We have more than 60 postgraduate researchers currently studying at the History Research Centre.
Here you can meet some of our community and find out more about their research.
PhDs
Adam Aderman - Psychological Trauma from War in the Roman Empire - Supervisor: Dr April Pudsey
Nathan Atherton - Gardens and Gardening in the Early Modern North West - Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Hurlock
David Barrett - A Comparative Study of the Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor in Cockney London, Manchester, and Glasgow 1900-1918 as Evidence in the Lyrics of Popular Music Hall Songs of the Period - Supervisor: Dr Marcus Morris
Dominic Barron Carter - The Politics of Participation : reconstructing political movements by retracing the notion of participation from radical socio-political movements of 19th century Britain to the present day - Supervisor: Dr Marcus Morris
Stephanie Boydell - The Arts and Crafts movement in late nineteenth century Manchester: production, consumption and idealism in Britain’s “shock city” - Supervisor: Prof Jon Stobart
Nicola Bradbury - Crime and Policing in a Coastal Town: Scarborough 1880-1930 - Supervisor: Prof Heather Shore
Helen Brown - Rethinking the Country House Garden, 17850-1850: Creation and Consumption - Supervisor: Prof Jon Stobart
Dianne Bumby - The 2014 changes to the History National Curriculum in Key Stage 2 and their impact on educational opportunities in Heritage/History sectors - Supervisor: Dr Ben Edwards
Isaac Carreon - Anna Maria Luisa de Medici - Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Spangler
Andrew Carter - The Use and Abuse of Ancient Sport in the Development of Victorian Sport - Supervisor: Prof Dave Day
Ernesto Diaz - Perspectivism and Wicked Problems: Patters in the Discovery Process of Leibniz, Bohr and Turing - Supervisor: Prof Lloyd Strickland
Steven Dickens - From Rural Parish to Modern Day Suburb: How Economic, Social and Demographic Changes Shaped the Lancashire Village of Flixton, 1841-1939 - Supervisor: Dr Craig Horner
Adele Douglas - Peterloo in Manchester; Memory, Legacy, and Local Identity 1819-2019 - Supervisor: Dr Sam Edwards
Corey Estensen - Motors and Flyers: the extraordinary World War One career of Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton - Supervisor: Dr Sam Edwards
Ade Feerick - Returning home – Soldier’s experiences following World War Two and the support networks they utilised to survive’ - Supervisor: Dr Sam Edwards
Anna Fielding - Commensal Dining in Gentry Houses, 1450-1750 - Supervisor: Dr Rosamund Oates
Thomas Fretwell - Christian Zionism and Supersessionism in the 21st Century: A Historical, Theological and Political Investigation - Supervisor: Dr Andy Crome
David Galindo - From ‘Remember the Alamo!’ to ‘Go Spurs Go!’: a social history of San Antonio - Supervisor: Prof Dave Day
Yaron Golan - The Co-operative Character: reinventing community by retracing the genealogy of character in the British - Supervisor: Dr Keith Crome
Stephen Harper - The End of the Protectorate in Northern England: 1658-1660 - Supervisor: Dr Rosamund Oates
Sarah Hitchen - Lunacy, Frenzy and Non Compos Mentis: Schizophrenia and Cognitive Dissonance in Early Modern England - Supervisor: Dr Rosamund Oates
Katrina Ingram - Veterans in Medieval Literature - Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Hurlock
Lauren Johnson - Refugees, Religion and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe - Supervisor: Prof Catherine Fletcher
Robert Jones - The Lived Experience of Disability and Deforming in Ancient Greece - Supervisor: Dr Jason Crowley
Haseeb Khan - Seeking a long history of British Muslim identity in the North West of England - Supervisor: Prof Heather Shore
Dean Kirby - Angel Meadow: An investigation into the origin and persistence of Victorian Manchester’s “hell on earth” slum - Supervisor: Dr Craig Horner
Joseph Massey - A union made in my blood: hereditary right, Anglo-Scottish union and the Jacobean manipulation of British history - Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Spangler
Liam McCaffrey - The ontological assumptions of computational humour and their ethical consequences - Supervisor: Dr Anna Bergqvist
Sarah Norton - Kingship in the Middle Ages: Politics, Thought and Evolution in England, 1422-1509 -Supervisor: Dr kathryn Hurlock
Simon Olsen - From hubris to catastrophe: British Counterinsurgency and Combat Trauma in Afghanistan, 2001-11 -Supervisor: Dr Sam Edwards
Luke Quinn - Mongol Involvement in the Crusades - Supervisor: Dr Jason T. Roche
Nathan Read - A Revelation Concerning Evil - Supervisor: Prof Lloyd Strickland
Catherine Rees - Histories of death in prehistoric and Romano-British Wales – people, material culture, beliefs and special places - Supervisor: Dr Seren Griffiths
Lauren Rees - Egyptomania in the 21st Century and its effect on modern - Supervisor: Dr Jenny Cromwell
Stephen Roberts - The Great War and the people of Wirral in Cheshire, c. 1911-1925 - Supervisor: Dr Sam Edwards
Jake Sheppard - Race, Nation and Memory in England and America: C.S.S. Alabama and the ‘Anglo-American Commons’ c. 1860-1914 - Supervisor: Dr Sam Edwards
Alice Short - Heidegger and Graffiti: Graffiti as a Poetic Reaction against the Nihilistic Nature of the Modern Technological Age and the Instrumentality of Modern Urban Planning - Supervisor: Prof Ulli Haase
Paige Simpson - A Theological Approach to the Holocaust: How can we reconcile this atrocious act of evil with a belief in God? - Supervisor: Prof Lloyd Strickland
Geoff Swallow - The Affair in the West: modernity territory and identity in the West of England circuit of annual swimming - Supervisor: Prof Dave Day
Kenneth Sweeney - Re-evaluating the Philosophy of Higher Education: Embracing Hellenistic Philosophy (Virtue Ethics and Stoic Principles) and Eastern Philosophy (Daoism and Mindfulness) to Find Fulfilment and Purpose in Study and Establish Wider Values and Flourishing for the Individual - Supervisor: Dr Anna Bregqvist
Michael Woods - Mounds in a Dark Grove: A landscape study utilizing multi-modal geophysical survey and modern imaging techniques to investigate the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age monuments located within the watershed of the river Afon Braint on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales - Supervisor: Dr Ben Edwards
Sid Ahmed Ziane - Ebony and Black Power: Reflection and Reaction of John H. Johnson, Ebony, and its editors to the Black Power Movement, 1966-1996 - Supervisor: Dr Marie Molloy
Tracey May Boyce - Imperialism, Orientalism and Patriotism in Manchester’s Nineteenth Century Visual Spectacles
Supervisor - Craig Horner
Samantha Nelson - Women, Warfare, and the Tudor Regimes, c.1485-1603
Supervisor - Professor Catherine Fletcher
Jodie Neville - Female Football Coaches: Revealing, Recording and Representing an Intangible Cultural Heritage
Supervisor - Professor Dave Day
Paula Martin - Global connections and local contexts: the material culture of Saltram, c. 1725-1840.
