Former PhD Students
Please find below former PhD students of the Warwick University History Department from 2006 onwards, listed alphabetically by surname. Please note that the ePortfolios of these former students are not usually maintained after the award of their PhD.
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- Aguilar-Gonzalez, Ricardo
Dr Ricardo Aguilar-GonzalezThesis: Sustenance: a history of foods, drinks and bodies in the colonisation of Mesoamerica, 1475-1600
Supervisors: Professor Rebecca Earle
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1763811- Allwright, Lucy
Thesis: The War on London: Defending the City From the War in the Air, 1932-1943
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2012
ePortfolio:
- Andrews, Emily
Thesis: Senility Before Alzheimer: Old Age in British Psychiatry, c.1835-1912
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2014
ePortfolio:
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- Baker, Tabitha
Thesis: The Embroidery Trade in 18th Century France
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2019
ePortfolio:
- Bates, Stephen
Thesis: Reimagining the Virgin Mary in Reformation England
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2014
ePortfolio:
- Beck, David
Thesis: Thoroughly English: County Natural History, c.1660-1720
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2013
ePortfolio:
- Bennett, Melissa
Thesis: Picturing the West India Regiments in an Age of Unrest, Civil War and Tourism, c.1850-1914
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2019
ePortfolios:
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- Biswas, Somak
Dr Somak BiswasThesis: Intimacies and Interdiscursivities: Transnational Cultural Politics in Colonial India, 1890-1945
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1559180- Boender, Niels
Dr Niels Boender
Thesis: Coercive Reconciliation, Decolonisation, and the Local Politics of Central Kenya, 1956-69
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Branch and Professor David Anderson
Award date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/nielsboender- Botcherby, Pierre
Dr Pierre BotcherbyThesis: Community, de-industrialisation, and post-industrial regeneration in a Merseyside town: St. Helens, 1968-2018
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2022
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1103101- Bowman, Jack
Dr Jack BowmanThesis: Pan-African Print, Politics in Action: A Book History of the Pan-African Movement, 1930-1950
Supervisors: Dr James Poskett and Professor Daniel Branch
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1850906
- Branch, Laura
Thesis: Faith and Fraternity: The London Livery Companies and the Reformation c.1510-c.1600
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
- Bray, Thomas
Thesis: In the gaps and on the margins: social work in England, 1940-1970
Supervisor:
Award date: 2016
ePortfolio:
- Briggs, Linda
Thesis: Representations of the Monarchy and Peace-Making in the Royal Tour of France, 1564-1566
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2014
ePortfolio:
- Bruzzone, Anna
Dr Anna BruzzoneThesis: Colonialisms, markets and power: a transnational approach to state formation in the Somalia-Kenya borderlands, c. 1925-1963
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio:
- Burchell, Andrew
Thesis: 'Violence, Mental Health and the British schoolchild'
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2019
ePortfolio:
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- Challoner, Adam
Dr Adam ChallonerThesis: A Reading People: The Sectional Crisis and the Common Reader in the Antebellum South
Supervisor: Professor Tim Lockley
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1864719
- Chen, Qing
Dr Qing Chen
Thesis: Sino-British Relations And Interactions, British Empire And Commercial Chamber In Modern China
Supervisors: Dr Song-Chuan Chen and Dr James PoskettAward Date: 2026
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/qingchen/- Chen, Qiuyang
Dr Qiuyang ChenThesis: Rural Women and Private Credit
