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Catalogue of Dissertations completed in the School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Stored at 5 Salisbury Road Compiled: 06/05/2015 Contents Centre for Urban History, M.A. & Ph.D.........................................2 History, M.A., MRes & Ph.D....................................................8 European Urbanisation, M.A...................................................17 Social History, M.A..........................................................18 Urban Conservation, M.A./ M.Sc...............................................19 Social Change and Resistance, Department of Geography, M.A...................21 Miscellaneous items stored at 5 Salisbury Road...............................22 Gaps in the tables have been left where information has not been provided on the dissertation. If a submission date has not been included but it has been possible to suggest a date due to the location of the dissertation in 5 Salisbury Road a [?] has been included next to the date. Searching this Document To conduct a Key word search of this document press Ctrl + F or the “Find” button in the Editing group on the Home tab of Microsoft Word. This will open the Navigation Pane. In the edit box at the top of the pane enter the word or phrase you would like to find. Built-in headings have been used in this document. To jump to different sections use the first tab (Browse the headings in your document) in the Navigation Pane. 1

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Page 1: Dissertations Completed (15)

Catalogue of Dissertations completed in the School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester

Stored at 5 Salisbury Road

Compiled: 06/05/2015

Contents

Centre for Urban History, M.A. & Ph.D...........................................................................................................................2

History, M.A., MRes & Ph.D.............................................................................................................................................8

European Urbanisation, M.A.........................................................................................................................................17

Social History, M.A........................................................................................................................................................18

Urban Conservation, M.A./ M.Sc...................................................................................................................................19

Social Change and Resistance, Department of Geography, M.A...................................................................................21

Miscellaneous items stored at 5 Salisbury Road...........................................................................................................22

Gaps in the tables have been left where information has not been provided on the dissertation. If a submission date has not been included but it has been possible to suggest a date due to the location of the dissertation in 5 Salisbury Road a [?] has been included next to the date.

Searching this Document

To conduct a Key word search of this document press Ctrl + F or the “Find” button in the Editing group on the Home tab of Microsoft Word. This will open the Navigation Pane. In the edit box at the top of the pane enter the word or phrase you would like to find.

Built-in headings have been used in this document. To jump to different sections use the first tab (Browse the headings in your document) in the Navigation Pane.

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Centre for Urban History, M.A. & Ph.D

Author Title of thesis Degree DateAbisror, Arié Stoneygate: A Leicester Victorian Suburb 1891 - 1914 M.A. 1994Allman, Matthew J. A Study Relating to the Town Histories Published During

the Nineteenth – Century, with Particular Reference to the East Midland County Towns of Leicester and Nottingham

M.A. 1994

Anagnostopoulos, Aristotelis

Serb Immigrants in Leicester: The EVW ExperienceAn Oral History Project

M.A. 2002

Angharad, Paul How the Country Threatened the Town: The Urban Implications of Cattle Plague 1865

M.A. 2005

Aydin, Yahya The Economic and Social Aspects of the London Docklands Society and the New Transport System of the DLR from 1976 to 1991

M.A. 2013

Bailey, M. L. Market Harborough in the Early Eighteenth Century M.A. 1985Balderstone, Laura Semi Detached Britain? An Analysis of Social Networks

in the Outer Fringe Suburbs of LeicesterM.A. 2005

Bartolome, Maria Gloria Diaz

Cambridge and Salamanca Universities. University Town Development During the Seventeenth Century

M.A. 1999

Baylis, William From Migrants to Settlers: A Study of Birmingham 1962 – 1967

M.A. 2011

Beach, Marie Respectable Suburbs: Suburban Development and the Pursuit of Suburban Typology in South Leicestershire, 1870 – 1910

M.A. 1995

Binder, Che Richard Nottingham: The election of Feargus O’Connor 1847 M.A. 2001Black, Margaret Retail Colonisation of Suburban Development M.A. 2004Bonomo, Bruno Home and Social Identities: Middle-class Rome, c. 1945

– 1973M.A. 2007

Booth, Ralph The Iconography of an industrial City: Salford through the eyes of L.S. Lowry

M.A. 1997

Boyd, Andrew The Growth and Development of Tourism in Georgian and Early Victorian Sussex

M.A. 1994

Brain, Deborah Silk, Soughs and Sunday Schools: Economic Change and its Repercussions within Late Eighteenth Century Derby

M.A. 1995

Bretas Junior, Hevandro Augusto

Infectious Diseases and Preventative Medicine in Victorian Leicester 1851 – 1891

M.A. 1994

Britnell, Tracey Construction of a Community: The Development of the Mount’s Suburb of Northampton 1870 - 1890

M.A. 1999

Burgess, Richard George

The Right to Buy – A Panacea? M.A. 1992

Charles, Pratheeba The Urban Heritage Attractions of the White Cliffs Country, Dover, Deal, and Sandwich: A Representation of the Past in the Present

M.A.

Clements, Helen C.S. Survival Strategies and Mutual Support Systems: Female Friendly Societies and the Lives of Widows and Spinsters

M.A. 2003

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Coates, Ben The Impact of the English Civil War on the Economy of London, 1642 - 1650

Ph.D 1997

Copper, Simon Rediscovering the ‘Urban Variable’: The Politics of the Leicester Poor Law Union and the Abolition of the Guardians, 1918 - 1930

M.A. 1996

Cox, Chris A critical Assessment of the Validity of R.A.W. Rhodes’ ‘power dependence’ theory with reference to Corby and Oundle Councils 1970 - 2000

Ph.D. 2010

Cresswell, Jonathan Infrastrucural Landscapes of Interwar Britain M.A. 2009Crotty, John Patrick Leicester Fosse: Football – It’s history growth and

development within Leicester and Britain 1884 - 1915M.A. 1994

Dalzell, Rebecca London’s Park Concerts, 1850 – 1914: The Growth of Civic Participation in Urban Cultural Life

M.A. 2006

Darragh, Phillip J. The impact of land availability on planning Policy. Portsmouth 1919 - 1975

M.A. 2000

Davies, Ashley Urbanisation, Sanitation and infection: A comparative analysis of Victorian health issues in Gloucester and Leicester, with special reference to smallpox

M.A. 1999

Davies, Gary Benefit or Blight: Visions of Urban England and Calls for its Containment c. 1925 – 1939

M.A. 2008

Davies, Tim Survival Strategies: The Body, the Patient and the Druggist

M.A.

Davies, Tim The Promotion and Pursuit of Health, 1780 - 1880 Ph.D. 2008Deeming, Julie Reconstructing German Cities 1945 – 1949: Policies and

Practice in the British Zone of OccupationM.A.

Dixon, Andrew The management of madness: The Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum, 1870 – 1890

M.A. 2001

Duminy, James William Andrew

Street Renaming, Symbolic Capital and Urban Power Relations in a Post-Apartheid City: The Case of Durban, South Africa, 2007 to 2008

M.A. 2009

Elliott, Samantha Louise

‘Saving the Children’s Lives’: Urban Strategies to Combat Leicester’s High Infant Mortality Rate, 1870 to 1914

M.A. 2002

Eve, C.R.T A Bibliography of the Small Towns in Northamptonshire 1600 – 1850 (expanded M.A.)

M.A. 1993

Ewen, Shane Power and Surveillance in the Modern Urban Body Politic

M.A. 2000

Farndale, Paul Tuberculosis: A Case Study of the Disease in Leicester and Bradford 1919 – 1974

M.A.

Flevas, Costas The Athens 2004 Olympic Games as a historical event: socio-spatial symbiosis and expressed enthusiasm

M.A 2005

Flower, Jonathan An analysis of the decision to transfer the capital of British India, Calcutta, to New Delhi in 1911 and the ramifications which occurred

M.A.

