Graduate Research Showcase
Faculty of Music
Does English Music Sound English?
Alice Little
what the construction of a music manuscript can tell us about eighteenth-century perceptions of ‘national music’ ... Read More
Faculty of History
The Material Culture of Remembrance and Identity
Hanna Smyth
South Africa, India, Canada & Australia’s Imperial War Graves Commission Sites on the Western Front ... Read More
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease, 1890-1939
Lloyd Houston
This thesis examines the political and aesthetic role venereal disease and discourses of sexual hygiene played in the emergence of Irish modernism ... Read More
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Faculty of MusicDigitally Reconstructing Tudor Music Manuscripts: John Sadler's Partbooks Katherine Butler When the Elizabethan gentleman John Sadler sat down to copy his collection of latin sacred songs in c.1566-85, little did he know that he had chosen an overly acidic ink.... Read More |
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Faculty of HistoryOut of Sight and Over Here: Foreign female domestic servants in London 1880-1939 Olivia Robertson There were c.12,000 foreign-born female domestic servants in the 1911 population census, with just under half living in London.... Read More |
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Faculty of MusicThe tunebooks of JB Malchair: Oxford c.1770-1812 Alice Little From the 1770s until his death in 1812 JB Malchair, a musician and artist living in Oxford, collected traditional tunes of various nations.... Read more |
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Faculty of Medieval and Modern LanguagesStrange Bedfellows?: The Presentation of the Provincial Town in Fyodor Dostoevsky & George Eliot Philip Chadwick To date, no monograph exisits that compates the works of George Eliot (1819-1880) and Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881).... Read more |
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Faculty of HistoryThe Reformation in Upper Lusatia: Pragmatism and Tolderation, c.1520-1635 Martin Christ The Reformation is widely seen as one of the central events of the sixteenth century. In many cases it led to violence and religious conflict. Not in Upper Lusatia...Read more |
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Faculty of Medieval and Modern LanguagesLeisure Soon Gets Boring: Organised Activities for Late-Soviet Youth Lucy Dunlop In 1966, an article in the Societ journal Young Communist described the dangers of 'wild tourism'....Read more |
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Faculty of Oriental StudiesPatrons & Artists at the Crossroads: The Islamic Arts of the Book in the Lands of Rūm, 1270s-1370s Cailah Jackson This thesis is about the production and patronage of Islamic illuminated manuscripts produced in central and eastern Anatolia (known in Arabic as ‘Bilād al-Rūm’) between the 1270s and 1370s... Read more |
