Students

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

Featured PhDs

  • David Barrett

    Cockney-styled musical hall entertainers relationship with their regional audiences

  • Lauren Rees

    21st century Egypotomania and its effect on perceptions of ancient Egypt

  • Nicola Higgins

    The Portico Library and its connection to Mancunian middle-class cultural values

  • Andy Carter

    The Use and Abuse of Ancient History in Victorian Sport

  • Adele Douglas

    Peterloo in Manchester; Memory, Legacy and Local Identity 1819-2019

  • Nicola Bradbury

    Crime and policing in a coastal town: Scarborough 1880-1930