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
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The Articulation of Hong Kong Art and Hongkonger Identity in Outward-facing Exhibitions in the 1960s–80s
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
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Publishing Transnational Dada: Transmission, Mediation, and the Making of a Movement, 1916–1989
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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 1676-1723Archie 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