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Department of History

Current Research Students

Medieval History

Thomas Ball

From the Temporal to the Eternal: The Normative Philosophy of Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Alex Brown

Recession and Recovery in the North-East, 1400-1640

David Burke

Atoning for Killing: The Practice and Perception of Penance for Bloodshed Among the Early Medieval Irish (6th-9th Century)

Judith Dunthorne

The legacy of Anselm of Canterbury in the early 12th Century

Dana Durkee

Social Mobility and the ‘Middling’ Merchant: Norwich, 1450-1530

Richard Ellis

Religion, Ritual, and Tradition: the Conduct of Warfare in Early Medieval Europe, c.550-c.950

Graham Galloway The Life and Career of Sir Henry Vane the Elder
Carla Haughey

Middle-Market Books of Hours for Royals and Nobles

Katherine Krick The 1549 Book of Common Prayer and its Origins in Catholic Service Books
Devin O'Leary William of St. Thierry’s Theological and Intellectual Identity

Benjamin Pope

Rural nobility and townspeople in 14th- and 15th- century Germany

Charlie Rozier

The Perception and Conceptualisation of historical studies in the Anglo-Norman World

Sam Sargeant

An Interdisciplinary Reading of Medieval Science in Europe, 1100-1400, with special focus on the transfer of knowledge between central Europe and the Scandinavian countries.

Gemma Wain

Representations of Eve in the twelfth century

Early Modern History

Lucy-Ann Bates

British State Prayers 1640-1660

Andy Burn Employment in Newcastle upon Tyne, c. 1600-1720
Mike Cressey The role of conspiracy theory in Restoration politico-religious discourse
Catherine Kent Review of gentry house building in sixteenth-century Northumberland

Jonathan Kewley

Architectural elements in grave monuments in the long eighteenth century

Mark McNally

The market of Hogarth: engravings in eighteenth-century Britain

Christian Schneider

Post-Reformation Papal Peacemaking. Prestige and Rhetoric in the Reign of Pope Clement VIII, 1592-1605

Ian Shovlin

Colonial Violence during the Seven Years War (1754-1763) and the 'Popular' Response within Britain

Leona Skelton

Early Modern British urban public hygiene regulation

Gareth Turner

British Economic History, particularly banking and finance, c.1660-1750

Marina Tymviou Early Modern European Queenship

Lindsay Varner

Religious Dissent: The Society of Friends in Northeast England, 1652-1720

Claire Weatherall Representations of the Justice of the Peace in Early Modern Society
Lauren Working

Savagery and Sedition: Jacobean Discourses of Incivility and the New World

Modern History

Chris Allan Coal, Shipping & Empire: The Triumverate of British Power, 1850-1914

Zoe Cormack

Landscape and local history in the River Jur area, South Sudan 1947-2012

Tomas Cubillas

A New prism for the state in France and Spain? The debate about the municipality and the citizen, 1880-1914

Poppy Cullen

British policy towards Kenya, 1960-1980

Denise Coss

The Great War and remembrance in the North East, 1919-39

Christopher Davis

The Conservative past in the twentieth century

Rob Doherty

“Drawing Lines on a Map”: English Regionalism and Regional Identity c. 1958-1983

Steven Foxon

Sir Edgar Anstey and documentary film

Sarah Gibbs

Aspects of the British Forces during the First and Second World Wars

Philippa Haughton

The Evolution of Modern British Advertising, 1923 - 1954

Reetta Humalajoki Debating Native American Termination in the Global, Domestic and Native Spheres, 1950-1970

Stephen James

Bank-business relationships and the finance of manufacturing: the development of Cleveland's iron and steel industry, 1840-1914

Anna Jones

'The People's War' in British film propaganda, 1939-1945

Nicki Kindersley The political identification of Southern Sudan migrants in Khartoum, 1972-2012

Giulio Marchisio

A Comparative Study of the Development of Private Arms Manufacturers in Italy and in the UK, 1861-1914

Sarah Marriott

Development Narratives in South Sudan since 1945

Conor McDowell Urban middle class and elite of Belfast in post-partition Ulster
Richard Mellalieu Labour Party and Conservative Party's periods in opposition from 1945-1997
Natalie Moss The history of local government in Kenya, 1952-2002

Kim Robertson

The Historical Development of Call Centres

Dean Rowell

Anthony Asquith: British wartime cinema and propaganda

George Stevenson

Experiences of ‘class’ within the British women’s liberation movement, c. 1968 - c. 1979.

Johnathan Wilbraham

An analysis of the British election results of 1945, 1950 and 1951

Matthew Wright

British Expatriates and Agricultural Development in East Africa and the Indian Ocean, c.1950-1980