Supervisor: Dr Song-Chuan Chen & Dr Laura Schwartz
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1896220
- Chick, Joseph
Dr Joseph ChickThesis: Cloisters and Clothiers: The Social Impact of Reading's Transition from Monastic Lordship to Self-Governance, 1350-1600
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2021
ePortfolio:
- Chou, Shengfang
Dr Shengfang ChouThesis: Late Qing China and the British World: Space, Body and the Image of Empire 1840-1920
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2019
ePortfolio:
- Cox, Natalie
Thesis: Armchair geography: Speculation, synthesis and the culture of British exploration, c.1830-1880
Supervisors: and Dr Catherine South
Award Date: 2017
ePortfolio:- Crane, Jennifer
Thesis: The expertise of experience: representative associations and child abuse, 1974-2015
Supervisor:
Award date: 2016
ePortfolio:- Creed, Fabiola
Thesis: Advertising, stereotypes, and "addiction" : understanding sunbed representation in England, 1970s-1990s
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio:
- Cutmore, Martyn
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Thesis: Puritanism, Emotion and Moderation, Samuel Clarke (1599-1682): The Shaping and Moderation of Emotion in 17th Century Puritan Culture
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2019
ePortfolio:
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- Davies, Tim
Thesis: British Private Trade Networks in the Arabian Seas, c.1680-c.1760
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2013
ePortfolio:
- Dennett, Hannah
Dr Hannah Dennett
Thesis: 鈥淔orgotten Foundlings鈥�: Black Lives and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital
Supervisor: Professor Maxine Berg and Professor Rebecca Earle
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1966016- Doddington, David
Thesis: Hierarchies and Honour among Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2013
ePortfolio:
- Duché, Elodie
Thesis: A passage to imprisonment: British prisoners of war in Verdun under the First French Empire
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2015
ePortfolio:
- Duncan, Josette
Thesis: Health, Dominion and the Mediterranean: Colonial Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Malta, Cyprus and the Ionian Islands
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2014
ePortfolio:
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- Egan, Elizabeth
Dr Elizabeth EganThesis: 鈥楤ackra Country鈥�: Creole Whiteness in Jamaica, 1865-1938
Supervisor: Professor David Lambert and
Award date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1991073
- Eissa-Barroso, Francisco
Thesis: Politics, political culture and policy making: the reform of viceregal rule in the Spanish world under Philip V (1700-1746)
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
- Elliott, Jack
Thesis: Communicating Advanced Nationalist Identity in Dublin, 1890-1917
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2013
ePortfolio:
- Etayo, Oihane
Dr Oihane EtayoThesis: Of Shawls, Hammers, and Bread: Situating Women鈥檚 Activist Practices in Britain c. 1850s-1910
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Richardson & Professor Noortje Marres
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1897977
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- Fletcher, David
Thesis: Religion and Restoration drama: the new plays of 1660-1720
Supervisor: and Dr David Taylor
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio:
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- Gallwey, April
Thesis: Lone Motherhood in England, 1945-1990: Economy, Agency and Identity
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2012
ePortfolio:
- Galvin-Elliott, Amy
Thesis: From Suffragette to Citizen: An exploration of female influence in patriarchal political spaces in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Supervisor: andAward Date: 2021
ePortfolio:- Geraghty, Erin
Dr Erin Geraghty
Thesis: Transnational Feminists in Ireland 1900-1921: Imperial mentality or internationalist solidarity?
