Current and Past PhD students
Below is a list of theses currently being supervised in the School of History, as well as links to the pages of some of our research students. You can also find information about recently completed theses.
CURRENT THESES
Modern and Contemporary
Andrew Arends
An economic history of association football 1960-2010 (Professor Peter Hennessy)
John Blockley
French views of Britain and the British in the era of the Boer War (Professsor Julian Jackson.) MPhil.
Adam Broadbent
The rise and Fall of Monetarism 1976-85 (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Heather Campbell (Dr Jon Smele)
The effect of Brtain's Trade Unions and labour groups on Anglo-Russian relations from 1917-1921
Dionysios Chourchoulis
The Southern flank of NATO, 1952-58 (Dr James Ellison)
Matthew Cooper
The Labour party and the quest for a ‘civilised society’ in the 1960s (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Rob Dale
Life After War: The Demobilisation And Postwar Adjustment Of Red Army Veterans In Leningrad And The Leningrad Region 1944-1950 (Professor Catherine Merridale
Morgan Daniels
Political Humour 1945-1997 (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Eleanor Davey
Tiers-mondisme & sans-frontierisme in twentieth century France (Professor Julian Jackson)
Peter Davies
Detecting strategic decline: British intelligence assessment of the Soviet Union, 1964-91 (Dr. James Ellison and Professor Peter Hennessy)
Alun Evans
Private Office since 1945 (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Mark Fox
The impact of Robert Runcie on the political debate and environment between 1980 and 1991 during his period as the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Daniel Furby
Britain's Entry to the European Community, 1967-73 (Dr James Ellison) London PhD.
Dion Georgiou
Carnivals in Greater London, 1900-1914 (Dr Peter Catterall) London MPhil.
Toby Glyn
Effect of Franco-Algerian war on Anglo-French relations 1958-62 (Dr James Ellison)
Rosaleen Hughes
Governing in hard times: Governments and crisis management in the 1970s. (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Åsa Jansson
The Pathology of Melancholy Emotions, 1845-1917 (Dr Thomas Dixon and Dr Rhodri Hayward)
James Jinks
The UK Polaris Programme (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Jacqui Knight
(Dr Rhodri Hayward)
Matthew Laban
The speaker of the House of Commons: The office and its holders since 1945 (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Robert Ledger
The Thatcher Governments and Liberal Economic Thought (Dr Peter Catterall)
Jake Lybbert
Western diplomats living and working behind the Iron Curtain (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Jack McGowan
Harmony and discord within the English 'Counter-Culture', 1965-1975, with particular reference to the 'Rock Operas' Hair, Tommy, Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar (Dr Daniel Todman and Professor Donald Sassoon)
Christopher Millard
20th Century Psychiatry, The Emergence of 'Parasuicide', c. 1950-1980 (Dr Rhodri Hayward)
Alycen Mitchell
The rise of the art and antiquities auction business, 1945-1965 (Professor Donald Sassoon)
Andrew Moore
Margaret and the Machine, Thatcher and the Civil Service (Professor Peter Hennessy)
Joel Morley
Attitudes to Service in the Second World War and the Role of the First World War in their Formation (Dr Dan Todman)
Anna Motcyzka
The Polish Roman Catholic Church, the Jews and the Holocaust, 1945-1968 (Dr Christina von Hodenberg)
Eleanor O’Keefe
The Great War and commemoration(Dr Dan Todman)
Yoshitaka Okamoto
(Dr James Ellison)
Elsa Richardson
Female Madness 1880-1910 (Dr Rhodri Hayward & Catherine Maxwell)
Greg Roberts
(Dr Peter Catterall)
Tim Roll-Pickering
The management of the parliamentary supporters of the U.K. National Government, 1935-40 (Dr James Ellison)
Tsela Rubel
British policies in counter-insurgency: The IRA, the Irgun and LEHI compared. (Dr. Richard Bourke)
Cory Santos
Self-impressions and dilemmas of Conscientious Objectors in the Second World War (Dr Daniel Todman)
Mark Sampson
Changing the People’s Game: Football in England 1970 – 2010 (Dr Peter Catterall)
Pamela Schievenin
The role played by women politicians in the reform of maternal and infant welfare during the Golden Age of Welfare" Italy in a comparative perspective (1945-1980) (Professor Donald Sassoon)
Jade Shepherd
‘Victorian Madmen: Broadmoor, Masculinity, and the Experiences of the Criminally Insane, 1863-1900' (Dr Thomas Dixon)
Andrew Smith
Blood and Wine: The Comité Régional d'Action Viticole and the ill-health of M. Occitania (Professor Julian Jackson)
Reto Speck
