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More Awards for our Postgraduates!
Posted on 17 February 2015
Sophie Littlewood has been awarded a bursary of £400 through The Geoffery Bond Travel Award. This will enable her to fly to New York to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she will be able to see at first hand the armour garniture of George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland and the portrait of Walter Devereux (1539–1576), Earl of Essex, both of whom form chapter case studies in her thesis.
Sophie's thesis 'Elizabethan Armour and the Fashioning of British Masculinity' examines the role armour played in projecting ideals of Elizabethan masculinity and explores armour as a carrier of social and cultural signifiers.
Oliver Fearon has won The Arts Scholars Research Award, worth £500. Oliver's thesis is concerned with a collection of heraldic stained glass windows, commissioned by the sixteenth-century Knight, Sr. Edmund Knightley, to adorn the Great Hall of his Northamptonshire Great House. Oliver's research will take him from Glasgow to New York, as well as London, Oxford and Northamptonshire where he will view primary sources and examine late-medieval glass and glazing techniques.
Read more about Sophie and Oliver's theses, and the Worshipful Company of Art Scholars.