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 |
British diplomacy, politics and espionage at Spa during the American War of Independence (the 'AWI') | |
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Philip Batman |
A comparison of core family survival in Swaledale and York in the nineteenth century. |
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| Matthew Bayly | mcb38@le.ac.uk | The Human Ecology of Poverty on the Lincoln Heath 1750 to 1850 |
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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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Nicola Blacklaws |
The Twentieth-Century Poor Law in the Midlands and Wales 1900-c.1930. |
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Elizabeth Blood |
The construction history of war memorials in Leicestershire and Rutland. |
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Denise Bonnette-Anderson |
What makes a church or chapel redundant or marked for closure in the modern era in England? |
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Paul Bonnick |
Sir Richard Phillips: His Rise from Pariah to Privilege. |
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Rory Booth |
The Realm of Bohemia: Masculinity, the press and Clubland in Late Victorian Manchester 1860-1914. |
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Katie Bridger |
The Leicestershire Gentry, c.1460-1560: Identity, Locality, and Landscape. |
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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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Jill Caine |
A study of migratory patterns of four settlements in Lincolnshire, 1851 – 1901. |
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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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Joshua Cohen |
'Never Again!' - a command not a slogan: The impact of the Holocaust on British anti-fascism, 1945-67. |
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Janet Couloute |
Visual Images of Madness and Distraction in Western Artistic Traditions: Mid Seventeenth Century-Eighteenth Century | |
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Carrie Crockett |
Penal Sakhalin: Forging identity in the Euro-Asian Borderlands. |
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Nicholas Cummins |
The '"cork" in the bottle':Explaining Reagan's failure to confront Iran. |
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Kevin DeYoung |
The Problem with John Witherspoon: Reassessing the Presbyterian pastor-president and his relationship to the Scottish Enlightenment. |
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| 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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Trixie Gadd |
Survival strategies of the clergy of Dorset in the 17th Century: economic, political, social and geographical |
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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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| 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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Anna Harrington |
'The grand object of my Parliamentary existence': William Wilberforce's abolitionism. |
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Jordan Harris |
Biracial England: An Analysis of the Anglo-African Experience in Victorian Age |
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Sally Ann Hartshorne |
The Heritage of Home: the role of history in the socio-economic development of Leicester, 1945-2013. |
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David Helm |
The healthcare economy of Gloucester in the Age of Reform, c.1815 - c.1870. |
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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 |
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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. | |
| Jessica Kebbell | jk394@le.ac.uk | The History of the Howard League for Penal Reform, 1866-1948 |
| Ross Kennedy | rk279@le.ac.uk | Death, Burial and Remembrance in Pilgrimage and Crusade, 1099-1291 |
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Namak Khoshnaw |
The Spoil Of The War a PhD proposal on the Kurdish genocide in Iraq | |
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Elias Kupfermann |
The role of the Castle and Town of New Windsor during the English Civil Wars (1642 – 1650). |
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| Carrie Laverick | clal1@le.ac.uk | Institutionalisation of the Insane Poor: Analysis of the Suspected Causes, Prescribed Treatment and Likelyhood of Recovery from Insanity, within Victorian Leicester |
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Rebecca Lawton |
Anglo-Saxon perceptions of the city of Rome: correspondence and exchange in the 7th and 8th centuries. |
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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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Jun Li |
Garden City in China. |
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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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Laura Mainwaring |
Bringing Regulation to the Market. |
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Liam McCarthy |
BBC Radio Leicester, the 630 Show: How did the social, political and broadcast worlds of 1970s Leicester collide to form the genesis of the BBC Asian Network? |
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| Jessica McIntyre | jcm51@le.ac.uk | Food Cultures of Ireland: New Culinary Perspectives on the Irish Bourgeois in the Mid-Nineteenth Century |
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Anna McKay |
War and Peace: The History of British Prison Hulks, 1776-1864. |
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Joshua McMullan |
Defending Modernity? Communicating with the Public about Nuclear Energy: Historical Perspectives. |
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| Sadie McMullon | sasm1@le.ac.uk | |
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Adam Millar |
Empire of Salvation: The Salvation Army's Imperial Settlements and Colonies, c.1890-1939 | |
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Christopher Mitchell |
Astrology in England in the Twelfth Century | |
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Adnan Mohammed |
British Representations of the Kurds and the Armenian Question 1877-1908 | |
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Tamar Moore |
Household Medicine, Charity and Welfare: Boughton House and the Montagu Family Estates, 1700-1850 | |
| 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). | |
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Janice Morris |
The role of elite women in the reception of French émigrés in England, 1789-1815. | |
| 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. | |
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Patricia Okuleye |
Selling Health on the World Stage. | |
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Paul Owens |
The social and ecclesiastical significance of church seating plans, 1700-1900. | |
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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. | |
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Bradley Phipps |
Motherhood and Manhood: Gender in the White Citizens' Councils. | |
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Anne Platoff |
Symbols in Service to the State: The Role of Flags and Other Symbols in the Civil Religion of the Soviet Union. | |
| 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. | |
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Jeffrey Pym |
What made possible the first global import of liquefied natural gas from Louisiana into a new North Thames Gas cryogenic storage terminal on Canvey Island in Essex during the winter of 1959? | |
| Emma Rhodes | emr18@le.ac.uk | Non-White Women in the Works Progress Administration in the Southern United States, 1935-41 |
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Matthew Rowley |
Godly Violence: Providence, Scripture and Puritan Belief-Formation in War in England, Ireland, Scotland and Colonial America. | |
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Mary Rudling |
Poor relief in eastern Sussex parishes c1800-1860: Continuity and change following the New Poor Law. An analysis of intra-regional practices at the end of the Old Poor Law and during the early years of the New Poor Law based on a study of relief recipients and relief officials. | |
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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 |
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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). | |
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Mrunmayee Satam |
Governing the Body- Public Health and Urban Society in Colonial Bombay City (1914- 1945) | |
| 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 |
| Paul Shaw | pavs2@le.ac.uk | A new approach to understanding Anglo-Scandinavian settlement and agrarian practice utilising analysis of terroir |
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Nicholas Siniari |
A History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's Mission to the Rastafari of the West Indies and the West. | |
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Derek Smith |
Guernsey Emigration 1800-1930. | |
| Ellen Smith | Communication, Intimacy and Creativity: Family Life in British India, 1790-1920 | |
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Mark Smith |
The Life and Works of Samuel Chandler: 1693-1766. | |
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Ann Stones |
Charnwood Circles: the role of boundaries in the relationship between people and place in medieval Charnwood Forest. | |
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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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Alister Sutherland |
Peasant seals and sealing practices in eastern England, c.1200-1500. | |
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Nadine Tauchner |
Austrian Journalism between Austrofascism, Nazism and Democracy Otto Schulmeister, 1916-2001 | |
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Tony Taylor |
Old World, New World: The Immigrant perspective of Spatial Belonging in the Lower East Side of New York and London's East End, 1880-1921. | |
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James Thedham |
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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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Salvatore Valenti |
Water in the making of a modern socio-natural landscape: Rome and its surroundings. 1870-1922 | |
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Liz van Wessem |
'Shiten Shepherde and a clene sheep'? Clergy-lay relationships in seventeenth-century Herefordshire. | |
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Judith Voecker |
Crime and Criminal Prosecution in the Warsaw, Cracow and Riga Ghetto during World War II. | |
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Scott Weightman |
The "Outward Face" of Massive Resistance: Segregationists’ Media Strategies during the 1950s and 1960s' | |
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Harry Wilkinson |
The Night and Darkness in Anglo-Saxon England | |
| Paul 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 |