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.

Student	Email address	Research focus
Ahmad Abouelnour	aa1034@	Revitalization of Old RAK (Oldest Settlement in the UAE).
Richard Bates	rb413@	British diplomacy, politics and espionage at Spa during the American War of Independence (the ‘AWI’).
Kevin Brown	kgb5@	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.
James Burns	jrb49@	Slavery and the Households of Sixth-Century Gaul
Thomas Callaghan	tjmc3@	English decadence and dominion vitality: Anglo-Australian sport and English self-perception 1901-1962.
Ash Carter	asbc1@	The Church in a State: How Richard Baxter's theology of the Visible and Invisible Church impacted his philosophy of Church and State.
Alexandra Cooper	ac832@	Commodities and the role of British capital in shaping financial markets in Sicily 1816-1861.
Ann Drynan	ad515@	"Associational culture in a developing residential and leisure town: Brighton and Hove in the nineteenth century."
Abigail Eiceman	aee7@	The Development of Automatic Chemical Warfare Agent Detectors in England 1970-1998.
Karianne Hansen	kh370@	'Men always find it harder to explain death than life' : Survival within The Auschwitz Camp Structure 1942-1945.
Todd Henderson	tkh9@	The State of Christianity Today: An Historical Assessment of the Flagship Evangelical Publication.
Jessica Hodgkinson	jmh81@	Gender and Literacy: the participation of women in book culture in England and Francia, c.650-c.950.
Julie Hurst-Whitehouse	jhw15@	Then and Now: Changing Spaces for Women's Voices in Oral Histories of Holocaust and Genocide, 1945-2018.
Elizabeth Inlow	eji3@	Cultural Differences in the Emotional Experiences of Visitors to Nazi Concentration Camp site.
April Jackson	acj22@	Execution and Empire: A History of Judicial Killing under British Colonial Rule.
Daniel Johnson	dj111@	Songs Before Unknown - Isaac Watts and the Dynamics of Protestant Worship in Enlightenment England.
Jessica Kebbell	jk394@	The History of the Howard League for Penal Reform, 1866-1948.
Namak Khoshnaw	nnk6@	The Spoil Of The War a PhD proposal on the Kurdish genocide in Iraq.
Carrie Laverick	clal1@	Institutionalisation of the Insane Poor: Analysis of the Suspected Causes, Prescribed Treatment and Likelihood of Recovery from Insanity, within Victorian Leicester.
Peilin Li	pl217@	Jianghu: Daily life in Tianjin 1900-1949.
Tracey Logan	tjll1@	Democracy and Direct Action in the Suburbs: Chiswick, Edgbaston and Filton 1838-1940.
Tonja Marking	tkm17@	The Enslaved Roseland Plantation Community of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, 1805 -2025.
Adam Millar	am1115@	Empire of Salvation: The Salvation Army's Imperial Settlements and Colonies, c.1890-1939.
Ellen Morgan	ecm39@	Women of the Civil Rights Movement: The Hidden Narratives and the Commemoration of a Southern Female Voice.
Oresta Muckute	om89@	Narratives of Loss during the Civil Wars in Ireland, Wales and England Compared, 1641-52.
Paul O'Shea	pos5@	Masculinity and friendship between male prisoners in KL Dachau, Mauthausen, and Sachsenhausen.
Benjamin Palmer	brp7@	A fruitful field for women: A collective biography of women in biochemistry 1906-1975.
Amerdeep Panesar	asp31@	Beyond the Boundary: Cricket and Community in England, c. 1965-2015.
Veena Patel	vp161@	Water, Healing, and the Reformation in England 1520-1680.
Teresa Porciani	tp211@	Figural Sculpture in Anglo-Saxon England: networks, agency and cross cultural contacts, c. 700-900.
John Pullin	jlp27@	Engine Drivers in Local, Regional and National Context, 1850–1885.
Emma Rhodes	emr18@	Non-White Women in the Works Progress Administration in the Southern United States, 1935-41.
Daniel Rignall	drr13@	Popular Engagement with Biblical Texts in Eighteenth Century Britain.
Raphael Rues	rr238@	Military activities of German and Italian Fascists units during 1943-1945 in the region of Ossola and Lake Maggiore.
David Russell	dr231@	Stretching the Evidence: An examination of the English Landscape through GIS 1573-1700.
Peter Sasvari	ps428@	"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@	The Trajectory of Care in Narratives in the Late Modern Period.
Wendy Scott	ws138@	Money, economy and society in late Saxon England: The Lenborough hoard and the monetary impact of Anglo-Danish rule.
Maria Scuderi	mcs38@	Global Leicester: The Dryad Craftwork Collection at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery.
Paul Shaw	pavs2@	A new approach to understanding Anglo-Scandinavian settlement and agrarian practice utilising analysis of terroir.
Nathaniel Van Sherman	nvs2@	The Baptistic Congregationalism Of The Wapping Church: A Cultural-Religious Analysis (1655-1712) Cultural-Religious Analysis (1655-1712).
Nicholas Siniari	ncs13@	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.
Mark Smith	mas106@	The Life and Works of Samuel Chandler: 1693-1766.
Robin Smith	ras90@	Educating Nazi Germany: Resistance and Conformity in the teaching profession under the Third Reich.
Matthew Tuohy	mat45@	Tracing the origins of settlement morphology and landscape character within the Hundred of Willey, Bedfordshire.
Judith Vocker	jtv1@	Crime and Criminal Prosecution in the Warsaw, Cracow and Riga Ghetto during World War II.
Verne Walker	vw55@	The impact of the civil wars on women's work in Wales and England 1630-1655.
Nicolas Walton	nw183@	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.