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HISTORICAL METHODS

The culture of enthusiasm: technology, collecting and museums. Hilary Geoghegan. (Professor Felix F. Driver.) London Ph.D. 2008

HISTORIOGRAPHY

Learned societies and the ancient national past in Britain, France and Germany, 1830–90. Chris Manias. London Ph.D. 2008

The scholar advocate: Rudolf Schlesinger's writings on Marxism and Soviet historiography. Stephanie J. McKendry. (Professor James D. White.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

'Nothing more than words': E.H. Carr and the apologia of appeasement. Benjamin J. Smith. (Dr. Nicholas J. Crowson.) Birmingham M.Phil. 2007

ANCIENT HISTORY

General

Life and death of the longhouse: daily life during and after the early Neolithic in the river valleys of the Paris Basin. Penny Bickle. Cardiff Ph.D. 2008

History of grappling in the western world. Ibrahim Amin. (Professor Tim Parkin.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Rewriting the Bible: a study of 14 reception-histories of biblical stories. Anthony Swindell. (Professors Keith Elliott and Philip A. Mellor.) Leeds Ph.D. 2006

Polemic and episcopal authority in 4th-century Christianity. Richard A. Flower. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Egypt

An analysis of Egypt's foreign policy during the Saite period. Julian Boast. Birmingham M.Phil. 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. 2008

Greece and Mediterranean

The collapse of palatial society in late Bronze Age Greece and the post-palatial period. Guy Middleton. (Dr. O.T. Dickinson and Professor D.J. Rowe.) Durham Ph.D. 2008

Governmental intervention in foreign trade in archaic and classical Greece. M.A. Errietta Bissa. (Professor Hans van Wees.) London Ph.D. 2008

The Athenian navy: an investigation into the operations, politics and ideology of the Athenian fleet between 480 and 322 B.C. Samuel Potts. (Dr. Louis Rawlings.) Cardiff Ph.D. 2008

Hellenistic popular astronomy: Aratus' Phaenomena. Stamatina Mastorakou. (Dr. Serafina Cuomo.) London Ph.D. 2008

The history and archaeology of the Aegean Islands in late antiquity (A.D. 300–700): the case of the Dodecanese. Georgios Deligiannakis. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Ancient Rome and the empire

Warlords and generals: the development of the early Roman army. Jeremy Armstrong. (Dr. Jonathan Coulston.) St. Andrews Ph.D. 2008

Individualism in Roman society 200 B.C.–A.D. 212: a study of the person, personal rights and law in the light of modern political theory. Nils Mason. (Dr. Mary Beagon.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Alienation and rebellion in Roman Italy, 79–60 B.C. Ian Harrison. (Professor Tim Cornell.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Personal adornment and the expression of identity in Roman Britain : a study of the material culture of appearance. Judith Rosten. Leicester Ph.D. 2007

The religious topography of late antique Rome (A.D. 313–440): a case for a strategy. Michael J.J. Mulryan. (Professor Michael H. Crawford.) London Ph.D. 2008

Early and Roman Britain

Decline, collapse or transformation? Hadrian's wall in the 4th–5th centuries A.D. Robert M. Collins. York Ph.D. 2007

Sub-Roman Britain. Luca Larpi. (Professor David Langslow.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Early Anglo-Saxon settlement in the East Midlands, A.D. 450–850. Michael A. Hawkes. Leicester M.A. 2007

MEDIEVAL EUROPE

General and continental

Editing and analysing The Rule of the Master. Abigail Gometz. (Professor Ian N. Wood and Dr. William T. Flynn.) Leeds Ph.D. 2008

Power, the episcopacy and elite culture in the post-Roman Rhτne valley. Leslie Dodd. Glasgow Ph.D. 2007

Space, light and experience in middle Byzantine churches. Claire Nesbitt. Newcastle upon Tyne Ph.D. 2007

Upper Lotharingia and Champagne, c.850–c.1100. Charles M.A. West. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Literary-legal relations in Commonwealth-period Iceland. Hannah Burrows. York Ph.D. 2007

The archaeology of pligrimage on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, Spain: a landscape perspective. J.M. Candy. Glasgow Ph.D. 2007

St. Christopher in medieval Spanish literature. Sarah V. Buxton. Durham M.A. 2007

The western religious orders in medieval Greece. Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis. (Professors Graham Loud and Peter Lock.) Leeds Ph.D. 2008

Fulbert of Chartres and his circle: scholarship and society in 11th-century France. Bernard G. Gowers. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

The relations between England and Flanders, 1066–c.1200, with special reference to the Anglo-Flemish treaties. Eljas I. Oksanen. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Art and education in northern Europe, c.1080–c.1220. Laura Cleaver. (Professor John H. Lowden.) London Ph.D. 2008

Miles juvenis: the upbringing and training of young knights in aristocratic society in the 12th and 13th centuries. Yeu-Chian (Iris) Rau. (Professor Graham A. Loud.) Leeds M.Phil. 2008

The legacy of schism: relations between the papacy and the city of Rome, c.1130–1210. John Doran. (Professor Jonathan P. Phillips.) London Ph.D. 2008

Manuel I Komnenos and Italy: Byzantine foreign policy, 1135–1180. Dmitri Tolstoy-Miloslavski. (Dr. Jonathan Harris.) London Ph.D. 2008

Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine empire and Anatolia, 1147. Jason Roche. (Professor Hugh Kennedy.) St. Andrews Ph.D. 2008

The Societas Lombardie: the Lombard League, 1164–1225. Gianluca Raccagni. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190–1291. Nicholas Morton. (Professor Jonathan P. Phillips.) London Ph.D. 2008

The Greek church of Cyprus, Morea and Constantinople during the Frankish era, 1196–1303. Elena Kaffa. (Professor P. Edbury.) Cardiff Ph.D. 2008

Pater Patriae: St. Stanislas and the art of the Polish kings, 1200–1455. Agnieszka Roznowska-Sadraei. (Professor Paul Crossley.) London Ph.D. 2007

Late Byzantine warfare. Savvas Kyriakidis. Birmingham Ph.D. 2007

The idea of paradigm in church history: the notion of papal monarchy in the 13th century, from Innocent III to Boniface VIII. Matthew Harris. (Professor Robert N. Swanson.) Birmingham Ph.D. 2007

Crusading in Romania: a study of Byzantine-Western relations and attitudes, 1204–82. Nikolaos Chrissis. (Dr. Jonathan Harris.) London Ph.D. 2008

State finance, war and redistribution in Portugal, 1249–1527. Antonio M.B. de M. Castro Henriques. (Professor W. Mark Ormrod.) York Ph.D. 2008

St. Elizabeth's in Kosice: town, court and church-building in late medieval Hungary. Timothy Juckes. (Professor Paul B. Crossley.) London Ph.D. 2008

Late medieval pet keeping: gender, status and emotions. Kathleen F. Walker-Meikle. (Professor David L. d'Avray.) London Ph.D. 2008

The papacy and the nations of Christendom: a study with particular focus on the pontificate of John XXII (1316–1334). Sarah E. Layfield. (Dr. Len E. Scales and Professor Robin F. Frame.) Durham Ph.D. 2008

The domestic and papal court between Avignon and Rome in the pontificate of Urban V. Ivan V. Polancec. (Professor David L. d'Avray.) London Ph.D. 2008

Kingship and usurpation, 1399–1485. Lucy Brown. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Objects of piety: private devotion in 15th- and 16th-century Florence. Suzy Knight. (Professor Kate J.P. Lowe.) London Ph.D. 2008

Optical devices and early Netherlandish visual culture, c.1400–c.1520. Stephen Hanley. (Dr. Jeanne Nuechterlein.) York Ph.D. 2008

Felix Fabri and his audiences: the pilgrimage writings of a Dominican preacher in late medieval Germany. Kathryne Beebe. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

