PhD students
Here you'll find links to our current PhD students along with their thesis titles.
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Equal pay for women and Tories Out!”: The Women’s Movement in Merseyside, c.1968-1990.
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Bodies of (Dis)Order: Definitions of Abortion in Early Modern England.
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The Crime of Murdering Femininity? The scandal of Victorian and Edwardian female murderers in Lancashire, and the effect of concepts of femininity and gender roles on their crime and punishment.
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Monstrous men in the medieval mind: intertextuality and interpretation, c.1200-1350.
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The Celtic Edge: Amphibious Environments and Senses of Self on the Breton and Welsh Coasts, 1870s-1930s.
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Charity, Piety and Commerce: The Liverpool Blue Coat School and Pragmatic Politeness, 1708–1796.
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The English Ambassadress in a Cosmopolitan World: Women, Diplomacy and Politics in the Long 18th Century.
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Constructing the ‘child’ as a legal subject across the colonial divide: Sexual offence laws in Britain, India and the League of Nations, 1880s-1930s.
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Zimbabwe's Conflict Watersheds: Challenges for Peacebuilding.
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Breaking and Remaking the British Egg: Intersections of Class, Health and Animal Welfare, 1956-1999.
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Race, Slavery and Abolition at the Liverpool Athenaeum and Beyond, 1797-1833.
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Death and Emotions in Sixteenth-Century England: Preparing to Die, Funerals and the Afterlife.
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Lois Wignall
‘The “Mechanically Literate Entrepreneur” Reconsidered: Subscription Libraries and the Industrial Revolution’