Fogg, Claire The Urban Working Class in British Cinema (1958 – 1963)

M.A. 1995

Forrest, Susan Occupational Structure of Early Nineteenth Century Peterborough, 1822 – 1849

M.A. 2002

Fowler, Jeannette Marie

Politics, Policies and Perceptions: Tuberculosis and the BCG Vaccination

M.A. 2002

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French, Gervase Peter

Governance, Meditation and Execution: Water Management in Sheffield and Leicester, c. 1850 - 1900

M.A. 2004

Fry, Alexander James Allan

Urban Growth and development of football: a local study, 1880 – 1914

M.A. 1996

Gábor, Peter Changes in Town Panning of Leicester’s Central Area: Comparison of four plans elaborated between 1956 and 1996

M.A. 2000

Goodall, Stuart The Growth of a Watering Place: Dover circa 1790 – 1840

M.A. 1995

Grummitt, David I. Some Aspects of the Economic, Political and Social History of Sandwich, Kent 1509 - 1603

M.A. 1993

Gunter, Peter Municipal interventionism – the building of public utilities in Leicester and Sopron in the 19th century

M.A. 1997

Harriman, Sean Christopher

The city and the car: Buchanan, Smigielski and the problem of traffic in the 1960s

M.A.

Harrison, Emma Northampton 1910 – Homogenous Shoe Town or Diverse County Town?

M.A. 2004

Harrison, Richard ‘To Move With the Times We Cannot Have Lines’: The Decline of Leicester’s Tramway Systems, 1930 - 1950

M.A. 2005

Harrison, Richard The consequences of the Westway: the material and social effects of contested construction project on a local community, and it implications for national transport and planning policy 1960 - 1983

M.A.

Hartshorne, Sally Ann

The Role of the Arts and Culture in the Urban Environment since the Thatcher Government of 1979

M.A. 2013

Hayes, Phillip In the aftermath of industrialisation – Stockholm 1910. A Study of brewery workers from Munchen Bryggeriet AB & Nurnberg Bryggeriet AB

M.A. 1999

Hegedus, Viktoria Renewal of the Industrial Architectural Heritage: The Roundhouse in Camden Town 1960 - 1996

M.A. 1996

Henton, Elizabeth A Study of the Irish Population of the City of York during the second half of the Nineteenth Century

M.A. 2000

Henwood, Mark Town Planning in Bournemouth 1946 – 1952: Abercrombie’s Vision Fades

M.A. 1995

Herbert, Joanna The Construction of London’s Chinatown 1900 - 1990 M.A. 2000Hewitt, Lucy Sociological Accounts of the City in the Early Twentieth

Century: Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Patrick GeddesM.A. 2007

Heysmond, Richard J.

Culture and Society: Nottingham in the Eighteenth Century

M.A. 1998

Hicks, Daniel London’s Docklands – a study of regeneration and conflict

M.A.

Higgitt, George Leonard

Leicester The Divided Community 1750 - 1800 M.A. 2001

Hill, Georgina L. Self – interest or genuine concern – the role played by Anglo – Jewry during the mass immigration of Jews to London from Russia and Eastern Europe, 1880 – 1914.

M.A. 1993

Holmes, Jennifer Frances

Policing an English Country Town: The Policing and Policemen of Ipswich, 1851 – 1876

M.A. 1995

Horemans, Boris The Four Crowned Martyrs guild in eighteenth – century M.A. 20124

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Mechelen: an explorative inquiry into the nature of building craft guilds in provincial towns of the Southern Low Countries

Hulme, Thomas J. ‘Safe for Democracy’: Civic Festivals and the Production of the Citizen in 1920s Chicago and Manchester

M.A. 2009

Inès, Hassen The city centre renewal plans of both Leicester and Reims in the 1960s

M.A. 2011

Jones, Phil Local Authority High Rise Building In Britain and the Impact of the 1968 Ronan Point Disaster

M.A. 1999

Jones, Rachel A History of the Planning of Leicester Central Ring Road M.A. 1996Joseph, Samantha The Role of the Natural environment in Post – War

English City Planning. Case Study: LeicesterM.A. 2013

King, Stephanie A Study of the Changes in Inner City Policy Since the 1970’s Using Leicester as a Case Study

M.A. 1996

Kocsis, János B. The social – historical background and the development of a garden suburb in fin-de-siècle Budapest

M.A. 2002

Latham, Mark Urban Constant and Change: a study of eighteenth-century Moorfields

M.A. 2005

Lester, Claire Housing in Plymouth in the Post War Period: The Neighbourhood Unit

M.A. 2004

Littlewood, Simon Steel and the City: steel construction and the birth of the vertical city

M.A. 2000

Lootens, Kristof Continuity and Change of Environmental Problems in Urban Ecosystems of the Sixteenth Century: A Comparative Study: England (Leicester, Nottingham, Northampton, Flanders (Courtrai))

M.A. 1994

Lupton, Nicki Paradise abandoned: an investigation of the significance of the Central Library in the city of the motor car

Madgin, Rebecca May

Castlefield: Transformation of Image and Appearance 1945 – 95

M.A. 2004

Mansfield, Thomas Scottish Dreams of Empire: A Reappraisal of the failure of the Darien scheme, 1696 - 1700

M.A. 2007

Martin, Robert Alfred’s Winchester: A Second Rome M.A. 2011Martins, Victoria A Study of the Extent to which the Classical Style was

used in the Urban Fabric of Norfolk Small Towns, 1720 – 1800

M.A. 1996

Mason, Alan Impact of the Railway on Leicestershire: A Study of occupational Structures & Transport Networks in Four Leicestershire Towns

M.A. 1992

Melbourne, Sally Housing and the issues surrounding the Right to Buy M.A. 1997Miller, Michael James

From Master Plan to Pragmatism. The Development of Beaumont Leys 1960 – 1980

M.A. 1991

Mitchell, Anne The Persistence of Urban Autonomy: School Health Provisions In Leicester, 1870 - 1939

M.A. 2002

Mitchell, Jon Humanitarianism by Numbers: The use of statistics in the movement against capital punishment, 1840 - 1868

M.A.

Mockford, Jack David

Domestic Technology and the Eighteenth-Century Urban Middling Sort: Identity Gender, Objects and Skills

M.A. 2009

Morley, Ian The contribution of Sir Aston Webb to the Development M.A. 19955

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of the Modern British Town Planning Movement, Circa 1900 – 1914

Nagy, Erika Fall and revival of city centre retailing: a case-study from Leicester

M.A. 1997

Neale, Matthew Crime in the Household Domestic Servants in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey

M.A. 2008

Noble, Malcolm The Languages of Common Good: Municipal Reform, Urban Governance, and Charity Administration, Leicester c. 1820 – c. 1850

M.A. 2008

Olusoga, David Adetayo

Slums and the Housing Problem in Nineteenth Century Gateshead. A Study of the factors responsible for the formation and perpetuation of slums in Gateshead 1843 – 1900

M.A. 1995

Palai, Patrik New Town Programmes. The Reasons for the Circumstances of the Development of Stevenage New Town, Great Britain and Dunaújváros, Hungary A comparative Analysis

M.A. 2000

Panagopoulos, Yorgos

Urban Strategies and Architecture in British Corfu (1814 – 1864)

M.A. 1995

Peavitt, Helen In the Mid Nineteenth Century – An Analysis Using the 1851 Census Returns

M.A. 1993

Penn, Catherine E. The Early Years of Welwyn Garden City M.A. 1992Penney, Steve The Parish of Oldswinford, Continuity and Contrast, a

Religious LandscapeM.A. 1994

Plotar, Fatime The Wekerle Estate: A Garden City in Budapest M.A. 2000Polyák, Andrea Problems and solutions of working class housing in the

nineteenth century in Edinburgh and BudapestM.A.

