Postgraduate researchers
Cristina Alfonsin Barreiro
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The Vulliamy workshop at Pall Mall – 100 years of creating luxury in London
Haifa Alkthiri
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The Question of Identity in the Life and Career of Mohammed Al-Saleem (1967-1997)
Dareen Alorflly
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21, 39 Jeddah Art: The influence of cultural identity, education, and globalism on contemporary art in Saudi Arabia (2013-present)
Aishwarya Anam
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Optics and Architecture: Design and Illumination in the buildings of Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor
Caroline Babington
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The Wall Paintings in UK Parliament: a reassessment of Victorian Britain's most ambitious art commission
Aabby Barofka
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The impact of Eric Milner-White (1884-1963), Dean of York 1941-63, on the stained glass of York Minster
Jacob Bolda
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Mimesis and the Plasticity of History in Early Modern Collecting Cultures
Martin Brook
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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
Nigel Burt
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The Two ‘Authors’ of Work: Ford Madox Brown and Thomas Edward Plint
Francisco Camacho Herrera
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Enduring Associations: The Art of Alter-Communities
Mead Cheek
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Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture in its social, aesthetic, and theological context
Clara Cheung
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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
Leila Danesh
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The Development of Mihrab Design and Ornamentation in the Central and West Asia: Circa 7th to 14th Centuries
Caitlin Doley
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Beyond Superficial Senescence: Art and Old Age in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Parshati Dutta
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Enabling Feminist Readings of History Through Architecture
Andrew Garside
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Research proposal: The Phenomena of Building New Churches for Miraculous Images in Late 15th Century Italy
Dawn Faizey-Webster
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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?
Fengyi Guo
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Collective Performances in Public Spaces: Constructing Identity through theBody in China's Avant-Garde (1983-1989)
Georgia Gerson
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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
Suzanne Heskin
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Reforming Female Autonomy: Fifteenth Century Sisters of the Franciscan Observant Reform in the Upper Rhine
Nausheen Hoosein
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From Umayyad Madinat al-Zahra to Almohad Seville: The Reuse of Caliphal Capitals in the Twelfth Century
Sarah Kemp
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The influence of trade, textiles, and patronage on the early portraiture of Thomas Gainsborough from his Ipswich period.
Catherine Khatsenkov
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The Performing Body: Sexuality, Identity, and Nostalgia in Ballet and Theatre in the Works of the Neo-Romantics, 1923-1972
Peter Kos
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Bartholomeus Spranger’s Mythological Paintings: Gender Play in Rudolfine Prague
Sarah Lear
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Designs in coloured light: The religious stained glass iconographies of Karl Parsons (1884-1934)
Man Li
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Peach Blossom Spring’ and ‘Great Unity’: the Representation of Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Art after 1978
Layla Lozano
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Early British Women Travellers to Ravenna and Their Impact Upon Early Studies of Byzantine Art
Peter Molloy
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From Ritual to Rapture: representations of the quest myth in mid-Victorian illustration.
Kim Newell
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Shifting patterns of taste and identity through iconographic analyses of mid-Victorian ceramics
Isaac Nugent
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Simulating antiquity: Monochrome faux antique façade painting from a cross European perspective (1530-1630)
Natalia Polunina
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Reflections of European Medieval Revival styles in Russian nineteenth-century architecture
Sara Poulton
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Frederic Leighton, A Reassessment of His life and Works Based Upon His Unpublished Correspondence.
Anna Pratley
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A new type of women's work: the rise of the quasi-professional woman limner in England, ca.1650-1750
Candace Reilly
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The Eye of Its Beholder: A Medical and Scientific Study of Religious Visuality and Image Agency in Thirteenth Century England
Giulia Schirripa
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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
Christopher Sheldon
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The Persistence of Modernity; Railways Art and Relativity
Michael Smith
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John Flaxman: art, design and the intermedial body
Helen Sutcliffe
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An Ecological Art History: The Seventeenth-Century Cloth Industry and the Environment in the Low Countries
Elena Sinagra
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Women's art collectives in 1970s Italy: Use of mythology and antiquity in their artistic practices
Ruth Spindlow
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Conversations in Stone: The Narratives of York Minster’s Post-Reformation Memorial Sculptures
Leah Tharpe
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Mining (in) the gap: Nineteenth Century Traveller-Artists in the Anglo-Prone Frontier
Isabelle Tracy
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What Kinds of British Art History Might Be Able To Account For The Artist Banksy?
Robyn Valentine
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Convent Thoughts: Community and Religion in the Works of Charles Allston Collins.
Zhixuan Wang
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The afterimages of a deceased dynasty: The circulation of late Qing photography in the age of decolonisation
Elizabeth Waring
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Most Women have no Characters at all': Gender and Agency in Godfrey Kneller’s Portraits of Women 1676-1723
Wei Zhang
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The World, Maps and Geographic Imagery in Children¿s Pictorials of Modern China, 1902-1936
Yuxuan Xiao
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The Privately Founded Contemporary Art Museum’s Social Responsibility and Cultural Function in China
Archie Williams
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Investigating the changing relationship between UNESCO and the national government of the Republic of Uzbekistan on policy towards built heritage, 1991-2016
Jun Zhang
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Contemporary Artworks Based on Chinese Characters Since the 85 New Wave