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Our current PhD students
In History at Exeter we're proud of the research carried out by our PhD students. There are currently around 90 PhD students in the Department, many of whom maintain an online personal profile detailing their research activities. Follow the links below to find out more about them and their research projects.
| Student | Research title | Lead supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Asma Alshaiban | The depiction of women in the historical work of Ibn Wasil | Professor Simon Barton |
| Desmond Atkinson | Education, Public Service and Reform: John Morton and the Making of a New Monarchy in Fifteenth-Century England | Professor James Clark |
| Andrew Binding | Living at Home: People, Spaces, and the Changing Domestic Environment in the Early Modern South West England. | Professor Jane Whittle |
| Emily Bridger | South Africa's Female Comrades: Gender, Identity and Student Resistance to Apartheid in Soweto, 1984-1990 | Dr Stacey Hynd |
| Anna Calori | The cancellation of the working class: an analysis of privatisation in the former Yugoslavia from a bottom-up perspective | Professor James Mark |
| Thomas Chadwick | Men of 'high emotion'? emotion in Anglo-Norman society of the Eleventh and Twelfth centuries | Professor Sarah Hamilton |
| Hannah Charnock | Adolescent sexuality in Britain, c. 1960-1980. | Professor Kate Fisher |
| Philip Child | The Heights of Modernity: Affluence, the Labour Party and the Modern Home 1945-1970. | Professor Andrew Thorpe |
| Rachel Chin | Anglo-French Relations and Mers El-Kebir: Rhetorical Justification and Imperial Associations. | Professor Martin Thomas |
| Hannah Clark | From Melton Mowbray to Middleburg: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues in Fashionable Foxhunting, 1870-1930 | Professor Henry French |
| Rowena Cockett | The experience, value, and expression of emotions in thirteenth-century Iberia | Professor Simon Barton |
| Richard Cooke | Professor Jane Whittle | |
| Frederick Cooper | A panacea for psychological ill-health? The identification and management of work-life conflict after World War Two | Professor Mark Jackson |
| Jessica Desmond | A Hidden World: The Presence of the Medieval Calendar in English Misericord Iconography. | Professor James Clark |
| Imogene Dudley | Women's Work Early Modern England, 1500-1700 | Professor Jane Whittle |
| Andrew English | The Laird Rams: Warships in Transition | Professor Jeremy Black |
| Rhoda Evans | Professor Martin Thomas | |
| Natasha Feiner | Lifestyle, health and disease: changing concepts of balance in modern medicine | Professor Mark Jackson |
| Thomas Fidler | Cornwall's Border – Celtic Frontier or Anglicised Territory? | Dr Garry Tregidga |
| Lorena Fierro Diaz | A Comparative Study of Queenship and Aristocratic Women’s Networks of Power in Twelfth-Century Iberia | Professor Simon Barton |
| Tomas Foster | Generational Defiance to the Kemalist Establishment from the Left, Marxist Youths in Turkey between 1960 and 1980 | Professor James Mark |
| Paul Freer | Assess the contribution made by the development of target marking techniques to the prosecution of the bomber offensive during WW2. | Professor Richard Overy |
| Helen Frost | The Representation of the Strategic Bombing Campaign against Germany in the Allied (both national and international) Media and the Interpretation and Reception of that Representation by the General Public, 1939-1945. | Professor Richard Overy |
| Tank Green | From British Subject to Colonial Immigrant: A Study of Transposed Identities, 1939 to 1981 | Professor Andrew Thompson |
| Austen Hamilton | Speculative House Builders as Entrepreneurs in Georgian London | Professor Henry French |
| Frankie Harding | The British Black Power Movement 1967-1974, an Oral and Documented History. | Professor Andrew Thorpe |
| Marion Hardy | People on the move in Devon, c.1572/1598 to c.1800 | Professor Jane Whittle |
| Richard Harris | Civil Society in Cornwall. | Dr Garry Tregidga |
| Matthew Heaslip | The impact of financial cutbacks and restrictions upon the ability of the Royal Navy to realign itself, during the 1920's, to meet the challenges of the early Interwar period. | Dr Tehyun Ma |