Supervisor: Dr Laura SchwartzLink opens in a new window
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1966581Link opens in a new window- Gettings, Daniel
Dr Daniel GettingsThesis: Sustaining Body and Soul: The Early Modern English and their water, 1550 - 1750
Supervisor: Professor Beat Kumin
Award date: 2025
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/danielgettings
- G贸mez Baeza, Nicol谩s
Dr Nicol谩s G贸mez BaezaThesis: Managers from the British World: imperial trajectories and labour regimes in the sheep farming industry of Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (1858-1964)
Supervisor: Dr Camillia Cowling and Dr Robert Fletcher
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/nicolasgomezbaeza/- Gray, Aleema
Dr Aleema GrayThesis: Bun Babylon: A community-engaged history of the Rastafari movement in Britain
Supervisor: Professor David Lambert & Dr Meleisa Ono-George
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/aleemagray
- Greenway, Sophie
Dr Sophie GreenwayThesis: Growing well: Dirt, health and the home gardener in Britain, 1930-60
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2022
ePortfolio:- Guthrie, Sofia
Dr Sofia GuthrieThesis: "Antoine de Garissoles' Adolphid (1649), a Huguenot Latin epic: An edited text, translation and historical commentary"
Supervisor: &
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/clrhag/
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- Hailwood, Mark
Thesis: Alehouses and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century England
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
Thesis: Dialogue, democracy and the public sphere in the seventeenth and eighteenth centurySupervisor:Award date: 2016
ePortfolio:- Hamoud, Samir
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Dr Samir HamdoudThesis: Young People and Disability: Medical Science, Education and Care at the Royal Albert Asylum, 1870 - 1920
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Marland
Award Date: 2025
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1866443 - Hand, Jane
Thesis: Visualising Food as a Modern Medicine: Gender, the Body and Health Education in Britain, 1940-1992
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2015
ePortfolio:
- Hanley-Smith, Natalie
Thesis: The Menage 脿 trois and other unconventional relationships, c1780-1830
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio:
- He, Cheng
- Dr Cheng He
Thesis: Understanding the Evolution of Lacquer: The Transformation of an Unknown Substance in Early Modern Britain 1500-1700
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1757471
- Hitchcock, David
Thesis: The Experience and Construction of the Vagabond in England, 1650-1750
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2013
ePortfolio:
- Hughes, Celia
Thesis: The socio-cultural milieux of the post-war British Left
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
- Huxford, Grace
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Thesis: Thinking Soldiers: the Construction of Subjectivity in the Era of the Korean War
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2015
ePortfolio:
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- Knox, Imogen
Dr Imogen KnoxThesis: Self-destructive desires and the supernatural in early modern Britain
Supervisor: Professor Peter Marshall & Dr Naomi Pullin
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/imogenknox/
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- Legnini, Jessica
Thesis: Identity, Class and Emulation: American Blackface Minstrelsy and its British Audiences, 1843-1847
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
- Liu, Jiaqi
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Dr Jiaqi LiuThesis: Ritual and Power: The Changing Designs of State Ritual Paraphernalia in the Song Empire (960-1279)
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen
Award Date: 2025
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/1990450/
Thesis: Revolutionary Debts: Governing Finance in the French Revolution
Supervisor: Dr Charles Walton
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio:
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- Mahoney, Kate
Dr Kate MahoneyThesis: "Finding Our Own Solutions": The Women's Liberation Movement and Mental Health Provision in Post-War England
Supervisors: , , andAward Date: 2018
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/hyrnad/
- Ma, Jinping
Dr Jinping MaThesis: Mind, Nation and Medicine: Mental Health Care in Republican Shanghai
Supervisors: and Professor Anne Gerritsen
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1458546- Markiewicz, Emma
Thesis: Hair, wigs and wig making in the eighteenth century
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2015
ePortfolio:
- Martin, Fleur
Dr Fleur MartinThesis: Looting, Trade and The Gift: Imperial Collecting in Eastern Africa, c. 1860-1914
Supervisor: Professor David AndersonAward Date: 2026
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/fleurmartin/
- Molenaar, Sander
Dr Sander MolenaarThesis: Society in a State of Disorder: Coastal Violence in South China During the Mid-Ming Period, ca. 1450-1600.
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1863755/
- Moore, Martin
Thesis: A Question of Control?: Managing Diabetes and its Professionals in Britain, 1910-1994
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2014
ePortfolio:
- Morgan, John
Thesis: Flooding in early modern England: cultures of coping in Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire
Supervisor:Award date: 2016
ePortfolio:
- Morgan, Louise
Dr Louise MorganThesis: Eat Better, Not Less: Contextualising Clean Eating in Contemporary British History
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Marland
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1865488/
- Morton, Rachael
Dr Rachael MortonThesis: The Making and Possessing of Quality: The Metalware Trades in England, c.1675-1785
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2017
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/hyrnal/- Morton, Tara
Dr Tara Morton
Thesis: Redrawing Boundaries: Suffrage Artists, Spatiality, Gender and Power.
