Completed Research Theses

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PhD

Name	Title	Supervisor	Year
Victoria Holmes	Was the Englishman's castle a 'Death Trap';? Fatal accidents in the home, 1837-1920	Professor Edward Higgs	2013
Deirdre Heavens	Ipswich's administration in English Civil War	Professor John Walter	2013
Amanda Wilkinson	An examination of the cultural and social implications of women working away from the home in order to further understand the nature of under-enumeration in the census data between the years 1840 and 1944	Professor Edward Higgs	2012
Matthew Lucas	Anglo-American Nuclear (UN) Co-operation: The McMahon Act and its impact on the 'Special Relationship'	Dr Fiona Venn	2012
Alan Pryor	The history of the London brewing trade, 1750-1850	Professor James Raven/Dr Peter Gurney	2012
Hui-Man Lee	Hong Kong: A Window on Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century China	Professor Steve Smith	2012
Foster Sakala	A social history of women in the mine compounds of the Zambian copperbelt during the colonial period	Dr Jeremy Krikler	2011
Anne Folan	Public health in Ipswich, 1842-1900: The relationship between environment, social class and mortality	Professor Edward Higgs	2011
Michael Goodrum	Representations of masculinity in the superhero film post 9/11	Dr John Haynes	2011
Nina Schneider	Institutions and strategies of political propaganda during the military dictatorship in Brazil, 1964-1985	Dr Matthias Röhrig Assunção	2011
Name withheld	Is the ‘Free’ Press Free? French and British Control of the Rising Fourth Estate in a Colonial Context	Professor Edward Higgs	2010
Rochelle Rowe	Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Racialised Femininities Colour-Blind Nationalisms and Beauty Contests	Dr Peter Gurney	2010
Philippa Lane	‘Heroes as Ordinary People’: A Social and Cultural History of Political Imprisonment in South Africa, 1960-1992	Dr Jeremy Krikler	2010
Denise Guthrie	Law, Empire, and the Bodies of Women: ‘Civilization’ and the Retreat from Public Punishments in England, 1750-1870	Professor Vic Gatrell	2010
James English	The Rise and Fall of Empire Day: An Exploration of a Global Imperial Festival	Dr Jeremy Krikler	2010
Dagmar Engelken	The Labour Movement and the Chinese Labour Question in Britain and South Africa 1900-1914	Dr Jeremy Krikler	2010
Rachel Duffett	A War Unimagined: Food and the Rank and File Soldiers of the First World War	Professor Steve Smith/Dr Mike Roper	2009
Paul Newton-Taylor	Residential persistence in rural Victorian England: a comparative study of seven Kent parishes	Richard Wall	2008
John Ashdown-Hill	The client network, connections and patronage of Sir John Howard (Lord Howard, first Duke of Norfolk) in north-east Essex and south Suffolk	Dr Chris Thornton	2008
Paul Glenister	Infant Mortality in England 1890-1913: A Study of Five Urban Areas	Dr Edward Higgs	2007
Douglas East	The Great Missal of Abbot Nicholas de Litlyngton	Dr Herbert Eiden	2007
Carole Williams	Ideology and identity: married women's diaries c.1820-1900.	Dr Alison Rowlands	2006
Christina Schröder	Queues, complaints, dissatisfaction: politics and culture of consumption in the German Democratic Republic, 1970-1990	Dr Rainer Schulze	2006
Simon Pirani	Relations between workers and the Communist Party in Moscow, 1920-24	Professor Steve Smith	2006
Margaret Graham	The origins, history and development of the Podiatry Association in England, c. 1969-1996	Dr Catherine Crawford	2006
Mark Felton	Resistance in exile: Sitting Bull and the Hunkpapa Sioux in Canada, 1876-1881	Dr Mary Ellen Curtin	2006
Bronwen Cook	Maritime trade of the port of Maldon c. 1568-1668	Professor John Walter	2006
Matthew Woollard	Historical conceptions of occupations through use of classification schemes, 1662-1921	Dr Edward Higgs	2005
Susan Lomax	The department store and production of the spectacle (Britain 1880 –1950)	Professor Jules Lubbock	2005
Manuel Barcia Paz	Domination and Slave Resistance on Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848	Dr Matthias Röhrig Assunção	2005
Rachel Rich	Bourgeois consumption: food and space in London and Paris, 1850-1914	Professor Goeffrey Crossick	2005
Hansu Lyu	Industrial relations on the shop floor: Petrograd, 1918-21	Professor Steve Smith	2005
David Borg-Muscat	Family, gender and domestic violence in eighteenth-century Malta	Dr Joan Davies	2004
Vivienne Newman	Women poets of the Great War	Dr P Cox	2004
Athanasios Gekas	The merchant elite of the Ionian Islands under British rule, 1815-1864	Professor Kevin Schurer	2004
Malcolm McLaughlin	East St Louis and the race riot of 1917	Dr Jeremy Krikler	2004
Wendy Gagen	Experience of disabled men in the first world war	Dr Peter Gurney	2004
Christine Jones	Those whom God hath not joined: a study of never-married people in England and Wales in the 19^th century	Professor Kevin Schurer	2004
Hensook Kim	Charitable associations in Colchester 1800-1870	Dr Edward Higgs	2004
Amanda Flather	The local origins of national identity	Professor J Walter	2002
Matthew Houlbrook	"A sun among cities": space, identities and queer male practices, London 1918-57	Professor G J Crossick and Dr Pam Cox	2002
Lisa Smith	Women’s health care in England and France (1650-1770)	Dr C Crawford	2001
Silvia Sovic	Peasant communities, local economies and household composition in 19th-century Slovenia	Professor Kevin Schurer	2001
