dual legacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Cathy A. Hoult. (Dr. Elizabeth J. Clapp.) Leicester Ph.D. 2007 Theodore Roosevelt‘s use of the naval services as instruments of diplomacy. Henry Hendrix. (Professor Andrew Lambert and Dr. Alan James.) London Ph.D. 2007 ‘Brothers in arms‘? The American and British coalition on the Western Front, 1918. M. Yockelson. Cranfield Ph.D. 2006 Repatriation, remembrance and return: the politics of commemoration in post-war America, 1919–33. Lisa M. Budreau. (Dr. Gareth B. Davies.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 From Popular Front to Communist Front, 1941–51. Robert Szymczak. (Professor Michael J. Heale.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2007 The development of black political organisation in Quitman County, Mississippi, 1945–75. Simon T. Cuthbert-Kerr. Strathclyde Ph.D. 2006 National self-determination versus hegemony: conflict in American foreign policy during the Truman administration, 1945–53. Timothy R. Barraclough. Birmingham M.Phil. 2006 American populist conservatism, 1977–88. Robert S. Freedman. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Central and Latin America Wealth and philanthropy: the economic elite in Peru, 1916–60. Felipe Portocarrero. (Ms. T. Rosemary Thorp.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 The struggle for the meaning of democracy in Chile, 1988–94. Hernán C. Valenzuela. Essex Ph.D. 2007 Asia General Sultanate architecture of south Asia, 1398–1526. Thalia D.J. Kennedy. London Ph.D. 2006 Middle East Seleucid frontier policy in the East: the nature and extent of imperial control. Kenneth S. Bell. (Professor Amélie T.L. Kuhrt.) London M.Phil. 2007 Aspects of the reign of al-Mustan?ir Bi‘llah, 427–87 A.H./1036–94 A.D. Kirsten E.F. Clarke. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 ‘From water every living thing‘: water mills, irrigation and agriculture in the Bilad al-Sham – perspectives on history, architecture, landscape and society, A.D. 1100–1850. Charlotte Schriwer. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2006 The historical background of the Jewish-Arab conflict during the years 1882–1914. Avshalom Manzor. Anglia Ruskin Ph.D. 2006 Clashes of agencies: the formation and failure of early Kurdish nationalism, 1918–22. Suleyman Aslan. (Professor Vanessa A. Martin.) London Ph.D. 2007 Muslim-Christian relations in Palestine during the British Mandate period. Erik E. Freas. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2006 A discourse on domination in Mandate Palestine. Zeina B. Ghandour. London Ph.D. 2006 Britain‘s relations with Turkey during the Second World War. Nicholas Tamkin. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Nationalism, political Islam and the Kurdish question in Iran in the late 20th century. Said Shamsaddini. (Professor Vanessa A. Martin.) London Ph.D. 2007 The politics of remembering in post-war Lebanon: civil war, memory and public culture. Sune Haugbolle. (Dr. Walter Armbrust.) Oxford D.Phil. 2006 Central Asia Ahmad Shah Massoud and the genesis of the nationalist anti-communist movement in north-eastern Afghanistan, 1969–79. Peter Bayon DeNeufville. London Ph.D. 2006 India and Pakistan Medicine and modernity in colonial Bengal, c.1755–1930. Projit B. Mukharji. (Professor David Arnold.) London Ph.D. 2006 Communications and patterns of circulation: trade, travel and knowledge in colonial Bihar, 1760s–1870s. Nitin Sinha. (Professor B.R. (Tom) Tomlinson.) London Ph.D. 2007 Colonial identities and visual culture: representations of the British in India, c.1785–1845. Prasannajit W.S. de Silva. (Professors Elizabeth A. James and D. Cherry.) Sussex D.Phil. 2007 The crown and the jewel: images of royalty and viceroyalty in the making of imperial India and Britain. Tracy J. Anderson. Sussex D.Phil. 2006 Geographies, histories, boundaries: the formation of a regional cultural idiom in colonial north India. Harriet M. Bury. London Ph.D. 2007 Maternal mortality and the state: British India, c.1840–c.1920. Sean Lang. (Dr. Mary Abbott and Professor Mark