PhD Students
Browse this list of our current PhD students, or see our past PhD students for information on previous projects and research.
To find out more about undertaking research in History, visit our research degrees pages or contact hypirpgr@le.ac.uk.
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Ahmad Abouelnour |
Revitalization of Old RAK (Oldest Settlement in the UAE). |
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Natasha Bailey |
Nahua Women in the Pulque Trade of Early Colonial Mexico, 1521-1600. |
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Jamie Banks |
British Imperialism, Labour Migration, Local Resistance, and the problem of Indian Opium Use, 1858-1912. |
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| Richard Bates | rb413@le.ac.uk | British diplomacy, politics and espionage at Spa during the American War of Independence (the ‘AWI’). |
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Sue Bishop |
Mixed Race Relationships in post-war Leicester: Multiculturalism and the emotional complexities of Female Agency. |
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Elizabeth Blood |
The construction history of war memorials in Leicestershire and Rutland. |
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Kevin Brown |
A study of the significance of the kinship and wider social relationships of those involved in the shaping of the radical networks among the working classes in England from the 1840s to the 1870s. |
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| Thomas Joseph Michael Callaghan | tjmc3@le.ac.uk | English decadence and dominion vitality: Anglo-Australian sport and English self-perception 1901-1962. |
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Ash Carter |
The Church in a State: How Richard Baxter's theology of the Visible and Invisible Church impacted his philosophy of Church and State. |
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Congjie Cheng |
Survivalism and Patriotism of Chinese Local Cliques: From the Perspective of Relationship between the Kuomintang Central Government and the Guangxi Clique during the Second Sino-Japanese War. |
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Maria Christodoulou |
Politics and Everyday Life in a Divided City: Nicosia, 1955 - 1974. |
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| Alexandra Cooper | ac832@le.ac.uk | Commodities and the role of British capital in shaping financial markets in Sicily 1816-1861. |
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Nicholas Cummins |
The '"cork" in the bottle': Explaining Reagan's failure to confront Iran. |
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| Hubertus Drobner | hd190@le.ac.uk | |
| Ann Drynan | ad515@le.ac.uk | "Associational culture in a developing residential and leisure town: Brighton and Hove in the nineteenth century." |
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Abigail Eiceman |
The Development of Automatic Chemical Warfare Agent Detectors in England 1970-1998. | |
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Paige Emerick |
Royal visits within Britain and the formation of National Identity, 1760-1849. |
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Amanda Jane Gillam |
Anglo-Russian Relations 1700-1725, descent into Cold War. |
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Michael Greasley |
Propaganda and the British provincial press in the Anglo-Irish Conflict, 1919-1923. |
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Prisca Greenhow |
Norfolk Pauper Letter 1750-1850. |
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| Karianne Hansen | kh370@le.ac.uk | 'Men always find it harder to explain death than life' : Survival within The Auschwitz Camp Structure 1942-1945. |
| Stanley Hardie | sesh1@le.ac.uk | A study of the civil parish of Meare in the Poor Law Union of Well in the County of Somerset with emphasis on the forces leading to decisions to either stay or to migrate from the parish in the period 1851 to 1891. |
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Jordan Harris |
Biracial England: An Analysis of the Anglo-African Experience in Victorian Age. |
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Emilia Henderson |
Franco-Saxon Manuscripts in the Ninth Century. |
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Todd Henderson |
The State of Christianity Today: An Historical Assessment of the Flagship Evangelical Publication. |
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Carla Herrmann |
Medical relief under the Old Poor Law in Hertfordshire. |
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| Jessica Hodgkinson | jmh81@le.ac.uk | Gender and Literacy: the participation of women in book culture in England and Francia, c.650-c.950. |
| Julie Hurst-Whitehouse | jhw15@le.ac.uk | Then and Now: Changing Spaces for Women's Voices in Oral Histories of Holocaust and Genocide, 1945-2018. |
| Elizabeth Inlow | eji3@le.ac.uk | Cultural Differences in the Emotional Experiences of Visitors to Nazi Concentration Camp site. |
| April Claire Jackson | acj22@le.ac.uk | Execution and Empire: A History of Judicial Killing under British Colonial Rule. |
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Daniel Johnson |
Songs Before Unknown - Isaac Watts and the Dynamics of Protestant Worship in Enlightenment England. |
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Elizabeth Jones |
Growth, Identity and Urbanisation. The Impact of Migration on small rural communities in Monmouthshire. | |
| Erkjad Kajo | ek309@le.ac.uk | How the North was Won? Minorities, demographic engineering and the making of the Greco-Albanian borderland (1912-1945). |
| Jessica Kebbell | jk394@le.ac.uk | The History of the Howard League for Penal Reform, 1866-1948. |
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Namak Khoshnaw |
The Spoil Of The War a PhD proposal on the Kurdish genocide in Iraq. | |
| Jonathan Lanz | jb841@le.ac.uk | History and memory of the Theresienstadt Family Camp, a sector of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex |
| Amy Latimer | afl11@le.ac.uk | Elections as Black Women's work since the 1960s. |
| Carrie Laverick | clal1@le.ac.uk | Institutionalisation of the Insane Poor: Analysis of the Suspected Causes, Prescribed Treatment and Likelihood of Recovery from Insanity, within Victorian Leicester. |
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Emmeline Ledgerwood |
Re-evaluating the 1980s and 1990s through life histories: politics, privatisation and the culture of government research. |
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| Peilin Li | pl217@le.ac.uk | Jianghu: Daily life in Tianjin 1900-1949. |