British Isles

English medieval bone flutes, c.450–c.1550 A.D. Helen Leaf. London Ph.D. 2008

Animal visual culture in the middle ages: an archaeological study of animal representations in Britain. Sarah J.F.S. Phillips. (Dr. Pam Graves and Dr. Peter Rowley-Conwy.) Durham Ph.D. 2008

Health in southern and eastern England: a perspective on the early medieval period. Alvaro L. Arce. (Professor Charlotte Roberts and Dr. Andrew Millard.) Durham Ph.D. 2007

Materials for the study of the cult of St. Agnes of Rome in Anglo-Saxon England: texts and interpretations. Christine Phillips. (Dr. Mary Garrison and Dr. Gabriella Corona.) York Ph.D. 2008

Horsemen and warriors: sculptural patronage in Viking age Northumbria. Natalie Russell. (Dr. Jane Hawkes and Dr. Catherine R.E. Cubitt.) York M.Phil. 2008

Towards a reception history of the surviving Old English Bede manuscripts: a diachronic sudy extending from the date of their production in Anglo-Saxon England to their first appearance in print in 1643. Lorraine Taylor. Belfast Ph.D. 2007

Contested loyalties: regional and national identities in the midland kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, c.700–c.900. Morn D.T. Capper. (Professor Sarah R.I. Foot.) Sheffield Ph.D. 2008

Scandinavian settlement of northern Shetland: Northmavine, Yell, Unst and Fetlar. Juha M. Marttila. (Dr. Colleen E. Batey.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

Viking-age settlements in North-West England: a re-consideration. Richard Watson. (Professor Nicholas Higham.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

The Lincolnshire Marsh: landscape evolution, settlement development and the salt industry. Helen Fenwick. Hull Ph.D. 2007

Experiencing small medieval urban buildings: the history, architecture and archaeology of Abbey Row, Tewkesbury (England). Glynn C. Kelso. Belfast Ph.D. 2007

The bedesmen of Worcester cathedral: post-Reformation cathedral charity compared with St. Oswald's hospital alms people, c.1660–1900. Eileen McGrath. (Dr. Alannah E. Tomkins and Dr. Ian J. Atherton.) Keele Ph.D. 2008

Catalysts and constraints of castle-building in Suffolk c.1066–1200 AD. Duncan McAndrew. (Mr. Gustav Milne and Dr. Andrew Reynolds.) London Ph.D. 2008

Forgotten revelation: the iconographic development of the Anglo-Norman verse and early prose apocalypse manuscripts. Nancy L. Ross. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

The production and the historical context of the Vitae Dunstani of Osbern, Eadmer and William of Malmesbury, c.1090–c. 1130. Alexander Vaughan. Cambridge Ph.D. 2008

The English household chapel, c.1100–c.1500: an institutional study. Kent A.C. Rawlinson. (Dr. Margaret M. Harvey and Professor David W. Rollason.) Durham Ph.D. 2008

The cult of St. Margaret of Antioch in medieval England. Yuliana Dresvina. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

The prevention and resolution of disputes over property rights in 12th- and early 13th-century Scotland. Eileen M. O'Sullivan. (Dr. Dauvit E. Broun.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

The religious dimensions of English Cistercian privileges. Stuart A. Morgan. (Professor David L. d'Avray.) London Ph.D. 2008

Noblewomen in Shropshire and the adjacent March of Wales, 1150–1350. Emma Cavell. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Welsh settlement in medieval Ireland, c.1170–1530. Roger T. Price. (Mr. Ifor W. Rowlands.) Wales Ph.D. 2008

The exchequer and some of its revenue generating aspects during the reign of Richard I. John A. Jackson. Sheffield Ph.D. 2007

Transport for London, 1250–1550. Claire Martin. (Professor Caroline M. Barron.) London Ph.D. 2008

Memory and gender in the late medieval church courts of York. Bronach C. Kane. (Dr. P. Jeremy P. Goldberg.) York Ph.D. 2008

Meditations of the Bible in late medieval England. Eyal Poleg. (Professor Miri Rubin.) London Ph.D. 2008

Small houses in late medieval York and Norwich. Jayne Rimmer. (Dr. Sarah Rees Jones and Dr. Katherine Giles.) York Ph.D. 2007

Politics and community in south Nottinghamshire, 1327–60. Peter Russell. (Dr. Gwilym Dodd.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2008

Sacred space: priorities, perception and the presence of God in late medieval Yorkshire parish churches. Anthony W. Masinton. York Ph.D. 2007

Goldsmiths and the English royal court, 1360–1413. Jessica Lutkin. (Professor Nigel E. Saul.) London Ph.D. 2008

Order and society: Great Yarmouth, 1366–1381. Janka Rodziewicz. (Dr. Stephen D. Church.) East Anglia Ph.D. 2008

Civic government and identity in the provincial towns of late medieval England, c.1370–c.1500. Helen M. Carrel. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Individualising the spiritual self in late 14th-century England. Julia E. Richey. Birmingham M.Phil. 2007

Mortality and life expectancy: Winchester College and the New College, Oxford c.1393–c.1540. Rebecca Oakes. (Professors Michael A. Hicks and Tom Beaumont James.) Southampton Ph.D. 2008

The painted glass of Great Malvern priory (Worcs.) c.1430–c.1500. Heather Gilderdale Scott. (Professor Paul B. Crossley.) London Ph.D. 2008

The client network, connections and patronage of Sir John Howard (Lord Howard, first duke of Norfolk) in north-east Essex and south Suffolk. John Ashdown-Hill. (Dr. Christopher Thornton.) Essex Ph.D. 2008

Politics, governance and the Wars of the Roses: the political elites of south-west England, 1450–1500. Robert Stansfield. (Dr. Alexander Grant.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2008

Political communication in early Tudor England: the Bristol elite, the urban community and the crown, c.1471–c.1553. James M. Lee. West of England Ph.D. 2007

The circulation and reception of a Middle English alchemical poem: the Verses upon the Elixir and the associated corpus of alchemica. Anke Timmermann. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Experiencing Tudor architecture: exploring masculine identity in post-medieval space. Rupert Goulding. Reading Ph.D. 2007

MODERN EUROPE

General

The horse in European history, 1550–1900. Tatsuya Mitsuda. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Haberdashery for use in dress, 1550–1800. P. Hamilton. Wolverhampton Ph.D. 2007

Neo-scholastic humanism and the re-unification of Europe, 1878–1958. Alan P. Fimister. Aberdeen Ph.D. 2007

Jews in the metropolis: urban Jewish cultures in London, Berlin and Paris, c.1880–1940. Tobias Metzler. (Professor Joachim Schloer.) Southampton Ph.D. 2008

Provincial banking in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and successor states, 1913–25. Damir Jelic. (Professor Philip L. Cottrell.) Leicester Ph.D. 2008

Towards an uncivil society: reactions to Soviet and Nazi occupation and the demise of civil society in Riga, 1939–49. Matthew Kott. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

The forgotten Holocaust? Post-war representations of the non-Jewish victims in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Hazel F. Starmes. (Professor A.R.J. (Tony) Kushner.) Southampton Ph.D. 2007

Allies and small wars: British, French and Portuguese late colonial counterinsurgency doctrines (1945–75). Bruno Reis. (Professor James Gow and Professor Lawrence D. Freedman.) London Ph.D. 2008

Framing genocide: early interpretations of the Holocaust in the British, Finnish and Swedish press, 1945–50. Antero Holmila. (Professor Dan Stone.) London Ph.D. 2008

Austria

Today, tomorrow .. and yesterday? Modern Austrian identity construction and the case of Herman Bahr and Stefan Zweig. Nikolaus Unger. (Professor Robin F.C. Okey.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

Balkan states

British perceptions of the Balkan Slavs: professional and popular categorizations before 1914. Suonpδa Mika. (Dr. David E. Omissi and Professor Robin Pearson.) Hull Ph.D. 2008

Ethnic nationalism, the great powers and the question of Albanian independence, 1912–21. Nicola C. Guy. (Dr. David Moon and Dr. Sarah Davies.) Durham Ph.D. 2007