Supervisor: Prof Sarah Richardson
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u0558548
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- Nelson, Katie
Thesis: Thomas Whythorne and Tudor Musicians
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
- Nicholls, Angela
Thesis: Early Modern English Almshouses in the Mixed Economy of Welfare c.1550-1725
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2014
ePortfolio:
- Nicoll, David
Thesis: The relationship between the French Reformed nobility and pastors in the French Midi (1555-1598)
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio:
- Ni, Leiyun
Dr Leiyun NiThesis: Food and Drink as Negotiation Sites: Sino-Western Encounters in Canton and Macao, ca. 1700-1845
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen & Dr Song-Chuan Chen
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1892888/
- Noble, Rebecca
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Thesis: Madness and governance in Bourbon Mexico, 1713-1821
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2018
ePortfolio:
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- Oswald, Ute
Dr Ute OswaldThesis: Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century Asylums
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio:
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- Palfreyman, Harriet
Thesis: Visualising Venereal Disease in London c.1780–1860
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2012
ePortfolio:
- Patel, Joshua
Dr Joshua PatelThesis: Imagining the role of the student in society : ideas of British higher education policy and pedagogy 1957-1972
Supervisors: &
Award Date: 2022
Eportfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/hyunfw- Plath, Lydia
Dr Lydia PlathThesis: Honour and Violence in the Mississippi Slave Insurrection Scare of 1835
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2009
Staff Page: /fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/plath
- Price, Jenny
Thesis: Democratization in Eastern Germany 1989-1994
Supervisors: and Professor Jan Palmoski
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio:- Pullin, Naomi
Dr Naomi PullinThesis: Female Friends and the Transatlantic Quaker Community: 'the whole Family and Household of faith', c.1650-c.1750
Supervisor: and Professor Bernard Capp
Award Date: 2014
Staff Page: /fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/pullin
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- Qing, Qianwen
Dr Qianwen QingThesis: Scandal in the Caribbean, 1680-1720
Supervisor:Award Date: 2022
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1764733/- Quinn, Serin
Dr Serin QuinnThesis: From Xitomatl to love apple: the introduction of the tomato to England, c. 1500-1800
Supervisor: Professor Beat Kumin and Professor Rebecca Earle
Award Date: 2025
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/serinquinn
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- Rautenberg, Uta
Thesis: Homophobia in the Nazi Camps
Supervisors: andAward Date: 2022
ePortfolio:- Redding, Benjamin
Thesis: 'Divided by La Manche: Naval Enterprise and Maritime Revolution in Early Modern England and France
Supervisors:
Award Date: 2017
ePortfolio:- Reyes Bazt谩n, Maria
Dr Maria Reyes Bazt谩nThesis: 隆Arriba Los Pueblos Oprimidos! : Anticolonialism, race and violence in Basque radical nationalism (1892-1936)
Supervisors: and Dr Anna Ross
Award Date: 2022
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1660539- Roberts, George
Thesis: Politics, Decolonisation and the Cold War in Dar es Salaam, 1967-1972
Supervisors: andAward Date: 2016
ePortfolio:- Rodgers, Tom
Thesis: The Boundaries of Coercion in the American Revolution c 1760-1789
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
- Rowe, Lesley
Thesis: The Worlds of Arthur Hildersham, 1563-1632
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2009
ePortfolio:
- Rupp, William
Thesis: A New Perspective on British Identity: The Travel Journals of John Byng, 1781-1794
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
- Rutherford, Beckie
Dr Beckie RutherfordThesis: Disabled women organising: rethinking the political within British liberation movements, 1976-1998
Supervisors: Dr Laura Schwartz & Dr Claire Shaw
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1790389/
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- Sangha, Laura
Thesis: The Significance of Angels in English Religious Cultures c.1480-1700
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2009
ePortfolio:
- Sewell, Claire
Thesis: The emergence of the carer: mental health care in England and Wales, c1946-99