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Georgina Lockton |
Science, Technology and Road Safety in the Motor Age. |
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Tracey Logan |
Democracy and Direct Action in the Suburbs: Chiswick, Edgbaston and Filton 1838-1940. |
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| Tonja Koob Marking | tkm17@le.ac.uk | The Enslaved Roseland Plantation Community of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, 1805 -2025. |
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Joshua McMullan |
Defending Modernity? Communicating with the Public about Nuclear Energy: Historical Perspectives. |
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Adam Millar |
Empire of Salvation: The Salvation Army's Imperial Settlements and Colonies, c.1890-1939. | |
| Ellen Morgan | ecm39@le.ac.uk | Women of the Civil Rights Movement: The Hidden Narratives and the Commemoration of a Southern Female Voice. |
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Michael Morgan |
‘The Tone of My Quarterly Payments’: The Clergy-Laity Relationship in Wilberforce’s Friendship Network (1783-1833). | |
| Oresta Muckute | om89@le.ac.uk | Narratives of Loss during the Civil Wars in Ireland, Wales and England Compared, 1641-52. |
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Raku Nagamine |
The Corporation of Chester in the long eighteenth century. | |
| Paul O'Shea | pos5@le.ac.uk | Masculinity and friendship between male prisoners in KL Dachau, Mauthausen, and Sachsenhausen. |
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Benjamin Palmer |
A fruitful field for women: A collective biography of women in biochemistry 1906-1975. | |
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Amerdeep Panesar |
Beyond the Boundary: Cricket and Community in England, c. 1965-2015. | |
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Lauren Parsons |
Seeking Justice and Atonement: British Legal Approaches to Mass Murder in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, 1945-1969. | |
| Veena Patel | vp161@le.ac.uk | Water, Healing, and the Reformation in England 1520-1680. |
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Bradley Phipps |
Motherhood and Manhood: Gender in the White Citizens' Councils. | |
| Teresa Porciani | tp211@le.ac.uk | Figural Sculpture in Anglo-Saxon England: networks, agency and cross cultural contacts, c. 700-900. |
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Kimberley Pullen |
The Old Poor Law and agrarian change in Leicestershire, c. 1700-1834. | |
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John Pullin |
Engine Drivers in Local, Regional and National Context, 1850–1885. | |
| Emma Rhodes | emr18@le.ac.uk | Non-White Women in the Works Progress Administration in the Southern United States, 1935-41. |
| Daniel Robert Rignall | drr13@le.ac.uk | Popular Engagement with Biblical Texts in Eighteenth Century Britain. |
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Raphael Rues |
Military activities of German and Italian Fascists units during 1943-1945 in the region of Ossola and Lake Maggiore. | |
| David Russell | dr231@le.ac.uk | Stretching the Evidence: An examination of the English Landscape through GIS 1573-1700. |
| Jacob Patrick Salley | jps45@le.ac.uk | The Impact of the Enlightenment upon the Calvinistic Baptists of England, 1730–1830. |
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Peter Sasvari |
"Poor Mexico: so far from God, and...": Reflections of The New York Times and US press on Mexico's political life and Mexican-American relations in the 20th century (regarding milestones of Mexico's political life). | |
| Mariella Scerri | ms116@le.ac.uk | The Trajectory of Care in Narratives in the Late Modern Period. |
| Wendy Scott | ws138@le.ac.uk | Money, economy and society in late Saxon England: The Lenborough hoard and the monetary impact of Anglo-Danish rule. |
| Maria Chiara Scuderi | mcs38@le.ac.uk | Global Leicester: The Dryad Craftwork Collection at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery. |
| Paul Shaw | pavs2@le.ac.uk | A new approach to understanding Anglo-Scandinavian settlement and agrarian practice utilising analysis of terroir. |
| Nathaniel Van Sherman | nvs2@le.ac.uk | The Baptistic Congregationalism Of The Wapping Church: A Cultural-Religious Analysis (1655-1712) Cultural-Religious Analysis (1655-1712). |
| Nicholas Christian Siniari | ncs13@le.ac.uk | A History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's Mission to the Rastafari of the West Indies and the West Indian Diaspora in the 20th Century. |
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Derek Smith |
Guernsey Emigration 1800-1930. | |
| Ellen Smith | ecss3@le.ac.uk | Communication, Intimacy and Creativity: Family Life in British India, 1790-1920. |
| Mark Anthony Smith | mas106@le.ac.uk | The Life and Works of Samuel Chandler: 1693-1766. |
| Robin Alexander Smith | ras90@le.ac.uk | Educating Nazi Germany: Resistance and Conformity in the teaching profession under the Third Reich. |
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Diane Strange |
'The contempt and reproach of this nation': Widows and orphans in the Court of Wards, 1625-1650. | |
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Nadine Tauchner |
Austrian Journalism between Austrofascism, Nazism and Democracy Otto Schulmeister, 1916-2001. | |
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Matthew Tuohy |
Tracing the origins of settlement morphology and landscape character within the Hundred of Willey, Bedfordshire. | |
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Judith Vocker |
Crime and Criminal Prosecution in the Warsaw, Cracow and Riga Ghetto during World War II. | |
| Verne Walker | vw55@le.ac.uk | The impact of the civil wars on women's work in Wales and England 1630-1655. |
| Nicolas Walton | nw183@le.ac.uk | The German Civil Service from the Kingdom of Prussia to the Federal Republic of Germany: the historical development of the service, its principles, and its loyalties. |
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Harry Wilkinson |
The Night and Darkness in Anglo-Saxon England. | |
| Paul Thomas Woolley | ptw7@le.ac.uk | Abolitionism and the Bible: The use of Scripture by Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Buxton and William Wilberforce in their anti-slavery campaigns (1760-1840). |
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David Yates |
dy46@le.ac.uk |
An evaluation of the criticisms of Grey’s Foreign Policy. |
| Megan Yates | mly8@le.ac.uk | Poverty, Work and Punishment: Vagrancy Across the Midlands, 1834 to 1930. |