Belgium

Reform, revolution and royalism in Brussels, 1780–90. Peter J. Illing. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

France

Jean Bodin's Colloquium Heptaplomeres: clandestine literature, heterodoxy and the possibility of toleration, 1590–1750. Delphine Doucet. (Professor Justin A.I. Champion.) London Ph.D. 2008

Breaking the rules: the emergence of the active female apostolate in early 17th-century France. Ruth Manning. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Splitting the cultural seams: the discourse on female appearance in the fashion periodical and novel of the Second Empire. Kate Nelson Best. London Ph.D. 2007

Collecting bodies: art, medicine and sexuality in late 19th-century France. Mary J. Hunter. London Ph.D. 2007

Ambroise Vollard: dealer and publisher, 1893–1900. Jonathan G. Pascoe Pratt. (Professor John House.) London Ph.D. 2007

Sounds modern: perils and possibilities in the audible metropolis, 1889–1939. James Mansell. (Professor Bertrand O. Taithe.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Adolphe Rettι and G.K. Chesterton: two case-studies of the Catholic reaction to secularisation in France and England, 1904–14. Brian J. Sudlow. Reading Ph.D. 2007

The S.F.I.O. and national integration: regional socialism and national identity in interwar Alsace. Alison Carrol. (Dr. Martin C. Thomas and Dr. Jeremy D. Noakes.) Exeter Ph.D. 2008

Three voices of the inter-war French Catholic revival: Jacques Maritain, Charles du Bos and Gabriel Marcel and the tensions of reconciliation with the world. Katherine Davies. (Professor Bertrand O. Taithe and Dr. Stuart Jones.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Britain could not ask for a better ally: France in the British press 1939–40. Richard J. Carswell. (Professor Nicholas J. Atkin.) Reading Ph.D. 2008

British-French relations, 1969–74. Gavin M. Stanley. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Germany

Martin Bucer's doctrine of justification and the Colloquy of Regensburg, 1541. Brian Lugioyo. Aberdeen Ph.D. 2007

Sources of life: Ranke and the religious foundations of scientific history. J. Daniel Braw. (Dr. Axel Kφrner.) London Ph.D. 2008

Literature and censorship in early Restoration Germany. Katy Heady. Sheffield Ph.D. 2007

Politics and state-building in Vφrmarz Hanover: the role of King Ernst August, 1837–51. Christopher D. Thompson. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Vφlkisch writers and National Socialism: a study of right-wing political culture in Germany, 1890–1945. Guy T. Tourlamain. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

The German army and the conduct of the defensive battle, 1918–38. Matthias Strohn. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Protestant responses to Martin Luther's Judenschriften in Germany, 1929–45. Christopher Probst. (Professor Dan Stone.) London Ph.D. 2008

The ancient past in public and private historical consciousness: national identity and middle school history education in Bavaria and East Germany, 1945–2000. Hannah Cordts von Lφwis of Menar. London Ph.D. 2008

War crimes trials between occupation and integration: the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the British zone of Germany. Claire L. Sharman. (Dr. Neil Gregor.) Southampton Ph.D. 2007

Making sense of the Germans: Britain and the German problem, 1945–8. Matthew Smith. (Dr. Rudolf Muhs.) London Ph.D. 2008

'Who is my neighbour?': immigrant politics and Cold War conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–75. Alexander Clarkson. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

The communities within: the integration of Muslim immigrants in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Bremen from the 1960s to the 1990s. Sarah E. Hackett. (Dr. L. Black and Dr. Kay Schiller.) Durham Ph.D. 2008

Key factors influencing new museum building projects in the U.K. and Germany. Susannah C. Eckersley. Newcastle upon Tyne Ph.D. 2007

Greece

The Greek world and medical tradition: healers and healing on the eve of the Greek revival (1700–1821). Christos Papadopoulos. (Professor Harold J. Cook and Dr. Andrew Wear.) London Ph.D. 2008

Journeys in the palimpsest: British women's travel to Greece, 1840–1914. Churnjeet K. Mahn. Glasgow Ph.D. 2007

Hungary

Irredentism and revisionism in Hungary, 1931–8. Eric Beckett Weaver. (Professor Robert J.W. Evans.) Oxford D.Phil. 2008

Italy

The diffusion of popular print in early 16th-century Venice. Rosa Salzberg. (Professor Kate J.P. Lowe.) London Ph.D. 2008

The paintings of Dosso Dossi: studies in the artistic currents and court culture of Renaissance Ferrara. Robert Gould Colby. (Professor Pat Rubin.) London Ph.D. 2007

Domestic devotion and the material culture of religion in post-Renaissance Florence. Caroline Anderson. (Dr. Amanda Lillie.) York Ph.D. 2008

Religion and disease in Venice, c.1620–1700. Alexandra E. Bamji. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Paradise of exiles: the Anglo-Florentine garden. Katie Campbell. Bristol Ph.D. 2007

Fascist nature: environmental policies and conflicts in Italy, 1922–45. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Pius XII: politician or pastor?. Felicity O'Brien. (Dr. Dominic Erdozain.) London Ph.D. 2008

Picturing the worker: Guttuso, Visconti, De Santis and the Partito Comunista Italiano, c.1944–53. Lara Pucci. (Professor Christopher Green.) London Ph.D. 2007

Russia and the U.S.S.R.

The Kremlin workshops of the tsars and foreign craftsmen c.1500–1711. Scott Ruby. (Professor Robin Cormack.) London Ph.D. 2008

Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611) and the writing of Russia. Felicity Stout. (Professor Michael J. Braddick.) Sheffield Ph.D. 2008

The Church of England and Russian orthodoxy: political influences and the ecumenical dialogue, 1888–1917. Jeffrey Bibbee. (Professor Arthur Burns.) London Ph.D. 2008

Vladimir Burtsev and the Russian revolutionary emigration: surveillance of foreign political refugees in London, 1891–1905. Robert Henderson. (Dr. Jon D. Smele.) London Ph.D. 2008

St. Petersburg, 1902–24: revival and retrospectivism. Mark Sutcliffe. (Professor Lindsey A. J. Hughes.) London Ph.D. 2007

Experience vs. expectation: living the myth – the Komsomol and the cultural transformation of Soviet Russia, 1917–32. Matthias Neumann. (Professor Edward D.J. Acton.) East Anglia Ph.D. 2007

Soviet trade unions during the Stalinist industrialisation, 1928–37. Jun Bae Jo. (Dr. Jeremy R. Smith and Dr. Melanie J. Ilic.) Birmingham Ph.D. 2007

Rubble to communism: the urban housing programme in the Soviet Union, 1944–64. Mark Smith. (Professor Geoffrey A. Hosking.) London Ph.D. 2008

British intelligence assessments of Soviet nuclear intentions and capabilities, 1945–75. Catherine Haddon. (Professor Peter J. Hennessy.) London Ph.D. 2008

Military-political relations in the Khrushchev era, 1953–64. Joshua Andy. (Dr. Jeremy R. Smith and Dr. Melanie Ilic.) Birmingham Ph.D. 2008

Shopping with Brezhnev: Soviet urban consumer culture, 1964–85. Natalya Chernyshova. (Dr. Stephen Lovell.) London Ph.D. 2008

MODERN BRITAIN AND IRELAND

From 1500

Precious stones in early modern Britain: society, culture and belief. Tom Blaen. (Professor Alexandra Walsham and Dr. Jonathan Barry.) Exeter Ph.D. 2008

Spatial approaches to the early modern public house. James Brown. (Dr. Beat Kόmin.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

Becoming a man: the prescriptions of manhood and manliness in early modern England. Jennifer Jordan. Nottingham Trent Ph.D. 2007

Food and dearth in early modern England: the writings of Hugh Platt. Ayesha Mukherjee. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Artist, scribe and patron: early 16th-century work in two Percy family manuscripts. Pat Naylor. (Dr. Virginia G. Davis.) London Ph.D. 2008