Eastern Europe in Enlightenment Historiography (Dr. Richard Bourke)
Lee Tattershall
British Labour Camps of the Inter War Years (Dr Peter Catterall)
Thomas Symmons
New Hollywood Cinema, 1967-82 (Dr Mark Glancy)
David Torrance
United Kingdom-wide constitutional thought since Kilbrandon (Dr Peter Catterall)
Alexandra Wachter
Remembering the siege of Leningrad (Professor Catherine Merridale)
Jen Wallis
Unable to give any account of himself': Male experiences of Stanley Royd asylum, Wakefield, c.1880-1900 (Dr Rhodri Hayward)
Iain Wilton
The 1951 Festival of Britain: It's Politics, Ecomomics and Lessons for Public Policy in the Future (Dr Peter Catterall)
18th Century
Paul Davidson
French Caricatures (Professor Jones)
Daniel De Groff
'Safeguarding French Regional Culture, 1884-1914' (Professor Colin Jones and Professor Julian Jackson)
Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley
Justice, the State and the individual during the terror, France 1793-5 (Professor Colin Jones)
William Seay
The Huguenots of Colonial Virginia, 1690-1783 (Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto)
Samantha Shammai
London Newspaper reporting and perceptions of 'Jacobite crime', and teh emerging middle-class English Protestant identity, around the 1723 Black Act, with a focus on Applebee's Original Weekly Journal (Professor John Miller)
Caroline Watkinson
Patronage, Piety and Peripheries: Exiled English Convents and the Politics of Religion in the Long Eighteenth Century (Professor Michael Questier)
Marialana Wittman
Reshaping Morals: Syphilis and Women in Eighteenth-Century France (Professor Colin Jones)
Medieval and Renaissance
Philip Baldwin
Pope Gregory X and the Crusades (Dr Tom Asbridge)
Charlotte Bolland
The Italianisation of the English Court (Professor Kate Lowe)
Andrew Buck
The Crusader Principality of Antioch as a Frontier Society from the mid-twelfth century into the thirteenth century (Dr Tom Asbridge)
Matthew Champion
Time in Fifteenth-Century Burgundy (Professor Miri Rubin)
Sarah Duncan
The Stables of the Italian Renaissance Courts (Professor Kate Lowe)
Sue Haines
Gender and religious Dissent 1660 – 1720 (Professor John Miller)
Jessica Harris
The naming of nuns is a difficult matter: a comparison of naming of nuns in Italy, France and England during the Renaissance (Professor Kate Lowe)
Mark Honigsbaum
The Great Dread: the ‘Russian’ influenza in the United Kingdom, 1889-1901 (Dr Rhodri Hayward)
Kati Ihnat
Jewish Stereotypes in 12th Century North-Western Europe (Professor Miri Rubin)
Jai Kharbanda
Eating habits in Mexico around time of the Spanish conquest (Felipe Fernandez-Armesto)
Suzy Knight
Zacchere da donna: the material culture of female belief and maternal memory in Florence, c. 1420-1550 (Professor Kate Lowe )
Jose J. Lopez-Portillo
Viceroys in New Spain, 1535-66 (Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto)
David Magliocco
"Popularity" and Restoration Political Culture, 1663-1678 (Dr John Miller)
Justin Nash
People of the Chilterns and their Religion/Beliefs in the period 1400-1530 (Professor Virginia Davis)
Rafaelle Nicolson
Women at the wicket: Women's cricket in Britain, 1945 – 2000. (Dr Peter Catterall)
Kevin O’Daly
An analysis of British Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Union's Strategic Weapons Programmes 1949-62 (Dr Peter Catterall)
Carol Sibson
Rhyme and Reason: a study of vernacular verse pastoralia for the English laity c. 1240-1350 (Professor Miri Rubin)
Gustavs Strenga
Remembrance of the Dead in Late Medieval Livonia (Professor Miri Rubin)
Alex Tompkins
Allegiance, resistance and compromise. Catholic participation in, and reactions to, the English Civil War. (Professor Michael Questier)
Milan Zonca
Authority and Deviance in Medieval Western Jewry (Professor Miri Rubin)
History of Political Thought and Intellectual History
Georgios Giannakopoulos
AJ Toynbee's theory of history and the Greco-Turkish imbroglio (Dr Georgios Varouxakis)
Elliott Karstadt
The Power of "Interest" in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought in Revolutionary England, c. 1640 to c. 1700 (Professor Quentin Skinner)
Joanne Paul
The State of Henrician Though, 1485-1547 (Professor Quentin Skinner)
Lorenzo Sabbadini
The commonwealth and common wealth: economic discourses in English humanist and republican thought, 1515-1660 (Professor Quentin Skinner)
Antoinette Saxer
The Foe of Freedom: Despotism in Early Modern Political Thought (Professor Quentin Skinner)
Richard Smittenaar
The International Sphere in Conservative Political Thought( Dr Georgios Varouxakis)
PAST THESES
Patrick Baker
A comparative history of the Spanish and Portuguese communist parties, 1974-85 (Professor Donald Sassoon) London PhD.