Supervisor - Jon Stobart
Suzanne Cloves - Now Hear Then: introducing geolocated sound to explore the effect of intangible heritage on place attachment, community cohesion and habitat custodianship
Supervisor - Ben Edwards
Tobin O’Connor - How has the post-war ideological identity of the British Labour Party evolved and changed through the political factions that control the movement?
Supervisor - Marcus Morris
Louise Parker - The Development of the English Borstal System 1894 to 1908
Supervisor - Heather Shore
Paul Goad - The British Milers Club 1963 – 1984
Supervisor - Professor Dave Day
Peter Norman - Irish Republican Activity in England and the Failed Rising of 1867
Supervisor - Dr. Stuart Aveyard
Michael Sparks - Ab Barbarus Ad Romanus: Investigation into The Changing Nature of Provincial Resistance Against Roman Imperial Authority 58BCE To 275CE
Supervisor - Ben Edwards
Vince Hunt - Shining a light ‘now’ into the darkness of lived experience ‘then’ in Soviet Latvia 1940–49 in the published monograph Up Against the Wall – the KGB and Latvia (Helion, 2019). A critical analysis of data-gathering and narrative methods used in navigating an incomplete, violent and contested Eastern European past from a post-totalitarian Western-outsider journalistic perspective at the intersections of journalism and oral history, history, memory studies, social research methods and narrative theory. This critical analysis has led to the development of a proposed multi-disciplinary theoretical technique of writing about the past currently titled Historical Discovery Journalism.
Supervisor - Dr Geoff Walton
Jemma Lakmaker -The Social Integration of Ex-Servicemen with Military Induced Hearing Loss, post-1918
Supervisor - Sam Edwards
Derek Martin - In the Long Run: Pedestrianism 1660-1887
Supervisor - Prof Dave Day
Sarah Kathleen Hitchen - Lunacy, Frenzy and Non Compos Mentis: Schizophrenia and Cognitive Dissonance in Early Modern England
Supervisor - Dr Rosamund Oates
Mohammed Khan - Seeking a long history of British Muslim Identity: Muslims in the North West of England, 1870-1950
Supervisor - Professor Heather Shore
Jack Beesley - The Glorious Sexual Revolution: William III and the Expression of Queer Subjectivities in Early Modern Britain
Supervisor - Dr. Jonathan Spangler
Shuwen Wang - Giuseppe Castiglione’s Paintings: The Transmission and Transformation of European Painting Techniques in Eighteenth-Century China.
Supervisor - Carl Kilcourse
Rolanda Aboagye - The Unsung Heroes: Contributions of Migrants towards the Development of Rome (1AD- 2AD)
Supervisor - Dr April Pudsey
Alexander Davy - Exploitation, Domination, Racism or Cultural Genocide? Influences and Motivations behind Imperial Britain’s Implementation of Ecocide, 1870-1914.
Supervisor - Marcus Morris
Luca Cheli Bianchini - The Murder of Giulia Colombi: pride, honour, and social manoeuvre
Supervisor - Catherine Fletcher
Matthew Dodd - Reinflating the Pragmatic View of Thick Evaluative Terms and Concepts
Supervisor - Dr Anna Bergqvist
Vincent Squance - Illness and Moral Transformation: A Philosophical Phenomenological Inquiry into the Effect of Illness on Virtue and Moral Wisdom
Supervisor - Dr Anna Bergqvist
Brett Wilson - The Creativity of Life, Meaning and Duration: the Nature of the Boundary between Metaphysics and Science
Supervisor - Dr Wahida Khandker
Masters by research
Nicola Higgins - Civic responsibility and involvement: middle class activity in Manchester c. 1880-1850 reflected in the activities of the early proprietors of the Portico Library and Newsroom - Supervisor: Dr Craig Horner
Tracey Boyce - Staging the Empire in Manchester, 1870-1910 - Supervisor: Dr Craig Horner
Davide Piccirillo - The Samnite People of Pre-Roman Italy - Supervisor: Dr Jason Crowley
Nicola Smith - Recovery & Rehabilitation: Healing the wounded and disabled ex-servicemen of Lancashire during the Great War - Supervisor: Dr Marcus Morris
Victoria Watkinson-Roberts - In Defence of the Faith: Examining Anti-Catholic conflict in working class communities in Liverpool, Manchester, and Lancashire 1840-1914 - Supervisor: Dr Andy Crome