Silvestre Villegas	Mexico’s British debt 1824-1884 and the question of diplomatic rupture and restoration	Professor B Hamnett	2001
Margaret Butler	Images of community in British and French cinema 1939-1951	Professor G J Crossick	2000
Julie Gammon	Ravishment and ruin: the construction of stories of sexual violence in England, c. 1640-1820	Professor A Fletcher	2000
Angela Jackson	British women and the Spanish Civil War c. 1936-1939	Professor G J Crossick	2000
Bernice Archer	A study of civilian internment by the Japanese in the Far East, 1941-45	Professor Steve Smith	1999
Aviva Cohen	The impact of Franz Brentano’s intentionality thesis on the psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud	Dr C Crawford	1998
Hisao Ishizuka	William Blake and eighteenth century medicine (under the title "The Anatomy of Blake").	Dr C Crawford	1998
Irina Korovushkina	Gender and family in the Old Believers’ discourse	Professor S A Smith	1998
Gilbert Morapedi	Key aspects of the agrarian history of Botswana, c. 1930-1965	Dr J Krikler	1998
Andrew Stevens	The institutional care and treatment of people categorised as mentally defective before and after the second world war: the Royal Eastern Counties Institution.	Dr C Crawford	1998
John Chircop	The British imperial network in the Mediterranean c. 1800-1870: a study of regional fragmentation and imperial integration	Dr F M Venn	1997
Robin Dixon	Reinterpretation of the Couvade	Professor L Jordanova	1997
Jane Pearson	The rural middle sort in an eighteenth-century Essex village: Great Tey c. 1660-1830	Professor J D Walter	1997
Paul Rusiecki	Conciliation and conflict in the West Yorkshire coalfield: The coal mining communities of the Lower Calder valley	Professor G J Crossick	1994
Ligia Bellini	Representations of the human body in sixteenth-century Portugal	Professor L J Jordanova	1992
Michael Bevan	The social context of medical practice: gynaecology in Glasgow c. 1850-1914	Professor L J Jordanova	1992
Mary James	The therapeutic practices of J M Charcot in their historical and social context	Professor L J Jordanova	1990
Hussein Al-Ghamdi	The Arab gulf countries in Egyptian strategy: A study of Muhammed Ali's ambitions and British responses; c. 1818-40	Dr F J Stanwood	1990
Christine Joscelyne	Medical practice and medical theory: Contagion and Smallpox in Britain during the long eighteenth century	Professor L J Jordanova	1990
Marjorie Nevill	Women and marriage breakdown in England, c. 1832-57	Professor L J Jordanova	1990
Abdullatif Al-Hameed	The Hejaz Railway c. 1900-1918: policy objectives and consequences	Dr F J Stanwood	1989
Mohammed Al-Khudhairi	The Sultanate of Muscat and the United States: A study of mutual co-operation between Sultan Said and the American merchants	Dr F M Venn	1989
Omer Al-Omery	The resident in the Gulf: British power in transition c. 1858-1872	Dr F J Stanwood	1989
Fatmar Al-Sayegh	Imperial air communications and British policy changes in the Trucial States, c. 1929-1952	Dr F M Venn	1989
Shani D'cruze	The middling sort in provincial England: politics and social relations in Colchester, c. 1730-1800	Professor G J Crossick	1989
Philip Hills	Division and cohesion in the nineteenth century middle class: the case of Ipswich, c. 1830-1870	Professor G J Crossick	1989
Christopher Johnson	A community study of a proto-industrial town: Coggeshall in Essex c. 1500-c.1750	Professor J D Walter	1989
Christopher Williams	Soviet public health: A case study of Leningrad, c. 1917-1932	Professor S A Smith	1989
Khalid Al-Khalifa	Commerce and conflict: The English East India Company factories in the Gulf, c. 1700-47	Dr Stanwood	1988
William Cliftlands	The 'well-affected' and the 'country': politics and religion in English provincial society c.1640-c.1654	Professor J D Walter	1988
Rodney Fotheringham	Inappropriate development, engineering ideology and the corporatist Vision in Italy c. 1890-1929	Dr Goodman	1988
Lynne Friedli	Crossing gender boundaries in eighteenth-century England	Professor L J Jordanova	1988
Naomi Pfeffer	Pronatalism and sterility c. 1900-1950	Professor L J Jordanova	1988
Deborah Simonton	The education and training of eighteenth-century English girls, with special reference to the working classes	Professor L J Jordanova	1988
Susan Smith	House arrest: prisoners' wives	Dr M McIntosh	1988
Eduardo Cavieres	Chilean trade and British traders, 1820-1879	Dr S Collier	1987
Susan Holly	Multinational oil Anglo-American defence policy and national security in the Persian Gulf, c. 1943-53	Dr Fiona Venn	1987
Maria Juca	Andre Reboucas (c. 1840-98). A study of his life and ideas in historical context	Dr S Collier and Dr Knight	1986
Christopher Ward	Russian cotton workers and the new economic policy	Professor S A Smith and G A Hosking	1986
Peronelle Willson	Women workers, scientific management and workers' welfare: the Magneti Marelli in the fascist period	Professor S J Woolf	1986
Mary Griffiths	The Housing of Ipswich c. 1840-1973	Dr P Thompson	1984
John Calderon	The confederation of Mexican workers, the independent unions and the state in Mexico c.1969-76	Dr A S Knight	1983
Michale Mullaney	The argentine Socialist Party c. 1890-1930: early development and internal schisms	Dr S Collier	1982
Malene Djursaa	The membership of 'Danmarks National Socialistiske Arbejder Parti' c.1930-1945	Professor S J Woolf	1980