Proctor, Alice Objects of Charity and Pity? Disabled People in Warwickshire, as seen through the Quarter Sessions, c. 1625 – 1622

M.A. 2007

Renard, Cédric The success of Les Minimes: Ideal and reality (1971 – 1999)

M.A. 2005

Rogalski, Stephanie Alexandra

The Presence of the Past in the Development of Post-War Coventry

M.A. 2010

Root, Denis A. Control through urban networks: a comparative study of Roman control in Campania and Cisalpine Gaul in the middle and late Republic (338 – 155 BC)

M.A. 1992

Savage, Timothy Christopher

‘What have we got to pageant about in Leicester?’: Historical Pageants in twentieth-century Britain

M.A. 2008

Seliga, Joseph Neighbourhood...Religion…Community: The role of religious institutions in the Belgrave area of Leicester, 1965 - 1995

M.A. 1996

Shirata, Yuji ‘The Orgy of Spirit – Drinking’ and London Society 1720 – 1751

M.A.

Sierra, David De Obregon Y

Musical Life in London and Madrid from the Restoration Until Handel’s Death (1660 – 1757)

M.A. 1999

Small, Mark Perceptions of Masculinity in the Urban Realm from 1819 to 1851

M.A. 2010

Smith, Ian R. Patchwork Expediency or Emergent Planning? An M.A. 19936

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Examination of the Major Themes of Central Redevelopment in Inter – War Coventry

Smith, Janet Lillian ‘Public Responsibilities’ The Entry of Women into Public Life in Leicester 1870 – 1920

M.A. 1995

Stevens, Faith Open Spaces for the People. The aims and achievements of Octavia Hill in Nineteenth – Century London

M.A. 1993

Suttill, Bethany The Queen of English watering places: representations of Scarborough in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century travel guides

M.A. 2011

Suttle, Olivia Defining Criminality: A Study of late – Victorian Leicester M.A. 2001Teixeira, Manuel C. The Development of Nineteenth Century Working –

Class Housing – The «Ilhas» in Oporto, PortugalPh.D 1988

Tóth Árpád Urbanisation in Pécs in the Early Mid – Nineteenth Century: An Urban Renaissance?

M.A. 1996

Townsend, Claire Migration and the growth of Leicester 1700 - 1840 M.A. 2002Van Houtven, Stephanie

Contested terrains and negotiated relations: Spatial change and social structure in a late nineteenth century Leicester neighbourhood. The Wyggeston Ward, 1871 – 1901

M.A. 2006

Virk, Ranjit The Changing Use of Street Names in Coventry and Leicester 1610 – 1890

M.A. 1998

Vörös, Andrea The Transformation of the Economic Structures and the Persistence of Firms in Leicester 1850 – 1900

M.A. 1998

Waldon, Katherine Amy

An Analysis of Visual Representations of English Spa and Seaside Resort Towns 1760 to 1840

M.A. 2013

Warmerdam, Gemma

Lelystad and the Forgotten Master Plan of Cornelis van Eesteren

M.A.

Warrington, Rebecca The Changing Perceptions of the Town of Northampton and the City of Winchester between 1780 and 1850

M.A. 2013

Watkins, James An Investigation into Town Planning solutions to the “housing crisis” in Birmingham at the beginning of the twentieth century, as articulated by John Nettlefold and demonstrated In the Harborne Tenants Limited scheme.

M.A. 1992

Webb, Elizabeth ‘May the Lord Make Us Truly Thankful’ A Comparative Study of the Feeding of Necessitous School Children within the borough of Leicester and Leicestershire 1870 – 1914

M.A. 1997

White, Peter Federation of Stoke-on-Trent M.A. 2009Williams, Christopher Andrew

1842: The Dynamic of Urban Disorder. Using a Model of Disorder to Examine Leicester in 1842

M.A. 1992

Willis, T.J. Aspects of Working Class Formation: Sheffield, Class, and Space 1840 – 1940

M.A. 1994

Wood, Neil Landlords and Occupiers: Class and Ownership in North Leicester 1878 – 1914

M.A. 1993

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History, M.A., MRes & Ph.D

Author Title of thesis Degree DateAbdulrahman, Karwan

The End of History in Hegel’s thought M.A. 2012

Ainscow, Jonathan A Prosopographic Study of the London Revolution Society

M.A. 2013

Austen, Graham William Seward, 1702 – 1740: Publicist, Philanthropist, Martyr

M.A. 2011

Aydeyer, Caner Turkish-American Relationship Between 1945 - 1960 M.A. 2013Bailey, Ty Realist Neutrality: British Diplomacy and the American

Civil WarM.A.

Bailie, Elizabeth Caroline

To what extent did the British take an active involvement in the recovery and rehabilitation of refugees during the crises that occurred leading up to the creation of Bangladesh on 26 March 1971?

M.A. 2009

Baker, Gary Sir Andrew de Harcla, Triumph and Disaster: Nobility, Politics, and Warfare in the Reign of Edward II

M.A.

Baker, Lucy Did Massive Resistance act as a catalyst to change the role of southern white women in America from passive symbols of white supremacy to activists, between 1950 - 1970

M.A. 2007[?]

Barber, Adam The Kennedy Administration’s Cuban Policy; the Bay of Pigs 1961 & The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

M.A. 2010[?]

Barlow, Georgina Leicester, Migration and Multiculturalism M.A. 2013Barry, Charlotte An Investigation into the Nazi Euthanasia Programme;

with a Focus on the Structure of the Hadamar InstitutionM.A. 2013

Bateman, Nicholas A Comparative Study of Germans’ Attitudes towards Jews in Berlin and Munich, 1933 - 1945

M.A. 2007

Bates, Richard Spa and the ‘Petit Tour’: British visitors to Spa, 1763 - 1787

MRes 2014

Baxter, Elizabeth Poetry and the construction of ethnic identity in early Medieval Britain

M.A. 2010[?]

Beardsley, Thomas R.

Cotton, Class and Commerce. Elite Durability in Nineteenth Century Connecticut

Ph.D 2004

Benjamin, David Support Structures on the First Crusade M.A. 2008Bentley, Douglas A historical investigation into the extent to which

Benjamin Disraeli was accountable for the Conservatives defeat at the General Election of 1880

M.A. 2007

Berry, Emma What were the Motivations for Domestic Anticommunism in America, 1946 - 1956

M.A. 2003

Bickerton, Lee Control and Command on the Third and Fourth Crusades

M.A. 2004[?]

Bishop, Claire Middle-Class Identity and the Divisions of Gender; A Study of the Suburb of Knighton 1870 - 1890

M.A. 2011[?]

Blackburn, Debra The City of Leicester During the Great Depression M.A. 2004Boxell, Owen Roman Polanski’s The Pianist: Does it Do Justice To The

Experience Of Warsaw Jews 1939 – 1945?M.A. 2007[?]

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Boyle, James Alexander

The Conduct of the British Army Overseas: Comparing the Second Boer War with Colonial India

M.A. 2012

Brearley, Stephen Charles

The International Wool Market 1850 - 1913 Ph.D. 2004

Bridger, Katie The impact of gentry family identity and power on the landscape of West Goscote and Sparkenhoe hundreds, Leicestershire, 1461 - 1500

M.A. 2013

Brightmore, Lisa Did the Truman administration period define the nascence of the civil rights movement?

M.A. 2003

Bryne, Alexander The Impact of Joseph Chamberlain’s Leicester Speech, 30 November 1899

M.A. 2011

Burton, Leon How did the British Parties of the Left react to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and did this reflect the influence the response and attitudes of their West European counterparts?