Harrison.) Anglia Ruskin Ph.D. 2007 Alfred Webb and nationalist politics in Ireland and India: the life of a Dublin Quaker printer. Jennifer Regan. (Professor Sean J. Connolly.) Belfast Ph.D. 2007 ‘Swords trembling in their scabbards‘: a study of Indian officers in the Indian cavalry, 1858–1918. Michael Creese. (Dr. Peter Musgrave.) Leicester Ph.D. 2007 Disease, labour and habitation: understanding health and sanitation in the tea plantations of Darjeeling and Duars (Bengal, India), 1860–1980. Nandini Bhattacharya. (Dr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Dr. Anne Hardy.) London Ph.D. 2007 Famine, disease, medicine and the state in Madras Presidency, 1876–8. Leela Sami. (Professor Anne Hardy and Dr. Alex Mackay.) London Ph.D. 2007 The politics of punishment and state violence in India, 1919–56. Taylor C. Sherman. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 Sri Lanka and Indian Ocean State, economy and society in Mauritius, 1929–45. Sadasivam J. Reddi. London Ph.D. 2006 South-East Asia History and ethnicity in Burma: cultural contexts of the ethnic category ‘Kachin‘ in the colonial and post-colonial state, 1824–2004. Mandy J. Sadan. London Ph.D. 2007 Gambling, the state and society in Siam, c.1880–1945. James A. Warren. (Professor Ian G. Brown.) London Ph.D. 2007 Specifying fevers: positioning Malaya‘s health lobbies. Lie Kai Khiun. (Dr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Dr. Michael R. Neve.) London Ph.D. 2007 Committed detachment: Britain and the war in Indochina, 1968–72. Paul D. Le Long. London Ph.D. 2006 Far East, East Indies and Philippines The security and defence of Brunei Darussalam during the reign of Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin, 1950–67. Dato H.H.B.H.A. Majid. London M.Phil. 2006 Brunei‘s political development, 1966–84: challenges and difficulties over its security and survival. Nani S. Haji Abu Bakar. Leeds Ph.D. 2006 China, Hong Kong and Korea Ritual concepts and political factors in the making of Tang dynasty princess tombs in the 7th and 8th centuries. Chao-Hui. J. Liu. London Ph.D. 2006 The meanings of China and British imperial expansion, 1763–1834. Ulrike B. Hillemann. Cambridge Ph.D. 2006 Women missionaries in China, 1850s–1930s. J. White. (Dr. P. Doyle and Dr. P. Williams.) De Montfort Ph.D. 2003 Playing for keeps: the toy culture in China, 1895–1949. Valentina Boretti. (Professor Frank Dikötter.) London Ph.D. 2007 Korean Bible women; their vital contribution to Korean Protestantism, 1895–1945. Sung-Jin Chang. Edinburgh Ph.D. 2006 British industrial investment in mainland China, 1895–1940. David Macdonald Swan. London Ph.D. 2006 The history of the cement industry of Guangdong Province, China, 1906–38. Humphrey M.-H. Ko. Leeds M.A. 2006 A British diplomat in China: Sir John Jordan and the Shantung question, 1914–20. Koji Hirata. Bristol M.Phil. 2007 Japan A comparative study of the provision of public open space in industrialising societies east and west: the work of pioneer British and Japanese park designers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Naho Shiba. (Professor Helen E. Meller.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2007 British diplomatic perceptions of modernisation and change in early Meiji Japan, 1868–90. Fauziah Fathil. London Ph.D. 2006 The influence of British and Japanese mercantile circles upon the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1894–1902. Mayumi Uruma. London Ph.D. 2007 The English-language press networks of East Asia and international perceptions of Japan, 1918–41. Peter A.C. O‘Connor. (Dr. Richard Sims.) London Ph.D. 2006 Australasia and Pacific Ocean The province of science: James Hector and the New Zealand Institute, 1867–1903. Francis L. Reid. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007 Scottish shipbuilding and the Australian market, 1901–71. Michael J. MacDonald. (Dr. Tony Slaven and Dr. Duncan M. Ross.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2007 Arthur Boyd: a life. Darleen Bungey. Kingston Ph.D. 2007 |
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