Renaissance diplomacy in practice: the case of Gregorio Casali, England's ambassador at the papal court, 1525–33. Catherine Fletcher. (Dr. Sandra Cavallo.) London Ph.D. 2008

Aspects of religious change, regional culture and resistance in Yorkshire c.1530–70. Emma Watson. (Dr. William J. Shiels.) York Ph.D. 2008

Gaming in England 1540–1760. Nicholas B. Tosney. (Dr. Natasha A.F. Glaisyer.) York Ph.D. 2008

The political culture of Boston, 1540–1640. Ann Carlton. (Professor Rosemary Sweet.) Leicester M.Phil. 2007

Winchester probate inventories, 1540–75. Karen Parker. (Professors Tom Beaumont James and Michael A. Hicks.) Southampton Ph.D. 2008

Sir Henry Lee (1533–1611): the life and career of an Elizabethan courtier gentleman. Susan Simpson. (Professor G.W. Bernard.) Southampton Ph.D. 2008

The Reformation in Fife, 1560–1640. John McCallum. (Professor Roger Mason.) St. Andrews Ph.D. 2008

Sex in two cities: the formation and regulation of sexual relationships in Edinburgh and York, 1560–1625. Melissa Hollander. (Dr. William J. Shiels and Dr. Mark S.R. Jenner.) York Ph.D. 2008

The gentry, the nobility and London residence, c.1580–1680. Ian Warren. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

An enigmatic persona: impressions of the character and reputation of Christopher Marlowe (1564–93) from 1585 to 2005. Roger Crawley. (Professor Michael A. Mullett.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2008

English godly art of dying manuals, c.1590–1625. Jenny Mayhew. Oxford Brookes Ph.D. 2007

From 1600

‘A perfect elysium and the residence of a divinity’: a social analysis of country houses and policies in late 17th- and 18th-century Scotland. Caroline Hale. (Professors Stephen T. Driscoll and James Macaulay.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

The commonwealthmen and the campaign for a godly commonwealth: reform, redress and obedience in mid-Tudor social and political thought. Jez Ross. (Professor Steve Hindle.) Warwick M.A. 2008

Integrating documentary and archaeological evidence for battles: a case study from 17th-century England. Glen Foard. (Dr. Robert E. Liddiard.) East Anglia M.Phil. 2008

'Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord': puritan spiritual diaries and autobiographies in 17th-century England. Claire L. Vivian. (Professor John Spurr.) Wales Ph.D. 2008

Omnia bene or ruinosa? The condition of the parish churches in and around London and Westminster c.1603–77. Valerie Hitchman. (Dr. Andrew W. Foster.) Chichester Ph.D. 2008

The challenge of Socinianism in mid 17th-century England. Sarah Mortimer. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

The life and times of Thomas Speed. Jonathan Harlow. (Dr. Madge J. Dresser and Dr. Jonathan Barry.) West of England Ph.D. 2008

Negotiating orthodoxy: parliament, toleration and godly settlement in England, 1642–9. Youngkwon Chung. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

The concept of 'port' and 'outport' re-examined: the Medina estuary, Isle of Wight, as a case study, 1650–2000. Phillip G. Wood. Southampton Ph.D. 2007

The Orders of the Garter, the Thistle, and the Bath and the formation of the British honours system, 1660–1760. Antti S. Matikkala. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Power, display and the symbolic terrains of Protestant Dublin, c.1660–1760. Robin Usher. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Concepts of royal ecclesiastical supremacy in Restoration England. Jacqueline E. Rose. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Secret history: the politics of narrative form, 1674–1725. Rebecca Bullard. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Rex vs. Rosewell, 1684: an exploration of the political, religious and social context of a trial for high treason in late-Restoration England. Sheila Seymour. (Professor Justin A.I. Champion.) London Ph.D. 2008

From 1700

Exmoor dreaming: reflections from a cultural ecology. Paul Sharman. (Dr. Catherine Brace and Dr. David Harvey.) Exeter Ph.D. 2008

The 18th-century provincial attorney-at-law in Lincolnshire. Wendy J. Atkin. (Professor John V. Beckett.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2008

Gender, national identity and political agency in 18th-century Scotland. Rosalind Carr. (Professors Lynn C. Abrams and Colin Kidd.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

'The business of engineers': the organisation and education of military engineers during the 18th century. Andrew Phillipson. (Dr. James Thomas.) Portsmouth Ph.D. 2007

London sermon culture, 1702–63. Jennifer Farooq. (Professor Stephen J.C. Taylor.) Reading Ph.D. 2008

Grub Street culture: the newspapers of Nathaniel Mist, 1716–28. Matthew T. Symonds. (Professor Julian Hoppit.) London Ph.D. 2008

Landscape, antiquity and natural history: the work of Hayman Rooke, 1723–1806. Emily Sloan. (Professors Charles Watkins and Stephen Daniels.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2008

The politics of sudden death: the office and role of the coroner in England and Wales, 1726–1888. Pamela J. Fisher. Leicester Ph.D. 2007

A crown and a cross: the origins, development and decline of the Methodist class meeting in 18th-century England. Andrew F. Goodhead. Sheffield Ph.D. 2007

Capital punishment in northern England, 1750–1900. David R. Bentley. (Dr. Malcolm S. Chase and Dr. Phil J. Withington.) Leeds M.A. 2008

Evangelicalism and enlightenment: the Moravian experience in England, c.1750–1800. Jonathan Yonan. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Disease, war and the imperial state: the health of the British armed forces during the Seven Years' War, 1756–63. Erica M. Charters. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

George Robert Fitzgerald (1748?-86) and the nature of 18th-century celebrity culture: an analysis of the language, character and representation of the late 18th-century celebrity drawn from literary sources. Yvonne Cornish. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Pre-Victorian prudery: the Family Shakespeare and the birth of Bowdlerism. Emily C.L. Burden. Birmingham M.Phil. 2007

The ironmasters, ironworks and people of the North West Monmouthshire area, 1780–1850. Thomas E. Davies. (Dr. Louise Miskell.) Wales M.Phil. 2008

Aspects of whig politics, with reference to science and the Georgic tradition, c.1790–1850. Joseph O. Bord. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

The Office of Ordnance and the arming of the Fleet in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815. Gareth Cole. (Professors Michael Duffy and Nicholas A.M. Rodger.) Exeter Ph.D. 2008

The making of Orangeism, 1795–1800. James Wilson. (Professor Sean J. Connolly.) Belfast Ph.D. 2008

From 1800

Llanwrtyd and the spa towns of mid Wales. Ann Phillips. (Professor Peter N. Borsay.) Wales M.Phil. 2008

Regulating prostitution in 19th-century Kent: beyond the Contagious Diseases Acts. Catherine Lee. (Dr. Deborah Brunton and Dr. Donna Loftus.) Open University Ph.D. 2008

Cricket's forgotten past: a social and cultural history of the game in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1820–1870. Robert F. Light. (Professor Richard Holt.) De Montfort Ph.D. 2008

Residential persistence in rural Victorian England: a comparative study of seven Kent parishes. Paul Newton-Taylor. (Professor Kevin Schόrer.) Essex Ph.D. 2008

The failure of history: 19th-century Britain's pursuit of the ancient world. Edmund M.D. Richardson. Cambridge Ph.D. 2008

Death, mourning and commemoration in 19th-century Scotland. Michael Smith. (Professor Elaine W. McFarland and Dr. Catriona M.M. Macdonald.) Glasgow Caledonian Ph.D. 2008

Business and benevolence: the East India Company's management of its London warehouse labourers, 1800–58. Margaret Makepeace. (Dr. Huw V. Bowen.) Leicester Ph.D. 2008

Commercial finance during the industrial revolution: a study of local, national and international credit, 1800–44. Mina Ishizu. (Professor Patricia Hudson.) Cardiff Ph.D. 2008

A machinery for the moral elevation of a town population': church extension in Glasgow, 1800–43. Allan G.M. Lafferty. Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