M.A. 2003

Button, Emma ‘Wonderful Little Valkeries in knickerbockers’ The Enduring Myth of the Women of Pervyse

M.A. 2003

Buxton, Benjamin William

Anglo-Saxon Sculpture, the Aristocracy and the Kings of Wessex

M.A. 2009

Cajkler, Stephen The Passport Control Network in Europe, 1919 - 1939 M.A. 2009Calles, Thomas ‘Equality of Opportunity’ (or the ‘Myth’ of Meritocracy)

and the Consumer Democracy of the New Right Individualism: a Study in Conservative Education from the ‘Great Debate’ to the Early Eighties

M.A. 2009

Camarillo, Evelyn Noblewomen and Their Seals: The Heart of the Text M.A. 2012Cant, Katherine The New Women: Creation of Identity Through Suffrage

LiteratureM.A. 2011[?]

Carroll, Brendan Daniel

Compatibility or Competition? Humanist and Franciscan Discourse on Crusading Against the Turks in the Later 15th Century

M.A. 2011

Chapman, Simon A Study into Aspects of the Development of women Smokers in Britain Between 1939 and 1954

M.A. 2009

Chudasama, Sheetal How did the Ku Klux Klan Use Propaganda to Popularise and Justify Their Cause 1915 – 1930?

M.A. 2005

Clarke, Tessa The British Government, the Problem of Ulster and the Question of Partition 1912 - 1925

M.A. 2004

Clifton, Carolyn Twenty-five years of ‘frightful contamination’: Leicester Borough Prison, 1835 – 1860

M.A. 2007

Cohen, Josh Left – wing universalism and the problem of ethnic identity: British Jews and the Communist Party, 1930 – 1991

MRes 2014

Constantinidou, Christina

Approaches to Auschwitz through the eyes of Primo Levi M.A. 2007

Cooney, Alex The role played by Minnesota Senators; Humphrey, McCarthy and Mondale in shaping liberalism in Post – World War Two US politics

M.A. 2013

Coskun, Yasin The 1971 Turkish Military Intervention and Its Representation in English Sources

M.A.

Coutts, Matthew British Policy During the Czech Crisis March – September M.A.9

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1938Crockett, James Aberration or Apotheosis. Barbarossa’s host on the

Third Crusade and the expression of Imperial Authority in the late twelfth century

M.A. 2012

Curry, Emily An Outlook on Genocide: The Perspective Behind the Lens of Holocaust Photographers

M.A. 2004

Davies, Brad Does the United States of America have a “Conscience of Guilt” in the way its society, both individually and Collectively, Remember those that Purported Black Power in Sport?

MRes 2014

Demetriou, Soteroula

Evil Women in West Europe and Byzantium of The Middle Ages

M.A. 2007

Diffey, Philip Archbishop Wulfstan and the Violence of Kings. Ecclesiastical Perception and Support of Royal Warfare and Violence in 11th Century Anglo-Saxon England

M.A. 2004

Dobbing, Cara Ramsay MacDonald: From Failure to Success in Leicester, 1900 - 1906

M.A. 2013

Down, Tom ‘Such, Such were the Joys’ – Political Propaganda or Autobiographical Sketch. Testing the claims, evaluating the origins, and challenging the accuracy of ‘Such, Such were the Joys’ to determine the veracity and purpose of this most controversial piece of Orwellian Literature

M.A.

Elliott, Kieran Lewis In from the Cold: An Examination of Political Presbyterianism from Pride’s Purge to the Mid Protectorate

M.A. 2009

Elson, Peter Changing perceptions of Jewish persecution during the Holocaust in British newspapers, 1945 – 1962

M.A.

Fackrell, Victoria An Investigation into the ‘Popular’ Support of the Boer War; with a Focus on the Imperial Yeomanry of Nottinghamshire

M.A. 2011

Fairman, Thomas The Effects of the Civil War on the Framland Hundred, 1637 - 1646

M.A.

Fallahi, Amber ‘The US views Iran through spectacles manufactured in Israel’. Discuss the impact Israel has on American foreign policy towards Iran during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George. W. Bush.

MRes 2014

Fattah, M. Mahmood

Tensions in the Special Relationships: Anglo – American Relations and the British Empire, 1941 - 1950

M.A. 2014

Freeman, Gavin The Problems of the Liberal Party in Leicestershire, 1914 - 1924

M.A.

Gad, Alison The Evidence of Literacy from First-Person Inscriptions and their Function in Anglo-Saxon England.

M.A.

Galloway, Stuart British Policy and the Rhineland Crisis, March 1936 M.A. 2009Garratt, Daniel Prince Edward and the Conduct of War in the

Fourteenth CenturyM.A. 2013[?]

Gezer, Yalcin Western Responses to the Ottoman Sultanate in the Fifteenth Century

M.A. 2013

Gillham, Anthony ‘A great deal of excitement, a great sense of insecurity, and a great feeling of indignation’ White racial violence

M.A. 2010

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in the American South during the 19th centuryGist, Elizabeth Bohemond I – Prince of Antioch M.A. 2012Glass, Andrea Louis IX – the Last True Crusader and the Final

Expeditions to the Levant: an Analysis of Christian Mongols and Mamluks in the Thirteenth Century

M.A. 2013

Gowdy, Samantha The Role of Anti-Communist Sentient During the Civil Rights Struggle in Mid-Twentieth Century America.

M.A. 2013[?]

Grudgings, Andrew P.

‘Bodyline’: What happened and why? Why was it significant and what was its legacy for cricket and Anglo – Australian relations?

M.A. 2012

Haines, Louise The West Riding Women’s Suffrage Movement M.A. 2003Harrison, Katherine An examination of the normative values of eighteenth

century polite society, as expressed through conduct literature

M.A. 2011[?]

Hathway, Laura The Women of the French Section of the Special Operations Executive: Recruitment Training and Responsibility (1940 – 1945)

M.A 2010

Hellouin, Manouchka

Tahiti, France and England: The Biased Diplomatic Relations which Shaped the Island’s Future, 1767 - 1847

M.A. 2004

Henwood, Helen Lard Haw Haw – Myth and Reality British Attitudes to William Joyce

M.A. 2004

Hothi, Sumanjit To what extent are Neo-Nazi and Far-Right movements in Britain and Wider Europe similar to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party

M.A. 2012

Howes, Kate Harlot or Heroine? Women of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps – Why women chose to serve overseas despite Military and Civilian objections

M.A. 2013[?]

Hoyle, Kevin Racial “Science” as articulated segregationist ideology understanding rather than describing the massive resistance of the white south

M.A. 2006

Hunt, Ian Mass Murders on Trial: How the Nazis justified their atrocities at Nuremburg

M.A. 2008

Hunter, Catherine The British Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Press, 1866 – 1814

M.A. 2004

Hurst, Mark Soviet Dissidents and the West: The British Trade Union Movement’s Support for Soviet Refuseniks 1956 - 1985

M.A. 2009

Hurt, David The Chantries and chantry chapels of eastern England, 1350 – 1485

M.A. 2004

Ibrahim, Mohammed Majid

Anglo – Iraqi Relations: Preludes to the May Movement of 1941 (May 1936 to May 1941)

M.A. 2013

Ioannou, Constantina

The Byzantine Empire (1081 – 1204): The army as an instrument of policy

M.A 2011

James, Alison ‘Wel wot men that women hath no mighte’; Gender and Violence in Eastern England 1290 - 1340

M.A. 2007[?]

Johnson, Catherine A Local Study of the Birmingham branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union 1907- 14

M.A.

Johnson, Emma Queens and Charitable Patronage in Fourteenth Century England

M.A. 2004

Jones, Christopher “The war against the elements, against vermin, against M.A. 201211

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boredom.” The First World War and the Reality of Trench Warfare.