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2015
ePortfolio:
- Smith, Kate
Thesis: The Potter's Skill: Perceptions of Workmanship in the English Ceramic Industries, 1760-1800
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2010
ePortfolio:
- Soanes, Stephen
Thesis: Rest and Restitution: Convalescence andthe Public Mental Hospital in England, 1919-39
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
- Sparkes, Hilary
Thesis: Shadow worlds and "superstitions": An analysis of Martha Warren Beckwith's writings on Jamaican folk religion, 1919-1924
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2015
ePortfolio:
- Steele, Dave
Thesis: The reputational power of English reform crowds 1816 – 1848
Supervisor: Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio:- Straw, Hannah
Dr Hannah StrawThesis: 'A Good Deal That鈥檚 Bad and Very Little Good鈥�: The Court Wits and Performance of Scandal
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1763210/- Stylianou, Anastasia
Dr Anastasia StylianouThesis: Martyrs' blood in Reformation England
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2018
ePortfolio:
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- Tam, Bobby
Dr Bobby TamThesis: Emotions of Death in Nineteenth-Century British Colonial China
Supervisors: Dr Song-Chuan Chen & Dr Robert Fletcher
Award Date: 2023
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1861810- Tauber, Maria
Dr Maria TauberThesis: The Making of English Politicians. Early Modern MPs and the Transformation of the Media Landscape c. 1640 – 1800
Supervisors: Professor Beat K眉min and Prof Mark Knights
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1990624Link opens in a new window
- Taylor, Edward
Thesis: Commenting on the news: the serial press and political culture in Britain, 1641-c.1730
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio:
- Thoradeniya, Darshi
Thesis: Women's Health as State Strategy: Sri Lanka's Twentieth Century
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2014
ePortfolio:
- Tierney, Josephine
Thesis: The Export of British Printed Textiles to West Africa 1850-1914
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2019ePortfolio:
- Toner, Deborah
Thesis: What's Wrong with a Little Drinking? Alcohol and Nation-Building in Nineteenth Century Mexican Fiction
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2009
ePortfolio:
- Tucker, James
Thesis: 'Vrais Chrestiens': Strangers in the Martyrologies of Jean Crespin
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2012
ePortfolio:
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- Unger, Nikolaus
Thesis: Today,Tomorrow...and Yesterday? Modern Austrian Identity Construction and the Case of Hermann Bahr and Stefan Zweig
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2008
ePortfolio:
- Uribe Botta, Camilo
Dr Camilo Uribe Botta
Thesis: Hunting orchids in the Northern Andes: The exchange of tropical Orchidaceae between Colombia and the United Kingdom. 1843-1901
Supervisor: Professor Rebecca Earle
Award Date: 2024
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1990473
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- Valerio, Liana-Beatrice
Dr Liana-Beatrice ValerioThesis: Scripts of Confidence and Supplication: Fear as the Personal and Political Among the Elite Male Slaveholders of South Carolina and Cuba, 1820 – 1850
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio: /fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/former/u0918374/
- Velasco Reyes, Christian
Dr Christian Velasco ReyesThesis: The Kenyan banking system: from colonial expansion to independence uncertainty 1950-1970
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2020
ePortfolio:
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- Williams, Rebecca
Thesis: Revisiting the Khanna Study: Population and Development in India, 1953-1960
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2014
ePortfolio:
- Winter, Holly
Thesis: Militaristic masculinity and material culture in the armies in India, 1840-1900
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2022
ePortfolio:- Wright, Esther
Thesis: Rockstar Games and American History
Supervisor:
Award Date: 2019ePortfolio:
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- Yoon, Young Hwi
Thesis: The Spread and Transformation of Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the Transatlantic Evangelical Network 1730s-1790s
Supervisors: and
Award Date: 2011
ePortfolio:
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- Zhao, Han
Thesis: The cultures of shame in Britain, 1650-1800
Supervisor:
Award date: 2016
ePortfolio: