History

Research Degrees

• Medieval British and European history
• Early modern England and Europe
• The history of colonial, nineteenth- and twentieth-century America
• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European history
• Fascist and totalitarian movements in twentieth-century Britain and Europe.
• Imperial and international history
• Social cultural and gender history

Sheffield offers a stimulating, friendly and informal study environment. We aim to encourage and motivate you to achieve your full potential. You will be encouraged to present the results of your research in papers to seminars and conferences in Sheffield and further afield. We will help you to seek publication of your work as appropriate. As well as working closely with your primary supervisor, who will be an acknowledged expert in your field of study, you will also be assigned a secondary supervisor, whose expertise will lie in a related field; he or she is available to offer a different perspective on aspects of your research.

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• The Cultural Significance and Decline of Scolding in England 1600-1800
• Historical Consciousness in the English Revolution, 1640-1660
• Genealogy of the Annales: French History and the Social Sciences 1892-1933
• House of Lords Reform or a Political Sleight of Hand? The Labour Peers, the Attlee Government's Nationalisation Programme and the 1947 Parliament Bill
• Brave New World? Continuity and change in the design of the interwar suburb, with particular reference to garden design
• The Politics of Information in the Newsletter Collections of William Trumbull and Sir Dudley Carleton, 1616-25
• The Making and Meaning of Homeland Spaces: Relocation and Resettlement in South Africa, 1960-1990
• Africa's Continental War: Representations of War and Legitimacy
• The Rescue, Reclamation or Plunder of English Folk-Song: A History of the English Folk-Song Society 1898-1932
• The Representations of ‘Race’ in British Science and Culture across the Eighteenth Century
• The Origins of the [US] War Refugee Board
• Print Culture and Responses to Crime in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
• The Repatriation and Rehabilitation of Britain's Far East Prisoners of War circa 1944 – 1950
• Foreign Policy of the ANC, 1960-2005, Perceptions and Realities
• Tennessee Valley Authority and the Birth of Grassroots
• Environmentalism in the United States
• Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1918 to the 1950s
• Political Representations of European Settler Women in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe c.1945-1990
• Property, legitimacy and rights: the impact of the mendicant controversy on the exploration and conquest of the early Atlantic world
• Acquiring America: The Diplomatic Battle for America, 1914-1917
• Desensitisation to Genocide: Why Knowledge of Atrocities Does Not Automatically Lead to Intervention
• The SS Cavalry Brigade and its operations in the Soviet Union, 1941 – 1942
• Representations of Defeat: Republican Culture in the French Third and Fifth Republics
• Dreams Will Become Realities: The Dream as Religious Imperative in Early Modern England
• State and Private Enterprise: Conflicts and Co-operation in the Cold War Era. A case study of Anglo-Venezuelan Oil Relations
• A Study Of Working Class Homosexual Experience in the North Of England From 1895-1957
• Adaptation - Early Freemasonry in Late Ottoman Syria with a focus on Tripoli as-Shams (1860 – 1908)
• Multiculturalism, National Holidays and Festivals: Canada in Comparative Prospective