Jones, Kenneth The Occupation of the Channel Islands: Resistance or Shame?

M.A.

Jones, Owen Belief in the Hereafter in Post-Restoration England (1660 – 1710) with special attention on thoughts and opinions concerning the belief in Hell and eternal damnation

M.A. 2011

Jordan, Alexandra A Comparative Exploration of the Redactions of Bili’s Life of St Malo preserved in England, focusing on Hereford Cathedral Library P.7. vi

MRes 2012

Jordan, David Revolutionary Socialism in Britain 1920 - 1926 M.A. 2011Kagia, Evgenia U.S. Policy Towards Cyprus (1967 – 1974) M.A. 2007Kendell, Daniel Early Monastic Crusade Chronicling. Theological

Perspectives and Accounting for the CrusadesM.A. 2004

Kenealy, Lauren An Investigation into the Life, Times and Works of Katherine Chidley

M.A. 2007

Kilic, Ilhan The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits

M.A.

Kouma, Andria The Relations Between Byzantines and the Western World in the Late Eighth and Ninth Centuries

M.A. 2005

Krumins, Matiss J. Postmodernism: Spectres of History M.A.La Barca, Giuseppe Agriculture in the United States and the European

Community; Domestic Developments and the Gatt, with particular Reference to the Crisis of the 1980s and to the Uruguay Round Negotiations

Ph.D

Lacey, Terry Chamberlain’s Appeasement of Italy – A Doomed Enterprise?

M.A. 2009

Ladlow, Jake The lives and experiences of the ‘mentally unsound’ in eighteenth and nineteenth century England.

MRes 2014

Lawson, Sean ‘The Mouthpiece of Southern Defiance’: The White Citizens’ Councils and Massive Resistance in Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida

M.A. 2007

Lees, Jennifer Life After Death English Dowager Queens in the Later Middle Ages (1307 – 1482)

M.A. 2007

Leskanich, Alex Apotheosis or Epiphenomenon? An Inquiry Concerning the Reduction of Truth to Historical Thinking

M.A. 2011

Lester, Christine The Black Death of 1348 and its effect upon the Medieval Hospitals of London and South East England

M.A. 2006

Lloyd, Charles The American Streetcar as a site of racial interaction, conflict and protest in the civil rights era, 1955 - 1961

M.A. 2013

Loizou, Despina The Portrayal of Imperial Women in Byzantium in the Mid-Eight to the Eleventh Century

M.A. 2007

Maddox, Benjamin A Comparative Study on the relationship between land ownership and defence by the military orders with reference to Latin Greece, Cyprus, Cilician Armenia and the Holy Land, between c. 1187 and c. 1291

M.A. 2011

Mahmada, Sipan The Problem of Toleration in the Thought of Richard Baxter (1650 – 1660)

M.A. 2014

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Mahoney, Cathy The Role of the Media and Political Cartoons, Particularly Those of David Low, in Shaping Popular Perceptions of the Build Up To the Second World War

M.A.

Majors, Diz From Lenin to Stalin…Theories and Perspectives M.A. 2004Makepeace, Margaret

Business and Benevolence: The East India Company’s Management of its London Warehouse Labourers, 1800 – 1858

Ph.D 2007

Marston, Oliver Preaching of the Crusades to the East, 1187 - 1291 M.A. 2011Martin, Peter “It Shall Not Pass!” Conservative Opposition to British

Entry into Europe, June 1970 – July 1972M.A. 2006

Mcallister, Rianne The Violent Struggle: A Critical study with a view towards understanding Orwellian Socialism

M.A.

McGivern Why did the case of the ‘Scottsboro Boys’ provoke such a variance in domestic reactions between 1931 and 1935?

M.A. 2005

McKay, Thomas Dealing With the Past: Memories of National Socialism, World War II and the Holocaust in Great Britain

M.A. 2007

Meier, Melanie Hutesium et Clamor: Against Women by Men in Late Medieval London and Yorkshire, 1300 - 1381

M.A. 2003

Mitchell, Jenny Is current teaching of the Holocaust able to deal adequately with the moral issues that the Holocaust raises?

M.A. 2006[?]

Mohammed, Rahma ‘Religious Conflict and Military Struggle in Palestine and Syria 1099 – 1150.’

M.A. 2009

Moran, James C. The Earl of Bute and The North Briton: The role of the popular press in the fall of Bute’s Ministry 1762 - 1763

M.A. 2012

Morris, Richard Queen Victoria and the Afrikaners: The Diamond Jubilee at Pretoria

M.A. 2012

Morse, Daggett The Merovingians and England: Frankish Influence on Anglo-Saxon Kinship and Church in the 6th and 7th Centuries

M.A. 2011[?]

Morton, Andrew J. Trench art of the Great War: Gendered inscriptions within gifts, souvenirs and items of personal use.

M.A. 2010

Moss, Kellie Account For The Ways Convict Transportation To Australia Was Utilised By The British Government And the Effect it Had On Its Expanding Empire

M.A. 2013

Murphy, Anne L. Society, Knowledge and the Behaviour of English investors, 1699 – 1702

Ph.D. 2005

Negrine, Angela Medicine and Poverty: A Study of the Poor Law Medical Services of the Leicester Union, 1867 - 1914

Ph.D. 2008

Nevell, Richard Antony John

King of the Castle: A study of castle slighting in the 12th and 13th centuries

M.A. 2011

O’ Rourke, Andrew Unravelling a Community: Analysing the boundaries of ‘Community Engagement’ between Quarry Bank Mill and the people of Styal Village 1939 – 2013

M.A. 2014

O’Brien, Susan Attitudes of the Church of England towards the Holocaust during the years 1941 - 1942

M.A. 2005

Palmer, Nicholas I. ‘We who were once Occidentals have become Orientals’: Crusading and the Rise of National Identity

M.A. 2007

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Parker-List, Katherine

‘Erotic Modesty’: Victorian British Discourse verses the ‘Other Face of Corsetry’

M.A. 2011

Parkinson, Hal Famine During the Crusades 1095 – 1254: An Issue of God, Class and Blame.

M.A. 2011[?]

Payne, Joanne A Comparison of reading habits from 1721 to 1810 in England through a contextualisation of upper class women’s diaries

M.A. 2005[?]

Perkins, Amy Romanticism Past and Present: Between Alienation and Re-enchantment

M.A. 2003

Pibworth, John The Holocaust, a cross-curricular, multi-national subject. M.A. 2005Powis, Chris British Political and military policy in Ireland 1919 –

1921: the experience of the 6th Division in south West Ireland

M.A. 2005

Pullen, Kimberley Jayne

The Poor Law Union of Lutterworth, 1834 – c.94 MRes 2013

Purcell, Emma Gossip, Socialite, Business Woman or Record Keeper? A Re-Evaluatoin of the diary of Abigail Gawthern of Nottingham, 1751 - 1810

M.A. 2013

Quimby, Sarah Holocaust Denial: History or Ideological Propaganda? M.A. 2005[?]Rasul, Rawaz Mahmud

The Portrayal of Kurdistan and the Kurdish People in the British Print Media between 1880 and 1920

M.A. 2012

Rochester, Tom On Earth as it is in Heaven?: Bede’s Christian Vision of Secular Kinship

M.A. 2013

Rowberry, Lizzie Flightless Birds and American Mouths: The Fall of PATCO M.A. 2013Rushton, Rebecca Rose

A Study into the applicability of the ‘era of alignment’ theory in Leicestershire during the period 1945 - 1970

MRes 2012

Saeed, Sulaiman Snaan

Britain’s role in the establishment of the Iraqi monarchy and the nomination of King Faisal I in 1921

M.A. 2013

Sargeant, Gemma Michelle

How far did the German and Non-German doctors of Auschwitz remain true to their Hippocratic oath?