MPhil

Name	Title	Supervisor	Year
Frank Bolton	Policing in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk in the 19th Century	Prof E Higgs	2011
Patricia Tate	Clerical masculinity in England, with particular focus on Essex and Suffolk, c.1620-c.1700	Dr A Rowlands	2007
Richard Barker	The apotheosis of the last stand genre: George Armstrong and the Battle of Little Big Horn	Dr F Venn	2001
Douglas East	A late fourteenth-century service book: The historiated and inhabited initials of the Great Missal (c. 1383-4) of Abbot Nicholas de Litlyngton	Professor G Martin	1998
Lionel Hopkins	The problems of the British iron & steel industry in the period c. 1900-1930 with special reference to its financial structure and performance	Professors S J Woolf and T Hatton (Econ)	1997
Roger Taylor	Charles Finney, 1792-1875 and Potto Brown, c. 1797-1871	Professor H Brogan	1996
Mervyn Woodgate	The National Agricultural Labourers' Union and the politicisation of farmworkers in North Essex c. 1872-1894	Dr A F J Brown	1993
John Hodgkins	Nonconformists in the suburbs: congregationalism in Essex c. 1800-1972	Dr A F J Brown	1987
Carmen Liendo-Do-Sanchez	A comparative analysis of two Venezuelan dictatorships: the regimes of Juan Vicente Gomez and Marcos Perez Jimenez	Dr S Collier	1984
D Hughes	Moral problems in the works of Vladimir Tendryakov	Dr G A Hosking	1980
Kenneth Fox	A study of military aid to the civil power in regency England	Professor S J Woolf	1978

MA by Dissertation

Name	Title	Supervisor	Year

Alan Pryor	Politics and economics in the London sugar trade, 1670-1904	Dr Peter Gurney	2007
Roger Bullen	Mersea Island in the Second World War	Dr Christopher Thornton	2006
Marion Gibrill	History of African Americans in mainstream US advertising throughout the 20^th century		2005
Pam Rollason	Medical care and the Essex poor 1750-1834		2003
Michael Stone	The contribution to society made by Anglican clergy of gentry family in rural Suffolk during 1790-1840	Professor John Walter	2003
Damian O'Connor	Sir Bartle Frere and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879	Dr J Krikler	2001
Roger Beckett	Economic and social aspects of the Essex coastal trade within the period c. 1700-1900	Professor K Schürer	2000
Peter Hall-Garrett	Interaction within the rural society of west Essex, 1800-1850: the case of Capel Cure, the Blake Hall estate and the Chipping Ongar district	Dr S Hussey	2000
Elizabeth Kemp-Luck	The development and failure of Dovercourt Bay, Essex as a seaside resort during the 19th century	Dr A F Brown	2000
Allan Berry	The freedom of Sudbury, Suffolk, in the eighteenth century	Professor J D Walter	1998
Thomas Davis	The Italian resistance in the Second World War in fact and in fiction	Dr F M Venn	1996
Steven Potter	The location of the Domesday Manors in Purleigh, Essex	Professor G Martin	1996
Patricia Ryan	Brick in Essex, from the Roman Conquest to c. 1540	Professor G Martin	1996
Mutsumi Sato	Women of art and nature: representation of the feminine ideal through fashion in Britain c. 1850-1900	Dr C Crawford	1995
Mark Williams	Freedom without licence: family attitudes towards liberated women in America, c. 1830-1860	Professor H Brogan	1995
Sung-Soo Kim	Sok Hon Ham's understanding of Taoism and Quakerism	Professor S A Smith	1994

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