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Maria Awan
Research Topic: A Discourse of Sympathy: Syed Ahmed Khan as Navigator of Feeling in Colonial India
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Sahin Baykal
Research Topic: Ibn Ḥazm’s literalism and his concept of Islamic Legal Theory
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Eliot Benbow
Research Topic: The Shrine and the Market Place: Religious Materiality in London during the Long Fifteenth Century (1370-1530)
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Laura Blair
Research Topic: ‘Library as Laboratory’: Moral Treatment, Patient Libraries and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Asylums
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Conor Bollins
Research Topic: The Eighteenth-Century Population Debate in Relation to Theories of Social and Political Stability
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Adam Boon
Research Topic: ‘Gentle in manner, strong in deed’: Evaluating Eisenhower’s Presidential Leadership of U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union
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Ed Brooker
Research Topic: Happiness, emotional well-being, and the urban ideal in late Victorian London
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Julie Bungey
Research Topic: Ladies, Lordships and Losses; The lives of three generations of aristocratic women in the fifteenth century: Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury, Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings and Cecily Bonville, Marchioness of Dorset.
Supervisor: Dr Anna Chrysostomides
Supervisor: Professor Virginia Davis
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Hillary Burlock
Research Topic: Politics and Pirouettes: the intersection of politics and social dance in late Georgian Britain
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Edward Caddy
Research Topic: The Crusade Vow in Context: Origins and Evolution, c.1050-1215
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Robin Carlile
Research Topic: The ‘journées’ of Germinal and Prairial in the Year 3: origins, participation and repression
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Helen Carr
Research Topic: The People of the Plague: The Emotional Impact of Recurrent Black Death in the Late Fourteenth Century
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Connor Clayton
Research Topic: An analysis of the role of emotion in political and social mobilisation, through a case study of People’s Temple 1955-78.
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Lisa Di Crescenzo
Research Topic: Letters, Lineage and the Life Cycle in Exilic Experience: The Vernacular-Authored Correspondence of Luisa Donati Strozzi (1434-1510)
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Sarah Drew
Research Topic: Varium et Mutabile Semper Femina: Therapies for the treatment of menstrual mood disorders in the 1930s
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Katie Ebner Landy
Research Topic: The early-modern reception of Theophrastus's "Characters"
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Edgar Gerrard Hughes
Research Topic: Conceptions of grief and grieving in 19th-century Britain
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Marie Giraud
Research Topic: Jansenism, religious art and women in early 18th-century Paris
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Jenny Grant
Research Topic: Coalition and Culture Shock: The Experience of the Polish Armed Forces in Britain, 1939-46
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Giuseppe Grieco
Research Topic: British imperialism and Southern liberalism: the quest for a Mediterranean order 1790s-1850s
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Cécile J. Esther Guigui
Research Topic: Algerian Jewish Women and Photography
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Belinda Guthrie
Research Topic: 'There's no room for the perfect knight in Jerusalem': The Portrayal of Knights during the Era of the Crusades
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Carmel Heeley
Research Topic: The Germans, the Jews and the Alps: How Moral Values, Bavarian Traditions and Sport were central to German self-understanding and German-Jewish claims to ‘belonging’ between 1920-1950
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Hayley Kavanagh
Research Topic: Joy, laughter and radical happiness in the British Women's Liberation Movement 1960s-1980s
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David Klemperer
Research Topic: The Ideological Crisis of French Socialism, c.1930 – c.1950
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Richard Knight
Research Topic: The case for the South: pro-Confederate arguments in Britain during the American Civil War
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Gabriel Lawson
Research Topic: ‘Barbed Wire Disease’: Psychological resilience and Breakdown in Prisoners of War and Internees, 1939-1950 (Principal’s Studentship)
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Gary Lawson
Research Topic: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko - Political Revolutionary or Healthcare Evangelist?
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David Lawton
Research Topic: ‘Euroscepticism in Britain from the 1970s to the 1990s’ (BMBF-funded PhD studentship)
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Cathleen Mair
Research Topic: Passions, politics and piety in the thought and networks of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine de Staël, 1785-1800.
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Jane Metter
Research Topic: Rescue and Resistance? Memorialising the Second World War and the Shaping of Regional Identity in the Haute-Savoie, 1944–2014
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Francis Mikus
Research Topic: The road to an integrated homosexuality? A comparative historical study of civil unions and same-sex marriage in France and the United Kingdom
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Alycen Mitchell
Research Topic: Sotheby’s and Christie’s rise to international pre-eminence 1956-2006
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Rebecca Morrison
Research Topic: The Rise of the Mantua Maker in 18th-Century England
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Atlanta Rae Neudorf
Research Topic: Temporality and Revolution in Exile: The Political Thought of Félix Pyat, 1849-1871
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Steven Perkins
Research Topic: The Domestic Presidency of Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
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Jenny Pistella
Research Topic: Haunted by the past: ghost hunters, heritage tourism and emotions in England in the interwar years 1918 - 1939
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Gabrielle Schwarzmann
Research Topic: Fear, shame, and trauma: emotional experience and sexual violence in late medieval England
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Muhammad Shaaban
Research Topic: Political and economic functions of endowments (awqāf) in Mamluk Cairo
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Connie Thomas
Research Topic: The Emergence of Federal Migration Politics and Policy in the United States, c.1776-1802
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Ninfeng Wang
Research Topic: Black African children in Early Modern English prints and archives, 1500-1700
Supervisor: Professor Miri Rubin
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Will Watson
Research Topic: Fear and Anger: The Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland, 1963 - 1972
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Sophie Wilson
Research Topic: Race, Judaism and the British Women's Suffrage Movement c.1860-1918
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Olivia Wyatt
Research Topic: "If You're Brown, You Can Stick Around": Complexions in Black Britain, c.1930-85.
Supervisor: Dr Leslie James
Supervisor: Professor Kim A. Wagner
Supervisor: Dr Rob Waters