M.A. 2004

Satterford, Gregory C.

The Development of the German monarchy in the High Middle Ages between the years 1000 and 1200 AD

M.A. 2011[?]

Seel, Alastair Was the Bolshevik Terror under Lenin a reaction to circumstances or an integral part of Bolshevism?

M.A. 2005

Smith, Gavin G. The Fierce Virgin: Representations of the Virgin Mary During the Northern Crusades

M.A. 2004

Smith, Robin Alexander

‘A Matter of Machinery’: The Influence of Technology on the Reconquest of the Sudan, 1896 – 1898.

M.A. 2008

Snowden, Thomas Dylan

‘What can the Mold Riots and other Social Disturbances which Occurred in Nineteenth Century Flintshire tell us about the Local Mining Community?

M.A. 2013

Sohatski, Rebecca The Image of the Victorian Murderess in the English Popular Press: an investigation into the portrayal of women who killed

M.A. 2011[?]

Sparey, Rebecca The British Re-education Programme for German Civilians and Prisoners of War, 1945 – 1949

M.A. 2009

Sparrey, Marc A Historical Consideration of Contemporary Advertising Methodologies

M.A. 2009

Spicer, Natalie An Investigation into Intellectuals in the Nazi Regime, M.A. 2011[?]14

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with a particular focus on the Einsatzgruppen.Standley, Charlie “We do our best to urge the importance of war crimes

trials, but a Brigade Commander has his own sense of proportion and makes up his own mind about the relative importance of many of the tasks he is ordered to carry out with insufficient manpower and insufficient time. The patience of a cabinet minister will not influence him greatly o make him change his mind.” (Brigadier P.G. Turpin, Chief of Staff BAOR, 15 March 1946) To what extent can tension between Government and the military explain the limitations of the British minor war crimes trial; programme in occupied Germany, c. 1945 – 45?

M.A. 2009

Strong, Stuart How the Foreign Office monitored, commented on, and shared concerns relating to the International Consequences of the Civil Rights crisis

M.A. 2004

Thomason, Kelly Breedon and the Peterborough Connection M.A. 2006Thompson, Charlotte

Fatal Accident: Women, Drugs and Social Anxiety 1900 – 1925

M.A.

Thornley, Jonathan Mark

‘Constructing identities in practice and imagination: the state, the police and the black community in Brixton during the 1970s and 1980s

M.A. 2013[?]

Toufexis, Irini To what extent did Nazi racial ideology penetrate the German medical profession, and how did the profession help to construct this ideology? Nazi Symbolism: Human Genetics and Politics

M.A. 2011

Tuttlebury, James Mary Wollstonecraft: Debates on human individuality and society in the late eighteenth-century.

M.A.

Varlow, James Popular Jewish Resistance to the British Union of Fascists and the Role of Police in Manchester and the East End, 1933 – 6

M.A. 2013

Vora, Rashida 11th, 12th & 13th Century Medieval Spain. The Reception of Crusading and Convivencia

M.A. 2011

Wannell, Duncan Keigwin’s Rebellion 1683 – 4: Urban dissent in seventeenth century Bombay

M.A. 2014

Waring, Thomas Anthony

Planning the Post-War Word: How Lack of American Policy over the Future of Germany in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Later Years Contributed to the Start of the Cold War.

M.A. 2013

Watkins, Nicolle Reconstruction, Remembrance and Recollections: the Occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940 – 1945, in collective memory

MRes 2013

Watson, Charles The Role of Foot-Soldiers on the Third, Fourth and Fifth Crusades

M.A.

Watson, John Historical Analogies and the Decision for War in Vietnam M.A. 2012Weir, Marie Peasant Religiosity in British Travelogues of Russia (1861

– 1905)M.A. 2009

Western, Laura Patience

Women’s Responses and Contributions to Conduct Literature c. 1580 – c.1630

M.A.

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Wharton, Eleanor Jayne

Absurd Stories and Parrot Cries: How Wartime Britons Reacted to The Holocaust

M.A. 2009

Whitlock, Abigail The diffusion of beauty: The philanthropic activity of the Leicester Kyrle Society in the late Victorian Period

M.A. 2013

Williamson, Karen A Consideration of Catholic Missions to Scotland, and their impact 1580 – 1603

M.A. 2013

Ying, Eng Wei Noblewomen and Piety in Fourteenth Century England M.A. 2011Zignani, Andrew British Reactions to the Russian Revolution, 1917 - 1920 M.A. 2010

British Commercial Policy in Persia in the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century

MRes 2012

Historical Fact vs. Victorian Fiction. Printed Representations of Opium in Victorian Britain

M.A. 2011[?]

The Tresham family and their impact on the landscape of Northamptonshire 1450 to 1650

M.A. 2011[?]

‘The Foul Baboonery of Bolshevism’: an examination of Churchill’s role in the Russian Civil War, 1918 -1920

M.A. 2010

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European Urbanisation, M.A.

Author Title of thesis Degree DateBrodrick, Helen Symbolism and Ceremony: One Hundred Years of Public

Spectacle in Middlesbrough, c. 1830 - 1939M.A. 2005

Hayes, Frank Segregation Ethnicity and Class: The Irish Community in Leicester 1851 to 1881

M.A. 2001

Holubowicz, Teresa “Take heed near whom ye pray”: An Insight into Pew Renters at the Foundling Chapel, 1796

M.A. 2010

Verlaan, Tim Neues Kreuzberger Zentrum: from Glitzerding to Profitwurm. The urban renewal process in Berlin-Kreuzberg and the growing tensions between local politicians, private developers and citizens 1963 – 1974

M.A. 2011

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Social History, M.A.

Author Title of thesis Degree DateColling, Anne Prevention and cure: public health and the role of the

Medical Officers of Health in nineteenth century Leicester, with, particular reference to the period, 1875 - 1895

M.A. 2005

Cooper, Maureen Anne

The clergyman, the widow, and the dairy man: an examination into the slum landlords of Edwardian Nottingham

M.A. 2006

Hands, Caroline Examining Oral History evidence and the Second World War. Challenging memories of a blitz sprit and the Catford bomb

M.A. 2005

Hobden, Paul The Transformation of Northampton (1675 – 1925) M.A. 2005Jo-Ann Curtis Unfit for Habitation: the Birmingham Improvement

Scheme Photographs by James BurgoyneM.A.

Johns, Tony The Urban Military of Leicester 1860 - 1900 M.A. 2007Lucille, Sandra Déjà vu? The role of history in contemporary policy M.A. 2008Maksimovic, Stephanie

Dwellers Beneath the Clods. A comparative study of the inauguration of the public cemeteries in Hanley and Oakham, 1860, and aspects of the social status of the ‘inhabitants’

M.A. 2003

North, Sharon A nobler memorial than ‘storied urn of animated bust’. Branch library development in Leicester 1870 – 1905 – the impact of community, ideology and identity on provision

M.A. 2006

Parker, Julie What was ‘The Disabled Warriors Fund’ and how did it serve Leicester’s Disabled servicemen of World War One?

M.A. 2008

Prescott, Thomas Fortress City: The Impact of Border Closure on the City of Gibraltar 1969 - 1985

M.A.

Rutherford, Brian The use of advertising by the Leicester Borough Corporation 1882 - 1892

M.A.

Scattergood, Diana The Effect of Reform on Leicester’s two Medieval Hospitals during the period late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

M.A. 2007

Smith, Tara Power of the Gift: Philanthropy and the ‘Urban Elites’ in Leicester 1850 - 1914

M.A. 2007

Wood, Valerie Women and Work in Nottingham 1945 – 1955 M.A. 2007

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Urban Conservation, M.A./ M.Sc.