| Richard Hill | The development and use of aircraft and armoured vehicles during the First World War | Professor Richard Toye |
| Max Hodgson | ||
| Benjamin Holmes | The efforts of British charities to relieve German civilians, from the start of the war in 1914, to post-war releif work carried on into the mid-1920s. | Dr Catriona Pennell |
| Derek Janes | The business of smuggling in SE Scotland c.1740-1796. | Professor Henry French |
| Reiko Kanazawa | Professor Mark Jackson | |
| Nicos Kefalas | Superfoods, supplements and masculinity 1950s-present | Professor Mark Jackson |
| Ryan Kemp | ||
| Rhian Keyse | Forced and Early Marriage in British Colonial Africa, 1925-62. | Dr Stacey Hynd |
| Betsy Lewisholmes | Health, Fitness and Exercise for Girls in late Victorian England | Dr Sarah Toulalan |
| Dianne Elizabeth Long | Designed Landscapes of Industrialists 1700 – c.1820 | Professor Henry French |
| Jasmine Losasso | ||
| Stephen Lynam | Centre-Right Politics in the Spanish Province of Valencia 1931-1936. | Dr Tim Rees |
| Simon Magus | Esoteric Thought in the Life and Work of H. Rider Haggard. | Dr Paul Young |
| Charmian Mansell | English Maidservants in The Early Modern Community, 1550-1650 | Professor Jane Whittle |
| Henry Marsh | The examination of the representation and narration of ritual and ceremony within several chronicles of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century | Professor James Clark |
| Clare Maudling | Utopian Dreams or Peacetime Pragmatism? The successes and constraints of post-war reconstruction in the South West | Professor Richard Overy |
| Lilian McNaught | The 1816 Barbados Slave Revolt | Dr Kristofer Allerfeldt |
| Stuart Mole | The Commonwealth & Apartheid | Professor Andrew Thompson |
| Angela Muir | Unwanted pregnancies in Early Modern England and Wales: Illegitimacy, courtship, infanticide and contraception. | Dr Sarah Toulalan |
| Robert Nantes | Bankruptcy in eighteenth century England: A social account. | Professor Henry French |
| Elizabeth Neale | ||
| Amanda Phipps | The use of Theatre in Teaching the First World War | Dr Catriona Pennell |
| Lyndy (Carolyn) Pooley | The role of youth voluntary action in 1960s Britain: assumptions of community in a restless decade | Professor Mark Jackson |
| Elizabeth Raikes | Battleground to Playground: The British in Corsica 1794-1939. | Professor Andrew Thompson |
| Joshua Rhodes | Subtenancy in early modern England | Professor Henry French |
| Amy Ridgway | Wage labour and poverty on a Dorset estate, c.1680-1834 | Professor Jane Whittle |
| Geoffrey Skinner | The Relationship Divided. Identity, Personality and Realism in the development of Anglo-American Nuclear Strategy, 1947 to 1958 | Professor Richard Toye |
| Guy Solomon | The Living Standards of Tyneside Miners during the British Industrial Revolution | Professor Mark Overton |
| Catherine Talbot | Trans-Atlantic Consumerism in the 18th Century: A comparative Study of the Material Culture of Ordinary People in Britain and her American Colonies. | Professor Jane Whittle |
| Michael Tedstone | P.& A.CAMPBELL LTD - PASSENGER STEAMSHIP OWNERS RAPID GROWTH IN THE 1890s | Professor Alan Booth |
| Joanna Thomas | Britain’s seafaring men and women: an analysis of the maritime labour force 1850 – 1911 | Professor Maria Fusaro |
| Teresa Tinsley | Hernando de Baeza. | Professor Simon Barton |
| Balint Tolmar | The “Adria”-Project: East-South Relations and the European Socialist Countries' Quest for Energy Security in the Post-Oil Shock Era | Professor James Mark |
| James Villalard | Dgieu Sauve Le Roé, Nouot' Duc!”: A Re-assessment of the strategic position and tactical role of the Channel Islands during the Great French War (1792-1815). | Professor Jeremy Black |
| Michelle Webb | 'As fowle a ladie as the smale pox could make her': facial disfigurement in sixteenth and seventeenth century England | Dr Sarah Toulalan |
| Paul Williams | The Trading Community of Exeter 1470-1570 | Professor Jane Whittle |
| Teresa Witcombe | The intellectual life of Mauricius Hispanus (1209-1238) | Professor Simon Barton |
| Fahriye Yildizeli | 'W.E.Gladstone and British Policy towards the Ottoman Empire' | Professor Richard Toye |