Student Research

Postgraduate Conferences

• Scandalous Histories An international conference for Postgraduates and Early Career Historians, 13-14 September 2013. 

• The Rude Body An international conference for Postgraduates and Early Career Historians, 14-15 September 2012.  Keynote Addresses by PROFESSOR VIC GATRELL (Life Fellow Caius College, Cambridge) and DR LAURA GOWING (King’s College London)

• Creating the Other - Postgraduate History Conference 2011

Dissertations and Prizes

Every year we award a prize for the best overall MA Dissertation and a prize for the best Local History MA Dissertation. One of our external examiners recently commented that "Some of the dissertations I examined were exemplary pieces of work, reflecting an extremely professional approach to supervision.”

MA Dissertation Prize

• 2012: Malte Hinrichsen, Trademark Stereotypes: Racial Images of Slavery, Orient and Colonialism in 20th Century Commodity Culture.
  Malte Hinrichsen has just published his first book Racist Trademarks based on this award-winning Dissertation.

John S Appleby Dissertation Prize

• 2012: Ian Yearsley, Migration into, out of and within the Rochford Hundred in Essex in 1881

BA Dissertation Prize

• 2012: Jennifer Axcell - What were the effects of the establishment of African-American entertainment venues and the growing entertainment industry, particularly the rise of ‘Classic’ and ‘Urban Blues’, on African-Americans during the First Great Migration, 1915 to1920?
• 2011: Tom Blowers - "Delusions of Grandeur?" – The 'Special Relationship' and How the British Perceived Their Role during the Cuban Missile Crisis (PDF file)

Pop Ronson Memorial Prize for Local History

• 2012: Kelly Llewellyn - ‘Remembering The Dead? What Do War Memorials in Essex Say About The Great War?’
• 2011: Susan Macdonald - Emma Howard (1840-1927): A socially organised life (PDF file)

 

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