Author Title of thesis Degree DateAdams, Carys Plan for the Future to Remember The Past: A Discourse

in the Mechanics and Philosophy of Remembrance in the National Memorial Arboretum

M.A. 2012

Chen, Joan The Protection of Culture and History on the Gongchen Qiaoxi Historical Block

M.A. 2014

Conroy, Stephen Why Bus Stations Matter: Uncovering aspects of the conservation value and significance of bus stations

M.A. 2012

Copp, Thomas The fall of the Phoenix? The use of conservation in the regeneration of a post-war retail centre: Princesshay, Exeter, 1993 – 2007

M.A.

Elliot, David Stuart Mark

How effective are policies of reuse and how important is development control in reused historic industrial buildings?

M.A. 2012

Flower, Jonathan An analysis of the decision to transfer the capital of British India, Calcutta, to New Delhi in 1911 and the ramifications which occurred

M.A. 2012

Fox, Michael From IKON to Island. Conservation Approaches in Birmingham’s Commercial Urban Development.

M.A. 2012

Hemingway, Kathryn An Interdisciplinary Study of the 2014 Conservation of the University of Leicester Engineering Faculty Building: A consideration of the historical and material science perspectives

MSc 2014

Kephart, Denisha M. Historic Perspectives on Built Heritage Conservation: The United Kingdom versus the United States

M.A. 2012

Khlaifat, Firas J. Are heritage and national identity correlated in Jordan? M.A. 2014Kokkinou, Nektaria The Walled City of Nicosia and its Buffer zone: The

impacts of the Buffer zone on the architectural heritage and the conservation programmes of the city

M.A. 2012

Kouvela, Viktoria Restoration and Management of Archaeological Sites: Past Interventions and Long – Term impacts on the Archaeological Sites of Knossos and Phaistos in Crete

M.A. 2012

McLeish, Steven Uniqueness in Mass: An Analysis of the Management of Victorian and Edwardian Terraced Housing as Heritage under the Housing Market Renewal Initiative in North Staffordshire

M.A. 2012

Moralee, Kerry The Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Industry in Leicestershire 1880 – 2013: Urban, Economic and Social Impact

M.A. 2013

Morris-Stych, Steven The Mutable Value of Heritage: An Analysis of a City’s Changing Regard for its Heritage. Leicester: 1945 - 2013

M.A. 2013

Peaden, Hannah ‘We shape our buildings, and then they shape us.’ Heritage-led Regeneration and the Community: The Greyfriars Example

M.A 2014

Styles, Rebecca A Study of the Reuse and Adaption of Ecclesiastical Buildings in Nottingham

M.A. 2014

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Tibke, Michael Corridor of Uncertainty: the ambiguous place of the ‘dock road’ in Liverpool planning 1930 - 1960

M.A. 2014

Wragg, Claire Louise Julie

A Study into the Conservation of Council Housing in Britain, through the Comparative Case Study of the Conservation process of Wollaton park Estate Nottingham and Robin Hood Gardens, London

M.A. 2012

An Anthropocene Case in China: the Effect of the Three Gorges Dam on the Ancient Town of Dachang

M.A/ MSc

2014

The Covent Garden Market, London: A Case Study of the Urban Conservation in Britain

M.A. 2014

Gentrification and Conservation in Barnsbury, London, 1957 – 1973. Uniting the Consumption and Production Theories of Gentrification through conservation and Spatiality.

M.A. 2013

The West Lake Hangzhou, China: Intrinsic value and its Conservation (1949 – 2010)

M.A. 2013

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Social Change and Resistance, Department of Geography, M.A.

Author Title of thesis Degree DateWright, Benjamin Z. The Quadripartite Model and the Production of Social

Change: Explaining the Baton Rouge, Montgomery, and Tallahassee Bus Boycotts, 1953 – 1958

M.A.

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Miscellaneous items stored at 5 Salisbury Road

Inc. ESF/ Transitional Course Urban History, EuroCit Small Towns Project at the University of Leicester etc. from 1988 to 1996. Many of these documents are very brief or in the form of short reports / drafts. If travelling from a distance to view documents it is recommended that these documents are checked in advance as they may be short enough to copy or in an incomplete form.

Author Title of thesis Degree DateAce, Mark A Study of the Rise of Torquay as a Watering Place from

the Late Eighteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century

ESF

Ashley, Sarah Civic Universities and Industry: Manchester and Liverpool

1995

Balkestein, MarianLash, Willem,Mason, AlanMatthezing, AlanWheeler, Sarah

Dalton in Furness 1560 – 1699: Parish Register Report ESF

Barnes, Peter Rugby? A School Town? A Study of the Development of the Small Town of Rugby, and the influence of the School, the Market, and the Railways.

1996

Barton, Paul Leisure in Late Eighteenth Century Northamptonshire. ESF/ TN 1994Barton, Paul Social and Cultural Indicators in the ‘Bath Journal’ and

‘Derby Mercury’ as reported in 1763.ESF/ TN 1994

Barton, PaulDavidson, GarySchulze, FloraWinkelman, Wendy

Analysis of Population Change in Upper Bayern

Barton, PaulGoldsmith, AnitaLee, JonathanMcEntagert, Olive

Northamptonshire: An Occupational Study 1777 - 1850

Bowden, Philip Market Harborough: A Socio – Economic Study From the 1851 Census

Branton, VeronicaKeaveny, BrianRolls, LeeWhite, Fiona

Occupational Trends and Urban Development in Ten Small Staffordshire Towns Between 1790 and 1850

Branton, Victoria Stafford and Lichfield: Occupational Trends, Cultural Development, And Administrative Roles

Bras, HildeCusters, GuduleHodgkinson, JamesLess, Jonathan

Eurocit Project: Investigation into the Urban Demography of the Rheinland-Pfalz and the Saarland, 1800 – 1960

Eurocit project

1994

Brown, Sally A Bibliography of the Small Towns in Leicestershire and Rutland 1600 – 1850

1995

Buckley, Ian Occupations and Functionality: The Grain Trade in North Cambridgeshire

ESF 1996

Buckley, Ian The decline of East Anglia and the case of Whittlesey

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Burgoyne, Cindy Six Devon Towns: North Devon: Bideford, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe. South Devon: Dartmouth, Exmouth, Teignmouth

Burgoyne, Cindy Project: Occupational Study of Three Towns in Cornwall in the Mid Nineteenth Century.

Bursnell, Rebecca Aesthetics and Practicalities: Nineteenth Century Architecture in A Small Warwickshire Town: Atherstone 1800 – 1900

1994

Bursnell, Rebecca The Bath Journal 1800 1994Bursnell, RebeccaGriffiths, JanineDavidson, GaryHogge, Jonathan

A Report on the Occupational Structure of Hertfordshire 1820 – 1851

Campbell, A.J. Lancashire – ‘Small Towns and the Industrial Revolution.’

Campbell, Andrew Determining the Spread of the Gas Industry and the Location of Footwear Manufacturing using Nineteenth Century Trade Directories.

Coates, Ben The New Poor Law & The Occupational Structure of Ashby De La Zouch, 1836 - 1844: Poverty, Pauperism and Economic Function in a mid-Nineteenth Century Small Town

Crean, Sue The Huguenots in Tudor Rye ESF 1993Crean, SueForce-Jones, DickRobson, Penny

A Wander Through Worcestershire: Socio- Cultural Indicators

1993

Crean, SueForce – Jones, DickGrummitt, DavidRobson, Penny

Small Towns in Worcestershire: A Study of Urban Economy, Infrastructure And Society: The 1780’s to 1851.

