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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)

Aishwarya Anam

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

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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

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

Amélie Castellanet

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The Haptic Sense in the Dada movement

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The Articulation of Hong Kong Art and Hongkonger Identity in Outward-facing Exhibitions in the 1960s–80s

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Exporting J.M.W. Turner, ca. 1910–1966

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?

Andrew Garside

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Research proposal: The Phenomena of Building New Churches for Miraculous Images in Late 15th Century Italy

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

Izabella Gill-Brown

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British Victorian Busts

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Publishing Transnational Dada: Transmission, Mediation, and the Making of a Movement, 1916–1989

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Breaking the Slab Glass Mould: Women Stained Glass Artists in the Arts & Crafts (1889-1939)

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

Kydd Adam

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al-Ukhaidir and the 'Desert Castles'

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Designs in coloured light : Subtle subversion and the art of stained glass in the iconographies of Arts & Crafts artist Karl Parsons (1884-1934)

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Contemporary art; digital art; performance art; feminism; curatorial practice in contemporary art; cultural studies

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Gamekeepers' Clothing in England North Country, 1880-1939

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.

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Fashion history, heritage crafts, deindustrialization, luxury industries, bespoke tailoring

Isaac Nugent

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The Painted City: Rethinking Façade Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice.

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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"The Writing Italian Feminism", a project investigating artists’ writings and artists’ books by women involved in the feminist movement in Italy from the 1970s to the 1980s. 

Christopher Sheldon

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The Persistence of Modernity; Railways Art and Relativity

Elena Sinagra

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Artists from the 1970s to the present who reinterpret classical mythology through feminist frameworks, positioning such practices as critical interventions.

Michael Smith

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John Flaxman: art, design and the intermedial body

Ruth Spindlow

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

Helen Sutcliffe

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Imagining Linen Cloth in the Northern Netherlands, 1620–1680

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

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

Matthew Wood

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'Magnificence and Convenience': Sir Thomas Robinson at Castle Howard 1728 - 1759

Yuxuan Xiao

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Non-Selling Exhibitions and the Politics of Visibility in London Auction Houses

Wei Zhang

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