The lobbying activities of provincial mercantile and manufacturing interests against the renewal of the East India Company's charter, 1812–13 and 1829–33. Yukihisa Kumagai. (Dr. Duncan M. Ross.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

William Andrews Nesfield (1794–1881): artist and landscape gardener. Shirley R. Evans. Plymouth Ph.D. 2007

Class, nation and localism in the Northumberland art world, 1820–1939. Rachel Mumba. Durham Ph.D. 2008

Derwent Coleridge (1800–83) and the deacon schoolmaster. David Nicholas. (Dr. David Crook.) London Ph.D. 2008

Symbolist tendencies in Scottish art from 1820 to 1880. Debra Wheatley. (Dr. John C. Morrison.) Aberdeen M.Litt. 2008

York Castle: the county gaol of Yorkshire from the passing of the 1823 Gaol Act (4 Geo, IV c. 64) to the nationalisation of the prison service in 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 21). Marion Emes. (Professor Edward Royle.) York Ph.D. 2008

Timber frame construction in north-east Scotland: a century of precedent, 1830s-1930s. Iain Stevenson Bruce. Robert Gordon Ph.D. 2007

Images of politics: cartoons, caricatures and popular political images in Britain, c.1830–80. Henry Miller. (Dr. Peter P. Catterall.) London Ph.D. 2008

The development of Conservative party policy towards Ireland, 1830–5. Branwen N. Jones. Bristol M.Phil. 2007

Landowners and the Great Western Railway: a study of rural change in five rural Thameside parishes, 1831–1901. Rosemary Stewart-Beardsley. (Dr. Jeremy F.S. Burchardt and Dr. Frank Tallett.) Reading Ph.D. 2008

'What shall we do with music?': music and academia in Victorian Britain. Rosemary Golding. (Professor Katherine Ellis.) London Ph.D. 2008

The sportswoman in fiction and in fact: able-bodied womanhood in Victorian literature. Jin-ya Huang. Sussex D.Phil. 2007

Representing empathy: speaking for vulnerable bodies in Victorian medicine and culture. Kathryn Miele. (Professor Carolyn Steedman and Professor Hilary Marland.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

Railway influence in Kingston-upon-Thames: paternalism, 'welfarism' and 19th-century society, 1838–1912. Audrey Giles. (Dr. Christopher J. French and Dr. Philip Drummond-Thompson.) Kingston Ph.D. 2007

The development of the new police in the Scottish borders, c.1840–99. David Smale. (Dr. Ian L. Donnachie and Professor Clive Emsley.) Open University Ph.D. 2007

Victorian images of emigration 1840–80. Patricia Hardy. (Dr. Caroline H. Arscott.) London Ph.D. 2008

The Dublin nationalist press and the development of Irish nationalism, 1842–65. Ann Andrews. (Dr. Sally E. Warwick-Haller and Professor Peter J. Beck.) Kingston Ph.D. 2008

Older people in Scotland: the family, work and retirement and the welfare state from 1845 to 1999. Elizabeth Black. (Dr. William Knox.) St. Andrews Ph.D. 2008

The Church of England, spiritualism and ideas of the afterlife, 1850–1939. Georgina Byrne. (Professor Arthur Burns.) London Ph.D. 2008

Medicine and poverty: a study of the medical services of the Leicester Union, 1867–1914. Angela Negrine. (Professor Keith D.M. Snell.) Leicester Ph.D. 2008

Community leisure in Halifax between c.1850 and 1918. Gary Cheetham. (Professor John A. Chartres.) Leeds M.A. 2008

Street children and philanthropy in the second half of the 19th century. Barbara Daniels. (Dr. Susan Mumm and Mr. Gerald Parsons.) Open University Ph.D. 2008

The making of the civic community: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1850–1900. Kota Ito. Leicester Ph.D. 2007

Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, a biography. Maureen Wright. (Professor June Purvis.) Portsmouth Ph.D. 2008

An investigation of the impact of Darwin on his contemporaries in the fields of garden and horticultural design and of botanical representation. Philip Kerrigan. (Professor David P. Corbett.) York Ph.D. 2008

Ancient Egyptian discovery in the British imagination, 1860–1922. David J. Gange. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Play organisations and the out-of-school child in London, 1860–1914. Keith Cranwell. (Professor Gary McCulloch.) London Ph.D. 2008

Disestablishing moral science: John Neville Keynes, cultural authority and religion in Victorian England, 1860–1900. Julien G.R. Vincent. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Methodist politics in Ireland, 1861–1914. Nicola K. Morris. Liverpool Ph.D. 2007

"Suffer the little children": childhood tuberculosis in the north of Ireland, c.1865 to 1965. Susan Kelly. (Professor Greta J. Jones and Dr. Allan Blackstock.) Ulster Ph.D. 2008

The life, educational philosophy and practice of William Joseph Petre (1847–93). Stewart K. Foster. Hull Ph.D. 2007

Redistribution and the Second Reform Act: the intended, and unintended, electoral effects on the balance of the political parties. Richard D.A. Woodberry. Bristol Ph.D. 2007

The United Presbyterian church in late 19th-century Glasgow. Richard Smith. (Dr. Catriona M.M. Macdonald and Professor E.W. MacFardland.) Glasgow Caledonian M.Phil. 2008

Women, health and hospitals in Birmingham: the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, 1871–1948. Judith Lockhart. (Professor Hilary Marland.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

In public, in private: design and modernisation in the London public house, 1872–1902. F.E. Fisher. Kingston Ph.D. 2007

The deaconess movement in the Church of Scotland, c.1874–c.1948. Muriel McEwan. (Dr. Susan Mumm.) Open University Ph.D. 2008

The origins and development of Association Football in the Liverpool district, c.1875–c.1915. Tom Preston. (Professors David C. Russell and John K. Walton.) Central Lancashire Ph.D. 2007

Manufacturing childhood: the contribution of child labour to the success of the British theatrical industry, 1875–1903. Dyan Colclough. (Ms. Pat Ayers and Professor Alan Kidd.) Manchester Metropolitan Ph.D. 2008

Using bacteriology in the hospital and in society: England, 1880–1939. Rosemary B. Wall. (Dr. J. Andrew Mendelsohn.) London Ph.D. 2007

The politics of co-operation: consumer co-operative societies in Birmingham and Bristol 1880–1921. Christopher Shelley. (Dr. Andrew G. Miles.) Birmingham M.Phil. 2007

Liberal international thought in Britain, 1880–1918. Casper Sylvest. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

From persecution to mass migration: the ‘alien’ in popular print and society, 1881–1906. Greg Smart. (Professor A.R.J. (Tony) Kushner.) Southampton Ph.D. 2008

'For women, for Wales and for Liberalism': women in Liberal politics in Wales, c.1883–1914. Ursula Masson. (Professors June B. Hannam and Deirdre Beddoe.) West of England Ph.D. 2007

Prostitution in London, 1885–1930. Julia A. Laite. (Dr. Deborah Thom.) Cambridge Ph.D. 2008

Life, thought and work of Herbert Hensley Henson: establishment and disestablishment in the Church of England, 1886–1935. John Stuart Peart-Binns. (Dr. Simon J.D. Green.) Leeds Ph.D. 2008

Social and technical forces constituting the Silent Valley reservoir project: Mourne Mountains to Belfast (1893–1932). Michael Reinsborough. (Professor Peter J. Bowler.) Belfast Ph.D. 2008

From 1900

Single-issue extra-parliamentary groups and liberal internationalism, 1899–1920. Barry Dackombe. (Dr. Bernard A. Waites and Professor Antony Lentin.) Open University Ph.D. 2008

Landscapes of power: the cultural and historical geographies of renewable energy in Britain since the 1870s. Zoλ Gardner. (Professor David Matless and Dr. Susanne Seymour.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2008

Chucking buns across the fence? Governmental planning and regeneration projects in the Scottish Highland economy, 1945–82. Niall MacKenzie. (Dr. Neil Rollings and Dr. Duncan M. Ross.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2007