Davidson, G.R. Fashion and Excess or the Historians Guide to Eighteenth Century Bath

Davidson, G.R. Chartism in Leicestershire 1838 – 1842Davies, P.G. An Occupational Analysis of Corsham: 1793 – 1855; with

particular emphasis on the clothing industry1991

Dijksterhuis, TonHager, DamonSilver, GregOosterop, DanielleVan der Zwan, Robert

Report on the Parish of Leigh in Lancashire Based on the Parish Register 1559 – 1701

Dixon, Stuart Report on ClitheroeFaire, LucyMcCormack, JamesMason, AlanSilver, Greg

Report on Occupational and Economic Diversity in the County of Norfolk 1784 – 1854

Fairhurst, J.M. “For the Relief of the poor at its Gate” A study of Medical Institutions in Shropshire Small Towns

ESF

Fairhurst, Joanne Floreat Salopia? A Discussion of the small towns of

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Settle, ClareWragg, Simon

Shropshire, 1790 – 1850

Fitch, KatherineHodgkinson, JamesLees, JonathanRidgers, Andy

An Investigation into the Occupational Structures of Buckinghamshire Towns in the Period c. 1780 - 1850

ESF 1993

Fitch, KatherineLees, Jonathan

A Study of the 1911 Census considering emigration and immigration for Buckinghamshire.

Eurocit Project

1993

Fitch, KatherineBursnell, RebeccaEringfeld, Charles

Census Figures for German Towns 1800 – 1960: A Study of Population Trends in the Rheinland

Eurocit Project

1994

Fitch, Katherine Education in Loughborough in the Nineteenth Century (Dissertation)

1994

Force – Jones, Dick The Changing Face of Swindon Form Market Town to a Town with a Specialized Industry: The impact of the Coming of the Railways to Rural Wiltshire

1993

Forster, Stuart A Report on the Final Project of the ESF Course: Morality on Hypercard

1994

Forster, Stuart V.Peachey, Kerry A.Sossick, MatthewWillis, Timothy J.

‘Bonnets, Beer and Bricks’: An Occupational Study of Bedfordshire: 1770 – 1850

1993

Fortun, Phil A Guide for the Computer Aided Learning Tutorial on Morality

ESF 1996

Gee, David A Study of Leisure in Coventry 1830 - 1850 ESF 1996Gessler, Philipp Analysis of the Parish Registers of Henley on Thames

(Oxfordshire) and Market Harborough (Leicestershire)Glen, Andy A Study of Population Growth Trends in Bedfordshire

and Herefordshire Between 1670 and 1851.Gohel, Nila A Demographic Study of Ten Manufacturing Towns ESF 1996Gohel, Nila A Demographic Study of the county of Cumberland 1996Goldsmith, A. Hypercard Tutorial: Migration A Summary ReportGoldsmith, Anita In the News? The Provincial Papers of Bath and Derby

1762ESF

Goldsmith, AnitaBarton, Paul

Data Processing Project – 1: An Analysis and Interpretation of the 1861 Census

Goldsmith, Christopher

The English Civil War and its Effects on Demographic Trends in Oxfordshire and Sussex, 1600 - 1700

1991

Griffiths, Janine A Study of Socio – Cultural Indicators and Leicester in Ipswich 1763

ESF

Griffiths, JanineBursnell, Rebecca

1901 Census Report and Hertfordshire’s Demography Revisited

Eurocit Project

1993

Group 2A Hessen; A Demographic Study 1800 – 1950Grzywacz, Jarek Birth – Baptism Interval in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, 1812 –

18401991

Hager, Damon The Press, Literacy and Society in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century East Anglia

Hamilton, Mark E. A History of the Brass Trade in Birmingham in the nineteenth century

ESF

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Hazzelby, Gareth Wyn

Uniformity, Recusancy and Dissent: Religious Life in Staffordshire 1660 – 1851

1993

Higgitt, Adam The Functions of Dormitory Towns around LondonHodgkinson, James A.

Travel Through Time: The Spectacular Growth of a New Spa Town (Dissertation)

Hodgkinson, James A.

An investigation into two newspapers: Bath Journal (1797) Derby Mercury (1798)

ESF 1996

Hogge, John Ipswich Journal 1762Hogge, John ‘The end of a great argument?’ Public Health in Calne

1850 – 1984 (Dissertation)1994

Hughes, Arwel An investigation into major attacks on immigrant communities in urban South Wales 1800 – 1950.

Ingram, Karen An Examination of the Occupational Structure of Towns in Derbyshire with Reference to the Paintings of Joseph Wright of Derby

1990

Jenness, A. Growth or decline? A Study of Seven Suffolk Towns 1800 – 1850

1990

Keaveny, Brian A. Urban Expansion: The Role of Banks in eight small Leicestershire Towns.

1993

Keddie, Will An Occupational Analysis of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.

ESF/ TN 1992

Lake, Nichola The Description Project using “Hypercard” 1995Lee, Jonathan The Provincial Newspaper: The Derby Mercury & The

Bath Journal 1760ESF 1994

Lee, JonathanMcEntagart, Olive

Data Processing Project: An Analysis of the 1951 Census ESF

Lee, JonathanGriffiths, JanineDe Deugd, AnneliesVan Mourik, Hans

Eurocit 1994 Leicester – Leiden UniversitiesGerman Small Towns: An analysis of demographic trends in Bayern and South Württemberg During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Eurocit Project

1994

Lee, Jonathan Drinking and Driving Brewing, Malting & the Thoroughfare Town. Newark-on-Trent 1835 - 1876

1994

Lees, Jonathan Hypercard Project: An Introductory Tutorial Into Fertility 1994Lootens, Kristof The Value of Town-Guides and Travellers Accounts for

Urban History. A Case Study: Bath and BristolESF/ TN 1995

Luiting, M.Hellinx, R.G.Luyting, M.Wissenburg, A.M.Van der Tholen, H.

From Adams to Wedgewood: Some Observations Concerning the Population Development in the Parish of Burslem in the Years from 1570 to 1842 AD.

ESF/ TN 1991

Mackay, Gillian Brighton 1558 – 1701: A demographic Study (Final Project)

ESF/ TN 1995

Mason, Amanda A Study of the Occupational Structure of the Small Towns in Buckinghamshire in 1851

1996

MatthewOliveInezGerard

Demographic Trends in Baden 1810 – 1957

McCormack, James Lutterworth Comparative Study of Economic and Social 199225

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Structure in LeicestershireMcEntagart, Olive The Bath Journal and Derby Mercury, 1761. ESFMcEntagart, Olive The Urban Renaissance and Stamford Summary of

ProjectESF

McGarvey, WayneThomas, JoannaHazzelby, GarethHill, Marion

A Comparative Analysis of the Warwickshire Urban Network

McGarvey, Wyane The Demographic and Occupational Structure of Eight Small Towns in Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire 1801 – 50

ESF 1993

Milne, Alastair Information Technology and Marriage Horizons: A Study of Spatial Interaction in the Alford District of East Lincolnshire

ESF 1991

Narain, Savita ‘South Asian’ Applicants to a Social Sciences Department at the University of Leicester (Dissertation)

ESF 1995

Narin, Savita What is Ethnicity?O’Rourke, Ciara A Study of the Social and Economic Structure of an

English Small Town Market Harborough in 1841Orton, Miriam The Enforcement of School Attendance as a Social

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1988

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1992

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German Census Work. Demographic Trends and Development in North Wurttemberg 1803 - 1960

Eurocit Project

1994

Powell, Daisy ‘Leicester…that is where they refuse to vaccinate, and play cricket on a Sunday!’ Approaches to Vaccination in Leicester 1850 - 1904

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1996

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Rietbergen, LouiseBerendsen, EsterReudink, GeorgWoodall, IanFaire, Lucy

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1988

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Civil Discontent within Sussex Seaside Towns, 1790 – 1890

1992

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Owens, IanHager, DamonDixon, Stuart

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1994

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