History

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• What was the significance of the Catholic Church in the governance of France during the period 1715-1789?
• How did one’s gender affect the lived experience of a dictatorship?: Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain
• How have histories of colonialism and empire, in the context of India, shaped literature and popular culture’s depiction of gender stereotypes?
• Was there a women’s revolution in the 1790s in France?
• The Economic Development of Medieval St Andrews: The Archaeological Evidence
• What were the key components of planting a Protestant polity in the reign of Edward VI?
• Does the Canonization of Maximilian Kolbe in 1982 Demonstrate the Triumph of Catholic-Nationalism in Post-War Polish Holocaust Remembrance?
• ‘A little microhistory goes a long way.’ Has too much historical energy been diverted in recent decades into the study of trivialities?
• Class and the Shift in ‘Love’ and Marriage in Interwar Britain
• In what ways did Middle Eastern nationalists challenge Western Imperial and post-imperial interests and ambitions in the modern Middle East?
• In what senses did the Devotio Moderna and Renaissance Humanism represent a rejection of Medieval Christianity by the Laity?
• The Changing Identity of the “West’s Other:” Understanding Polish Women’s Migration, 1980-2015
• To what extent was swooning gendered in the Middle Ages?
• ‘”The War of the Three Kingdoms” is a more accurate description of the turmoil in the mid seventeenth century than the “English Civil War”.’ Discuss.
• An Overview of Imperial- and Soviet-era Historiographical Approaches to the Study of the Time of Troubles of the Early Seventeenth Century
• To what extent was consumption politicised in France between 1789 and 1795?
• Is St Augustine of Hippo the ‘father’ of the just war tradition?
• Did the family provide a “safe haven” from dictatorship?
• Slavery, Coercion and Empire
• What was John Law trying to achieve and why did his financial experiment fail so ignominiously?
• To what extent was the Thirty Years’ War a turning point in the history of warfare?
• The Development of Literary New Persian in the Samanid and Ghaznavid Empires
• Why was the success of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) not replicated by the Dutch West India Company (WIC)?
• The “Safe Haven” from Dictatorship? Family Lives in Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia
• Consider the role of space, smell and taste in early modern lay devotion to saints.
• To What Extent did the Carlsbad Decrees Impact the Public Sphere in Pre-Revolutionary Germany?