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Postgraduate researchers

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Gender and social history; material culture and jewelry, consumption, 

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Changing Allegiance in Aquitaine During the Hundred Years War, c.1337–1453

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Sensory Environments 1500-1750

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Memories of English Civil War on royalism

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Maronite Christian relations with Muslims in the Seventh Century

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Women and scientific subcultures in British mycology 1896-1948

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The US South during the Second World War, the development of the welfare state, Japanese American incarceration, and German prisoners of war held in the United States.

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Despair and Desperation in Early Modern England

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Fountains of Knowledge: middling women’s engagement with the production, use and transmission of Natural Knowledge, 1740-1810

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Eighteenth-Century British Merchant Commercial Practice and Wokring Culture

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Sensing Sex: The Sensory Experience of Sex Work in Early Modern London, 1660-1824

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Redefining the Medical Fringe: A Visual and Textual Analysis of Medical Advertisements in English Newspapers (1770-1870)

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Narratives of Trust and Relationships Under Pressure in Late Medieval Church Courts

Keely Hayes Davies

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Pageantry, Power and Pastime: The Reconstruction of a Henrician Progress

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Objects, Space, and the Household in Late Medieval Probate Inventories

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The Rhetorics Poison: Poison, Witchcraft, and Sexual Deviance in the English Political
Imagination 1615-1660

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Managing 'private' diseases in seventeeth century London

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Plants in the Wrong Place? Weeds and weeding in Britain 1800 - 1910

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Rats in the city: Black Rats, Brown Rats, Humans and Others in Early Modern London and Amsterdam


Supervisors: Mark Jenner & David Orton

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Pyrethrum in Japan: A History of Rise and Fall, 1880s-1940s

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The Meanings of Excrements in England and the German countries 1470-1720

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Mary and her books: the religion, patronage and agency of England's first queen regnant, 1516 - 1558

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Between Worlds: Kenneth Cantlie and locomotive engineering in Africa, the Americas and Asia

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Hygienic Prisons: Sanitation, Healthcare and Rehabilitation, Eastern Bengal (c. 1890-1970)

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Stationers' Company social networks c.1600-50

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Contemporary Collecting in English Museums and Heritage Sites

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Seventeenth-Century Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic

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Arab and Iranian activism and solidarity campaigns in Britain during the Long Sixties, 1960-1980

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LCAB PhD Studentship in Statistics, Computing and Environmental Knowledge in the 20th Century

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18th century Russia, Queenship, Queer History

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The microscope and the construction of scientific and medical knowledge, 1660-1830.

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Technology, Culture and Public History: The Digital Ecosystem as a Habitat for History

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"Once a Tankie, Always a Tankie:" Dehumanisation and War Inside a British tank, 1937-1947

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Heroines and Victims: how was the category of “comfort women” created in China?

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The Influence of Indirect Translation on Chinese Thought: Western Translation through Japanese, 1896-1949

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Moral control and families in the Small Council Records of Geneva in the 16th century