Current PhD students

  • John Ayshford - 'On Liberty and Virtue: unearthing John Stuart Mill's Republicanism'
  • Scott Backrath - 'Global Biopiracy in the Age of Empire: Indigeneity, Decolonisation, and the Politics of Botanical Knowledge in the British World, c.1600-1800'
  • Samuel Barber - 'Urban Heresy: Perceptions, Portrayals, and Punishments in Toulouse and Albi-1150 - 1321'
  • Inigo Bing - 'What was the Impact of Claud Cockburn on Communism and the Left in Britain and the USA, 1929 - 1951'
  • Timothy Cheuk Yin Chan - 'Britain's "Loss of China"? Revisiting the Hong Kong Mint through a Global Perspective, 1841-1870' 
  • Claire Chevalier-Nash - ‘At First Taste: Learning to Cook, Gender and Family in Britain, 1920-1960’
  • Benjamin Constanty - ‘From Plantation Slavery to Imperial Labour: Exploiting Workers in Britain, India and Australia’
  • Helen Corlett - 'Through a family lens: life, identity and aspiration in north-west England (c.1790-1880)'
  • William Curtis - 'Lombard Identity in a Post-Lombard World: Mainland Southern Italy c.1050-1130'
  • Eyüp Ensar Dal - ‘Early Modern Ottoman Parenthood: Emotions, Family, and Law in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul’
  • Camilla De Koning - 'Royal Enterprise: Reconsidering the Crown's Engagement in Britain's Emerging Empire, 1660-1775'
  • Lucy Elliott - 'Sleeping well in the early modern world: an environmental approach to the history of sleep care'
  • Ari Epstein - ‘Don't Tread on Me: A History of the American Revolution's Influence on Conservatism’
  • Katherine Fliegel - 'For the Love of God: Male Cross-Dressing and Religion in Pagan Anglo-Saxon England'
  • Jake Gandy - 'Making Multi-racial England: Race, Class and Space c. 1968 - 1990'
  • Jun Gao - 'Huanshu (illusion) in China: From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century'
  • Abhinava Goswami - 'Sport in the City and the City in Sport: Football, Urbanity and Belonging in Calcutta in the Twentieth Century'
  • William Hambly - 'The Mediterranean Viking Age c.1000-c.1150'
  • Jennifer Haywood - 'Queer Beside the Sea: Male Homosexuality in British Coastal Resorts, 1918 - 1990'
  • Vendula Hoppe - 'Velvets in Renaissance Europe: Making Consumerist Cultures 1400-1700'
  • Lucia Inglehearn Ambler - 'Models of Religious Communal Life in the Fourteenth-Century Rhineland and the Low Countries'
  • Isma'il Abdulhamid Inuwa - 'The Vernacular Historiography of Kano: History of Historical Writings from Chronicle to 2010'
  • Kamalpreet Kaur - ‘Starving Bodies, Disappearing Flesh: Hunger Strikes as a Mode of Political Resistance in Colonial and Postcolonial India’
  • Joseph Manock - 'Famines, Epidemics and Emotions in Colonial India, 1871-1921'
  • Melanie McElvanney - 'Memory, Emotion and the Lifecycle: Women and the Production, Ownership and Dissemination of their Textiles, 1660 - 1760'
  • Joseph Moore - 'Fighting for Free Enterprise: The Business Right and British Conservatism 1945-1979'
  • Noble Nazzah - ‘The Rise and Fall of "Scientific Equity"'
  • Emma Nelson - 'The Early Medieval Library of Lincoln Cathedral'
  • Catherine Nevell - 'The New Learning: A Study of the Impact of the Reformation on Schools in Tudor England'
  • Josephine Nevill - 'Communism, nationalism and pan-Africanism: Anti-colonial thinking and Africa 1920-1960'
  • Ayotunde Ojo - 'The World Health Organization and Nigeria: A History of Collaboration, 1952- 1969'
  • Takao Osanai - 'Yorkshire and the Port of Hull in the Early Modern Northern European Economy'
  • Lily Pearson - 'Racism, Football and the Media 1885-2016'
  • Eve Pennington - 'Mothers of Modernity: Women's Experiences of New Towns in North West England, 1961-1989'
  • Esther Rollinson - 'Revisiting the English Catholic Household: Faith, Family and Identity, 1660-1750'
  • Swagatalakshmi Saha - 'Time, Trade and Technology: Temporality and Clockmaking in Colonial India (1860-1947)'
  • Catherine Smith - 'Cultures of Underwater Exploration'
  • Sophie Stanford - 'Transitional Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration'
  • Emi Tozawa - 'The Revival of Forgotten Emotions? Historical Memory, Popular Culture, and the Hidden Christians of Japan'
  • Míriam Vercher Díaz - ‘From 'Hero' to 'Traumatised Victim'? Spanish Displaced Children Debates about Refugee Mental Health in the mid-Twentieth Century (1936-1950)’
  • Adam Waddingham - An Intellectual History of Euroscepticism within British Political Thought c.1945-1997'
  • Jingbo Wang - 'Leveraging Power: A Reanalysis of the Open Door Policy'
  • Georgina Watson - 'War, Wealth and God's Will: The Order of Saint Stephen between Crusade and Commerce in the Late Sixteenth Century'
  • Yingjia Zhu - 'Cliometrics of Climate, Dynastic Transition and General Crisis in Hunan'