Chiara Beccalossi
The construction of scientific knowledge regarding female ‘sexual inversion’: Italian, English and American psychiatry compared (Professor Daniel Pick) London PhD.
Lorraine Blakemore
A public showcase for the British Film Institute: analysis of the origins, development and cultural impact of the Museum of the Moving Image (1988 - 1999) (Professor Geoffrey S Nowell-Smith) London PhD.
Simon Case
British Foreign and Defence policy towards Germany, 1947-64 (Professor Peter Hennessy) London PhD.
Martin Cohen
The eclipse of ‘Elegant Economy’: Post-war changes in attitudes to personal expenditure (Dr Peter Catterall) London PhD.
Jon Davis
The reform of British central government 1962-74 (Professor Peter Hennessy) London PhD.
Stefanie Freyberg
The International Dimension of the SPD and the PCI: Europe, the Cold War and Détente (Professor Donald Sassoon) London PhD.
Matthew Grant
Civil defence in Cold War Britain, 1945-68 (Professor Peter Hennessy) London PhD.
Catherine Haddon
British intelligence assessments of Soviet nuclear intentions and capabilities, 1945-75. (Professor Peter Hennessy) London PhD.
Robert Henderson
Vladimir Burtsev and the Russian revolutionary emigration: Surveillance of foreign political refugees in London, 1891-1905 (Dr Jonathan Smele) London PhD.
Suzy Knight
Objects of piety: Private devotion in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Florence. (Professor Kate Lowe) London PhD.
Tracey Loughran
Shell shock and the persistence of tradition (Professors Daniel Pick and Michèlle Barrett.) London PhD.
Antis Loizides
Plato’s Influence on British Utilitarians: The Case of John Stuart Mill (Dr Georgios Varouxakis and Dr Richard Bourke)
Henry Miller
Images of politics: Cartoons, caricatures and popular political images in Britain, c.1830-1880 (Dr. Peter Catterall.) London PhD
Ed Naylor
The Politics of a Presence : Algerians in Marseille 1962-74 (Professor Julian Jackson)
Pat Naylor
Artists, Scribes and Patrons: The Enlargement and Embellishment of Two Percy Family Manuscripts in the Early Sixteenth Century (Professor Virginia Davis) London PhD.
Eyal Poleg
Mediations of the Bible in Late Medieval England (Professor Miri Rubin.) London PhD.
James Rafferty
Politicising Stardom: Jane Fonda, IPC Films and Hollywood, 1977-1982 (Dr Mark Glancy)
Amanda Raphael
Natural Childbirth in Twentieth Century Britain: The Impact of Alternative Approaches to Birth on Maternity Care from the 1940s to the 1990s (Dr Peter Catterall) London PhD.
Rosa Salzberg
From printshop to piazza: the dissemination of cheap print in sixteenth-century Venice (Professor Kate Lowe) London PhD.
Tom Sebrell II
Union and Confederate propaganda: How it affected parliamentary and public opinion of the American civil war (Dr Peter Catterall)
Natalya Vince
To be a moudjahida in independent Algeria: Itineraries and memories of women veterans of the War of Independence 1954-1962. (Professor Julian Jackson) London PhD.
Alban Webb
The BBC's external services and the Cold War (Professor Peter Hennessy.) London PhD.Useful Links