Causation and impact of silicosis in Scotland in the 20th century. Sue Morrison. (Dr. Ronald Johnston and Professor Elaine W. McFarland.) Glasgow Caledonian Ph.D. 2008

Respectable persuaders: the advertising industry and British society, 1900–39. Stefan Schwarzkopf. London Ph.D. 2008

'An un-English activity?' The development of art history education after Ruskin and before the Courtauld. Katsura Miyahara. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Flights of imagination: episodes in the development of the British navigable airship, 1900–30. Christopher Neilson. (Dr. Jeff A. Hughes.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

The political economics of English psychiatry in the early 20th century. Akinobu Takabayashi. (Professor Christopher J. Lawrence and Dr. Michael Neve.) London M.Phil. 2008

The Ancient Order of Hibernians: a Belfast-Liverpool comparison, c.1905–1934. Richard D. Williams. Liverpool M.Phil. 2007

Miss Semple's Influences: tracing the reception of Ellen Churchill Semple's Influences of the Geographic Environment (1911). Innes Keighren. (Professor C.W.J. Withers.) Edinburgh Ph.D. 2008

Ulster masculinity and militarisation, 1912–23. Jane G.V. McGaughey. London Ph.D. 2008

The Church of Ireland and the Third Home Rule crisis. Andrew Scholes. (Professor David W. Hayton.) Belfast Ph.D. 2008

Echoes of success: identity in the Highland regiments. Ian S. Kelly. Aberdeen Ph.D. 2007

The British Army Signal Service, 1914–18. Michael Bullock. (Dr. John M. Bourne.) Birmingham M.Phil. 2008

County Armagh and the Great War, 1914–18. James Cousins. (Professor Keith J. Jeffery.) Belfast Ph.D. 2008

Women and shell shock in the First World War. Denise Poynter. (Dr. Sally I. Sokoloff and Professor Ian F.W. Beckett.) Northampton Ph.D. 2008

The 10th (Irish) Division in the First World War. Stephen Sandford. (Professor Keith J. Jeffery.) Belfast Ph.D. 2008

The West Country and the First World War: recruits and identities. Andrew Gale. (Dr. Stephen Constantine and Dr. Alan Warburton.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2008

The British army in Ireland, 1916–21: a social and cultural history. Benjamin L. Butler. Hull Ph.D. 2007

The first Battle of Britain, 1917–18, and the origins of British air defence. Alex Hryniewicz. Birmingham M.Phil. 2007

Vessel deployment in the British short sea and coastal trades, 1918–90. John C. Golding. (Dr. David J. Starkey.) Hull Ph.D. 2008

Memory, modernity and reconstructions of identity amongst veterans of inter-war British Communist party youth politics, 1918–39/1984–5. Joseph Maslen. (Professor Penny Summerfield.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Women's organisations in Nottingham, 1918–1970s. Samantha Clements. (Professor Helen E. Meller.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2008

Estimable and gifted? Women in Scottish politics, c.1918–55. Kenneth Baxter. (Dr. William Kenefick.) Dundee Ph.D. 2008

International competition and strategic response in the Dundee jute industry during the inter-war (1919–39) and post-war (1945–60s) period: the case of Jute Industries, Buist Spinning, Craiks and Scott and Fyfe. S.K. Masrani. St. Andrews Ph.D. 2008

Orthopaedic impairment in inter-war Glasgow: pressures, paradigms and medical provision. Simon Carr. (Dr. Ronald Johnston and Professor Elaine W. McFarland.) Glasgow Caledonian Ph.D. 2008

Striving to preserve the peace! The police, campaign for civil liberties and dynamics of disorder in interwar Britain. Janet Clark. (Professor Clive Emsley and Dr. Paul Lawrence.) Open University M.Phil./Ph.D. 2007

The League of Nations Union and democratic politics in Britain between the wars. Helen McCarthy. (Professor Patricia M. Thane.) London Ph.D. 2008

'When women look their worst': women and sports participation in inter-war Scotland. Fiona Skillen. (Professor Eleanor J. Gordon and Dr. Annemarie Hughes.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

Women's organisations and feminism in inter-war Scotland. Valerie Wright. (Professor Eleanor J. Gordon and Dr. Annemarie Hughes.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

The Council of Ireland: a political and historical analysis. Albert Hughes. Belfast Ph.D. 2007

Curators, culture and conflict: understanding the effects and consequences of the Second World War on the U.K.'s museums, 1926–65. Catherine Pearson. (Dr. Suzanne Keene and Dr. David French.) London Ph.D. 2008

Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton: ’interested amateurs’?. Louise Legrand. (Dr. Charlotte Sleigh.) Kent M.A. 2008

Ernst Gombrich and the memory of Aby Warburg: emotion, identity and scholarship. Matthew E. Finch. London Ph.D. 2007

Working-class taste in 1930s Britain: a comparative study of popular film and literature. Robert James. (Professor Sue Harper.) Portsmouth Ph.D. 2008

The position, role and influence of Sir Horace Wilson during Neville Chamberlain's government, 1937–40. Adrian G. Phillips. Birmingham M.Phil. 2007

Beyond home: housewives and the nation, private and public identities 1939–49. Jennifer Purcell. (Dr. Claire L. Langhamer.) Sussex D.Phil. 2008

An 'unspectacular' war? Reconstructing the history of the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment during the Second World War. Tracy Craggs. Sheffield Ph.D. 2007

The development of Britain's airborne forces during the Second World War. John Greenacre. (Professors John Gooch and John C.R. Childs.) Leeds Ph.D. 2008

The war work of the British motor car industry during Word War II and its effects on the post-war car industry. Bruce Mann. (Professor James Tomlinson.) Dundee Ph.D. 2008

The creation and development of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit in the Second World War. Frederick McGlade. (Professor Jeffrey M. Richards.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2008

Homosexuality and military authority in the British armed forces, 1939–45. Emma Vickers. (Dr. Corinna Peniston-Bird.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2008

The idea of the West in British foreign policy discourse after 1940. Simon Tate. Newcastle upon Tyne Ph.D. 2007

The dynamics of Labour party politics in Swansea, 1941–64. Dinah Evans. (Professor Duncan Tanner.) Wales Ph.D. 2008

Urban renaissance: the meaning, management and manipulation of place, 1945–2002. Rebecca Madgin. (Dr. Prashant Kidambi.) Leicester Ph.D. 2008

The rhetoric of Americanisation: social construction of the British computer industry in the post-World War II period. Robert J. Kirkwood Reid. (Professor Raymond G. Stokes and Dr. Neil Rollings.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

Representations of masculine failure in British pedagogical writings, 1945–90. Naomi Breen. (Professor Bertrand O. Taithe and Dr. Julie-Marie Strange.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

The village of secrets: Whitehall and official secrecy, 1945–79. Christopher Moran. (Dr. Patrick N. Major.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

The eclipse of 'elegant economy': post-war changes in attitudes to personal finance in Britain. Martin Cohen. (Dr. Peter P. Catterall.) London M.Phil. 2008

The identity of the British Liberal Party, 1945–62. Matthew Cole. (Dr. Nicholas J. Crowson.) Birmingham Ph.D. 2006

An investigation into the nature and causes of Anglican conversions to the Roman Catholic church in England, 1950–2000. Richard Ormrod. (Professor D. Hugh McLeod.) Birmingham Ph.D. 2008

Imagining Wales: political and civil reactions to the modernisation of Welsh society, 1950–70. (Dychmygu Cymru: ymatebion gwleidyddol a sifil I foderneiddiad y gymdeithas gymreig, 1950–70.) (In Welsh medium.). Mari E. Wiliam. (Professor Duncan Tanner and Dr. W. P. Griffith.) Wales Ph.D. 2008

Traditions and transitions: St. Martin's sculpture department, 1952–79. Hester R. Westley. (Dr. Sarah Wilson.) London Ph.D. 2007

Eating into Jewishness: food and Jewish identities in Britain 1955–2005. Jane Gerson. (Professor A.R.J. (Tony) Kushner.) Southampton Ph.D. 2008

'To show where I came from': music and identity in south Wales, c.1958–2000. Rebecca J. Edwards. (Professor Chris M. Williams.) Wales Ph.D. 2008

Oxfam and the rise of development education in England, 1959–79. Don Harrison. (Professor Gary McCulloch.) London Ph.D. 2008

The Wilson government of 1964–70 and the re-defining of Britain's world role: the abandonment of a maritime foreign and defence policy?. Edward Hampshire. (Dr. Joseph Maiolo and Professor Ken Young.) London Ph.D. 2008

The British government and Ulster Unionism, 1969–74. Andrew Ledger. (Professor Richard C. Whiting.) Leeds M.A. 2008

Masculinity and the miners' strike, 1984–5. Steffan Morgan. (Professor Chris M. Williams.) Wales Ph.D. 2008

The transition from conflict to post-conflict: the role of the democratic peace in the policies of presidents Clinton and Bush in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Matthew Hill. (Professor Alan Sharp, Dr. David W. Roberts and Dr. Leonie Murray.) Ulster Ph.D. 2008

Winning the peace in Northern Ireland: political parties and the implementation of the 1998 agreement. David Mitchell. (Professor Paul Arthur and Dr. P. Emmet J. O'Connor.) Ulster Ph.D. 2008

INTERNATIONAL HISTORY

The international legal legitimacy of non-state belligerent actors from the peace of Westphalia to the present. Jacob H. Hupart. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Anglican church expansion and colonial reform politics in India, New South Wales and the Cape Colony, c.1790–1850. Joseph Hardwick. (Professor Miles Taylor.) York Ph.D. 2008

Mission from the margin: a critical analysis of the participation of West Indians as agents of Christian mission in the western missionary enterprise in Africa in the 19th century, with special reference to their conception of Christian mission. L.G. Newman. Wales Ph.D. 2007

The construction of scientific knowledge regarding female 'sexuality inversion': Italian, English and American psychiatry compared. Chiara Beccalossi. (Professor Daniel M. Pick.) London Ph.D. 2008

The second age of steel: the era of alloy steels, 1858–1914. A.W. Morris. Exeter Ph.D. 2007

'Weakness, expansion and 'disobedience': the beginning of Russian expansion into the heart of central Asia, 1864–5. Matthew C. Jamison. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

'Everything begins to recede?' Women journeying abroad, 1870–1940. Emma Robinson. (Dr. Alex Windscheffel.) London Ph.D. 2008

The strategic origins of the British occupation of Cyprus and its role during the Arabi revolt and the resulting Egyptian campaign, 1876–82. Maria Panayiotou. Birmingham M.Phil. 2007

The internationalisation of colonial problems, 1900–39. Miguel Jeronimo. (Professor Andrew N. Porter.) London M.Phil. 2008

Punishing international aggression: American responses to the outlaw state and aggressive war, 1914–46. Binoy Kampmark. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

War and collective memory: American military commemoration in Britain and France, 1943 to the present. Sam Edwards. (Dr. Stephen Constantine and Dr. Patrick Hagopian.) Lancaster Ph.D. 2008

International sisterhood? International women's organisations and co-operation in the inter-war period. Marie Sandell. (Dr. Sarah F.D. Ansari.) London Ph.D. 2008

Fascist Italy and the Middle East, 1935–40. Nir Arielli. (Professor John Gooch.) Leeds Ph.D. 2008

The clash of empires: Anglo-Italian relations in the Middle East and the origins of the Second World War, 1935–40. Massimiliano Fiore. (Dr. Joseph Maiolo and Dr. Alan James.) London Ph.D. 2008

French memory of the occupation and the Algerian War: construction, evolution and significance from 1945 to the present day. Vanessa Mievelle-Smith. (Professor Pamela M. Pilbeam.) London M.Phil. 2008

Operational rations and Anglo-American long-range infantry in Burma, 1942–4: a subcultural study of combat feeding. Rachel S. Johnstone. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Rational choice theory in history: shed light on Gallipoli and Operation 'Torch'?. Stephanie Jelks. (Professor John D. Charmley.) East Anglia Ph.D. 2008

Inter-Allied relations and the German problem, 1944–9. Nick Lewkowicz. (Professor John W. Young and Dr. Spencer W. Mawby.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2008

Post-colonial transition, aid and the Cold War in South-East Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948–62. M. Foley. Nottingham Ph.D. 2007

Internationalising Tibet at the United Nations, 1950–2005. Aarti Anhal. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Outsiders or insiders? The role of the individual in the development of environmental movements. Timothy Fletcher. (Professor John A. Turner.) London M.Phil. 2008

The unspoken alliance: Israel and apartheid South Africa, 1960–94. Sasha Polakow-Suransky. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Thailand and the American secret war in Indochina, 1960–74. Sutayut Osornprasop. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Anglo-American relations with South Asia under the Kennedy and Macmillan governments, 1961–1963. Paul McGarr. (Dr. Matthew Jones.) London Ph.D. 2008

The Saudi-U.S. strategic relationship, 1962–2006. Naif Bin Hethlain. Exeter Ph.D. 2007

The rules of the game: Allende's Chile, the United States and Cuba, 1970–3. Tanya Harmer. (Professor O. Arne Westad.) London Ph.D. 2008

Moral diplomacy and the trade negotiations between the Commonwealth Caribbean states and the European Community, 1972–92. Dawn N. Corrie-Kordas. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

America, Britain and the Cyprus crisis of 1974: calculated conspiracy or foreign policy failure?. Andreas Constandinos. (Dr. Lawrence J. Butler.) East Anglia M.Phil. 2008

Agriculture and trade conflicts between the European Union and the United States in the G.A.T.T. Uruguay round. Guiseppe La Barca. (Dr. Bernard P. Attard.) Leicester Ph.D. 2008

AFRICA

Masters of difference: creolisation and the Jewish presence in Cabo Verde, 1497–1672. Tobias O.R. Green. Birmingham Ph.D. 2007

Change in the public space of traditional Hausa cities: a study of Zaria, 1804–2004 A.D. Shaibu B. Garba. Newcastle upon Tyne Ph.D. 2007

The Creole elite and the rise of Angolan proto-nationalism, 1870–1920. Jacopo Corrado. Essex Ph.D. 2007

An economic history of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, 1895–2004: land, labour, capital and enterprise. Ayowa O. Afrifa Taylor. London Ph.D. 2007

Tying and untying the knot: Kadhi's courts and the negotiation of social status in Zanzibar, 1900–63. Elke E. Stockreiter. (Dr. Marie Miran.) London Ph.D. 2008

Medical technologies in the campaign against tuberculosis, Glasgow and Cape Town, 1910–74. Fiona Kilpatrick. (Professor Michael Worboys.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Constructing imperial mindsets: race and developing in Britain's inter-war African colonial administration. Christopher M. Prior. (Dr. J. Willis and Professor Michael C. Prestwich.) Durham Ph.D. 2007

The South African liberation movements in exile, c.1950–70. Arianna A. Lissoni. (Dr. Wayne L. Dooling.) London Ph.D. 2008

To be a moudjahida in independent Algeria: itineraries and memories of women veterans of the War of Independence, 1954–62. Natalya Vince. (Professor Julian T. Jackson.) London Ph.D. 2008

The Anti-Apartheid Movement (A.A.M.) in Britain and support for the African National Congress (A.N.C.), 1976–90. Genevieve L. Klein. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES

General

Equivocal engagement: Kissinger, Silveira and the politics of U.S.-Brazil relations, 1969–83. Matias Spektor. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Colonial America and the U.S.A.

