Postgraduate researchers

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The Vulliamy workshop at Pall Mall – 100 years of creating luxury in London

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The Question of Identity in the Life and Career of Mohammed Al-Saleem (1967-1997)

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21, 39 Jeddah Art: The influence of cultural identity, education, and globalism on contemporary art in Saudi Arabia (2013-present)

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Optics and Architecture: Design and Illumination in the buildings of Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor

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The impact of Eric Milner-White (1884-1963), Dean of York 1941-63, on the stained glass of York Minster

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Moral Allegories and Gendered Spaces: Representing Women in Strasbourg Cathedral

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Mimesis and the Plasticity of History in Early Modern Collecting Cultures

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Charles Rutherston - The North of England's forgotten modernist pioneer? A case study into the collection and reception of modern art in the North of England, c.1900-1945

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Reinterpreting Kazimir Malevich’s Planity Series and Arkhitektony Experiments

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The Two ‘Authors’ of Work: Ford Madox Brown and Thomas Edward Plint

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Enduring Associations: The Art of Alter-Communities

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The Haptic Sense in the Dada movement

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Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture in its social, aesthetic, and theological context

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A Comparative study of the representations of Hong Kong, Malaysian and Singaporean Art (Art of the Commonwealth states in South-East Asia) over international exhibition platforms from 1960s to early 1980s

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The Development of Mihrab Design and Ornamentation in the Central and West Asia: Circa 7th to 14th Centuries

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Beyond Superficial Senescence: Art and Old Age in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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Enabling Feminist Readings of History Through Architecture

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To what extent did the architecture of the early modern grammar school affect, impede or complexify its formal educational and broader social learning functions?

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Collective Performances in Public Spaces: Constructing Identity through theBody in China's Avant-Garde (1983-1989)

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The Hall of Mirrors: A re-assessment of value making practices in the contemporary art market through the lens of NFTs

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British Victorian Busts

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Reforming Female Autonomy: Fifteenth Century Sisters of the Franciscan Observant Reform in the Upper Rhine

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From Umayyad Madinat al-Zahra to Almohad Seville: The Reuse of Caliphal Capitals in the Twelfth Century

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The influence of trade, textiles, and patronage on the early portraiture of Thomas Gainsborough from his Ipswich period.

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The Performing Body: Sexuality, Identity, and Nostalgia in Ballet and Theatre in the Works of the Neo-Romantics, 1923-1972

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Bartholomeus Spranger’s Mythological Paintings: Gender Play in Rudolfine Prague

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German Expressionism and the Aporia of Time, c.1900-c.1925

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Designs in coloured light: The religious stained glass iconographies of Karl Parsons (1884-1934)

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Peach Blossom Spring’ and ‘Great Unity’: the Representation of Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Art after 1978

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Early British Women Travellers to Ravenna and Their Impact Upon Early Studies of Byzantine Art

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The Novelty of Reproduction: Translating Fine Art into Two-and-a-Half-Dimensions in the Long Nineteenth Century

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From Ritual to Rapture: representations of the quest myth in mid-Victorian illustration.

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Shifting patterns of taste and identity through iconographic analyses of mid-Victorian ceramics

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Simulating antiquity: Monochrome faux antique façade painting from a cross European perspective (1530-1630)

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A cross-cultural examination of late medieval circular world maps from the western and eastern traditions

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Reflections of European Medieval Revival styles in Russian nineteenth-century architecture

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Frederic Leighton, A Reassessment of His life and Works Based Upon His Unpublished Correspondence.

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A new type of women's work: the rise of the quasi-professional woman limner in England, ca.1650-1750

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The Eye of Its Beholder: A Medical and Scientific Study of Religious Visuality and Image Agency in Thirteenth Century England

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A Different View of Turner: Private Collectors, Agnew's and the Art Market, 1852-1906

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Body and Words: the assimilation of Carla Lonzi’s theory in the work of Simona Weller, Suzanne Santoro, Marinella Senatore, and Claire Fontaine

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Commemorating Imperialism in Eighteenth-Century Westminster Abbey

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The Persistence of Modernity; Railways Art and Relativity

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John Flaxman: art, design and the intermedial body

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An Ecological Art History: The Seventeenth-Century Cloth Industry and the Environment in the Low Countries

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Women's art collectives in 1970s Italy: Use of mythology and antiquity in their artistic practices

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Conversations in Stone: The Narratives of York Minster’s Post-Reformation Memorial Sculptures

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Mining (in) the gap: Nineteenth Century Traveller-Artists in the Anglo-Prone Frontier

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What Kinds of British Art History Might Be Able To Account For The Artist Banksy?

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Convent Thoughts: Community and Religion in the Works of Charles Allston Collins.

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The afterimages of a deceased dynasty: The circulation of late Qing photography in the age of decolonisation

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Most Women have no Characters at all': Gender and Agency in Godfrey Kneller’s Portraits of Women 1676-1723

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The World, Maps and Geographic Imagery in Children¿s Pictorials of Modern China, 1902-1936

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The Privately Founded Contemporary Art Museum’s Social Responsibility and Cultural Function in China

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Contemporary Artworks Based on Chinese Characters Since the 85 New Wave