Current Research Students

Postgraduate research in History ranges from late medieval religion to the Holocaust  

Richard Aldous

Winchester Electors 1832 - 1886: An electoral register-based socio-political study
Supervisor: Dr Mark Allen

Katie Clarke

Lay women’s religion in the later Middle Ages in England
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Hicks 

David Cousins

Monasteries and monasticism in late medieval Dorset (1290 - 1540)
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Hicks 

Kara Critchell

Holocaust education in British society and culture
Supervisor: Dr Tom Lawson 

Adele Guntrip

The Cornish tin and copper miners: a comparison of lifestyle and community under the old and new Poor Laws, 1780 - 1890
Supervisor: Dr Jean Morrin

Elizabeth Eastlake

Redressing the balance: Boxley 1146 - 1538, a Lesser Cistercian house in southern England
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Hicks 

Jillian Hawkins

Placenames, migration and settlement in southern England in the early medieval period
Supervisor: Prof. Barbara Yorke 

Mark Hobbs

Holocaust denial in Britain since 1945
Supervisor: Dr Tom Lawson 

Rosalind Johnson

Protestant dissent in Hampshire, c. 1640 - c. 1740
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart

Courtnay Konshuh

Depictions of Viking-Age campaigns in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Supervisor: Dr Ryan Lavelle

Alex Langlands

Travel and communication in the landscape of early medieval Wessex
Supervisor: Prof. Barbara Yorke 

David McDermott

The status of the Aetheling, aspects of succession and kingship in Late Anglo-Saxon England, with specific reference to Edmund II Ironside
Supervisor: Dr Ryan Lavelle 

Gordon McKelvie

The legality of bastard feudalism’
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Hicks 

Susan O'Brien

English Catholics and their attitudes to the Holocaust
Supervisor: Dr Tom Lawson 

Robina Rand

The Lechmeres: A study of the family, their estates and political significance, c. 1630 - 1730
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Hicks 

Brian Rothwell

The effects of the 1883 Municipal Corporations Act on local government, 1889-2012, in thirty-eight towns in England and Wales
Supervisor: Dr Mark Allen

Emily Stiles

Constructions of memory in a local context: a comparative study of Holocaust museums within Britain, Germany, Poland and the United States
Supervisor: Dr Tom Lawson

Alison Wilcox

Dissent, civil disobedience, radicalism and conscientious objection in Edwardian Britain
Supervisor: Dr Mark Allen

Simon Young

The 1980 Moscow Olympic Games
Supervisor: Dr Natalya Chernyshova