The evolution of sport and recreation in early South Carolina and Georgia. William Hunt Boulware. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

'What news?' Newspapers and their readers in 18th-century Britain and America. Uriel Heyd. (Professor Penelope J. Corfield.) London Ph.D. 2008

Restoring Primitive Christianity: John Wesley and Georgia, 1735–7. Geordan Hammond. (Dr. Jeremy Gregory and Dr. Peter Nockles.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

Religious thought after the period of revivalism in 18th-century New England, c.1739–1800. Michael C. Atkinson. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Congregational separatism and the development of Separate-Baptist ecclesiology in New England, 1745–1833: with a view toward demonstrating the factors why the Separate Baptists in New England did not develop a theologically functional universal-church concept. Bruce Snavely. Bristol Ph.D. 2008

'As you see it so it was'? Reconstructing historic built environments in the U.S.A.: the case of sites associated with George Washington. Esther White. (Professor Marilyn Palmer and Dr. Simon James.) Leicester Ph.D. 2008

English and American religious and social movements, 1770–1870. Louis Billington. (Dr. Jenel Virden.) Hull Ph.D. 2008

Myth and reality of the American frontier: visions of landscape and future in the Northwest Territory. Frazer D. McGlinchey. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Slaveholding Unionists – a contradiction in terms? An examination of border state identity in the American Civil War. Gary Smith. (Dr. Anthony W. Parker.) Dundee Ph.D. 2008

'Possessing slaves': ownership, compensation and metropolitan society at the time of emancipation. Nicholas A. Draper. (Professor Catherine M. Hall.) London Ph.D. 2008

Thermopolis: technology, modernity and the design of urban space in New York City. David Gissen. (Professor Matthew Gandy.) London Ph.D. 2008

Women's interaction with Hollywood film culture in the first half of the 20th century: film magazines and the female viewing position. Dolores B. de Sade. (Dr. Joanna C. de Groot.) York M.Phil. 2008

Picturing Pennsylvania Station: visualising a New York City landmark, 1903–2006. Robert Ellis. Nottingham Ph.D. 2007

Everyday Klansfolk: white Protestant life and the K.K.K. in 1920s Michigan. Craig Fox. (Professors David Howell and Alan I. Forrest.) York Ph.D. 2008

The special relationship under Nixon, 1969–74. Alex Spelling. (Professor John W. Young.) Nottingham Ph.D. 2008

The policy of the Heath government towards the United States. Neil Diamond. Leeds Ph.D. 2007

West Indies and Caribbean area

Material geographies of the colonial everyday: diasporic food cultures and the production of the early modern Francophone Caribbean. Bertie Mandelblatt. (Professor P. Crang.) London Ph.D. 2008

Gender and the management of Jamaican sugar estates, 1750–1842. Sasha D. Turner. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Economic growth in a slave plantation society: the case of Jamaica, 1750–1805. Ahmed Reid. (Professors Michael Turner and David Richardson.) Hull Ph.D. 2007

The masses: Jamaica's poor in the nineteenth century (1830–60). Daive Dunkley. (Professor Gad Heuman.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

Youth culture and the politics of youth in 1960s Cuba. A. Luke. Wolverhampton Ph.D. 2007

Central and Latin America

Antisuyu: an investigation of Inca attitudes to their western Amazonian territories. Cristiana B. Martins. Essex Ph.D. 2007

Colonising science: nature and nations in the Spanish world, c.1750–1850. Helen Cowie. (Professor Anthony McFarlane.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

British exports of woollens to Argentina and Chile: its impact on the native economies, 1810s-70s. Manuel Llorca. (Professor Philip L. Cottrell.) Leicester Ph.D. 2008

Belize's road to independence: decolonisation by internationalisation. Assad Shoman. (Professor James Dunkerley.) London Ph.D. 2008

ASIA

General

Barbarians in the south: China's Vietnam policy, 1966–73. Christopher Connolly. (Professor O. Arne Westad.) London Ph.D. 2008

Middle East

Zosimus Arabus: the reception of Zosimus of Panopolis in the Arabic/Islamic world. Benjamin Hallum. (Professor Charles S.F. Burnett.) London Ph.D. 2008

A social history of the 'Alid family from the 8th to the 11th century. Teresa Bernheimer. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

On the margins of Sira: Mughultai (689–762/1290–1361) and his place in the development of Sira literature. Gurdofarid Miskinzoda. (Professor Gerald R. Hawting.) London Ph.D. 2007

Faces in the crowd: urban protest in late medieval Egypt and Syria. Amina Elbendary. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Sa’id al-Shartuni: a humanist of the Arab renaissance. Abdulrazzak Patel. Exeter Ph.D. 2007

Jerusalem in the First World War: transitions from Ottoman to British rule. Roberto Mazza. (Dr. Nelida Fuccaro.) London Ph.D. 2008

British intelligence in the Middle East, 1939–46. Adam B. Shelley. Cambridge Ph.D. 2008

An assessment of Menachem Begin's political role in Palestine, 1943–48. Jacqueline Madill. (Professor Vanessa A. Martin.) London Ph.D. 2008

Leadership in the national movements of Egypt and Iraq, 1945–63. R. Anne Alexander. Exeter Ph.D. 2007

Central Asia

Administration and law in the Tibetan empire: the Section on Law and State and its Old Tibetan antecedents. Brandon Dotson. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Perception of Chinese religions in 18th-century Tibet: a study of Thu’u-bkwan's Grub-mtha’ shel-gyi me-long and related Tibetan works written by Mongol authors. Guilaine Mala. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

India and Pakistan

Daughters of the lesser God: Dalit women's education in postcolonial Pune. Shailaja Paik. (Professor David Hardiman and Dr. Sarah Hodges.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

State, Christianity and the public sphere in India, 1830–1950. Nandini Chatterjee. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

The idea of the 'tribal' in British India: law, archive and memory in Santal Parganas. Aishwary Kumar. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

The rise of the British managing agencies in north-eastern India 1836–1918. Michael G. Manton. London M.Phil. 2008

Contesting respectability: sexuality, corporeality and non-'Bhadra' cultures in colonial Bengal. Bidisha Ray. (Dr. Anindita Ghosh.) Manchester Ph.D. 2008

The Shi'a Muslims of the United Provinces of India, c.1890–1940. Justin R. Jones. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

British planning for the defence of India. Benjamin T. Gillon. (Dr. Simon J. Ball and Dr. Phillips P. O'Brien.) Glasgow Ph.D. 2008

Between rhetoric and activism: Marxism and feminism in the All India Democratic Women's Association, 1981–2006. Susanne Kranz. (Dr. William R. Gould and Professor Katrina Honeyman.) Leeds Ph.D. 2008

Far East, East Indies and Philippines

Colonial musical culture in early modern Manila. David R.M. Irving. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

China, Hong Kong and Korea

From smokers to addicts: a history of opium and its users in Taiwan. Hung Bin Hsu. London Ph.D. 2008

Empire careers: the foreign staff of the Chinese Customs Service, 1854–1949. Catherine Ladds. Bristol Ph.D. 2007

From Honto Jin to Bensheng Ren – the origin and development of Taiwanese national consciousness: based on the examination of two diaries (1920–55). Shih-jung Tzeng. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Japan

Japanese piracy and the development of lineage society in coastal Zhejiang during the mid 16th century. Ivy M. Lim. Oxford D.Phil. 2007

Technological choices in the rise of the Meiji cotton-spinning industry, c.1870–1900. Eugene K. Choi. Cambridge Ph.D. 2007

Contested space: a genealogy of Meiji shrine, 1912–58. Yoshiko Imaizumi. London Ph.D. 2007

AUSTRALASIA AND PACIFIC OCEAN

Disease at sea: convicts, emigrants, ships and the ocean in the voyage to Australia, c.1830–60. Katherine Foxhall. (Professor Margot Finn and Dr. Sarah Hodges.) Warwick Ph.D. 2008

George Henry Haydon (1822–91): an Anglo-Australian life. Katharine R. Haydon. London Ph.D. 2008

Little gems or tough nuggets: children, the hidden treasures of the Australian goldfields. Rowena Altheer. London M.Phil. 2007

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