Information for Prospective Postgraduates

Postgraduate Theses in Progress 2011

  • The Huguenots and eighteenth-century Evangelicalism. Chris S. Adams (Dr. David Ceri Jones and Professor Roger D. Price.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • East German expellees in West Germany, 1945-2000. Arddun H. Arwyn (Dr. Peter A. Lambert and Professor Richard Rathbone.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Law enforcement and social order in 19th-century west Wales. David Bowmer (Dr. Owen Roberts and Dr. Eryn M. White.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Social networks and migration: Jamaicans in Wolverhampton since the 1950s. Michelle L. Buchanan (Dr. Siân H. Nicholas and Dr. Richard C. Coopey.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • The great rebuilding thesis in a regional context. Tanya C.L. Christian (Professor Phillipp Schofield and Dr. David Ceri Jones.) Wales M.Phil. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Rewriting saints: Anglo-Norman revisions of Anglo-Saxon hagiography. Kimberley A. Cosgrove (Dr. Björn K.U. Weiler and Professor Phillipp Schofield.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • U.S. policy towards Israel under President Johnson. Jodie H.B. Cummings (Dr. Siân H. Nicholas and Dr. Jessica F. Gibbs.) Wales M.Phil. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Roman Wales. Gladys Deschênes (Dr. Jeffrey L. Davies and Dr. Karen Stöber.) Wales M.Phil. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Les obediences et les obedienciers en Angleterre aux xiie-xve siècles. Harmony Dewez (Professors Phillipp Schofield and Laurent Feller) Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist./Paris I)
  • The British Monarchy 1952-77. Gareth S. Eastment (Dr. Richard C. Coopey and Dr. Siân H. Nicholas.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Cymry yn Eglwys yr Oesoedd Canol. (*In Welsh medium*.) Rhun Emlyn (Dr. Karen Stöber and Professor Phillipp Schofield.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Lady Eve Balfour and the history of the organic movement. Erin J. Gill (Dr. Siân H. Nicholas and Dr. Richard C. Coopey.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Affective devotion and the formation of a virtuous Christian disposition in later medieval English society, c.1350-c.1450. Janet M. Gunning (Professors Phillipp Schofield and Dianne Watt.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist./English)
  • An urban history of Holyhead in the nineteenth century. Gareth Hughes (Dr. Paul B. O'Leary and Dr iwan Morus.) Wales M. Phil. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Hospitality in medieval Wales. Lowri Jones (Professor Phillipp Schofield and Dr. Karen Stöber.) Wales Ph. D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • The experiences of women in agriculture in Pembrokeshire during the first half of the 20th century. Donnah E. Lewis (Dr. Steven Thompson and Professor Phillipp Schofield.) Wales Ph. D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Leisured women and the English spa town in the long eighteenth century: a case-study of Bath and Tunbridge Wells. Rose McCormack. (Professor Peter Borsay and Dr Martyn Powell.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • The road from industrialism to post-industrialism: a reappraisal of the Guild social theory of A.J. Penty. Deric L. O'Huallachain (Dr. Siân H. Nicholas and Dr. Steven Thompson.) Wales M.Phil. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Associational networks and urban identities: Swansea, 1850-1914. Barry J. Rees (Dr. Paul B. O'Leary and Professor Peter Borsay.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Lives of episcopal saints in England and Wales, c.1170-1300. Cory W.G. Richards (Dr. Björn K.U. Weiler and Professor Phillipp Schofield.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Investment in shipping: north Cardiganshire in the 19th century. John B. Rowlands (Dr. Richard C. Coopey and Professor Richard Moore-Colyer.) Wales M.Phil. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Bletchley Park: a history from below, 1939-45. Chris Smith (Dr. Siân H. Nicholas and Dr. Iwan Rhys Morus.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Infanticide in south Wales. Shirley A. Smith (Dr. Owen Roberts and Dr. Steven Thompson.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Work, school and play: childhood in south Wales 1842-1914. Mary Jane Stephenson (Dr. Owen Roberts and Dr. Steven Thompson.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Women of the great estates of south Wales. Norma E. Tribe (Dr. Eryn M. White and Professor Peter Borsay.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Crefydd a newid Cymdeithasol yng Nghymru 1945 a 1970. (*In Welsh medium*.) Llion A. Wigley (Dr. Steven Thompson and Dr. Paul B. O'Leary.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Economics and social structure of north Cardiganshire in 1891. Peter G. Williams (Dr. Owen Roberts and Professor Roger D. Price.) Wales M.Phil. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Theses Completed 2010
  • Aberystwyth University – History and Welsh History
  • Oral history's institutionalisation in British historiography: rise and crisis of a sub-discipline. Owen R. Collins (Dr. Peter A. Lambert and Professor Richard Rathbone.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Mutual impact: intellectual transfer in domestic policy between the Thatcher and Reagan administrations. Jim T. Cooper (Professor William D. Rubinstein and Dr. Richard C. Coopey.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Chwaraeon a Chymdeithas yng Ngogledd Orllewin Cymru, c.1860-1939. (*In Welsh medium*.) Meilyr Emrys (Dr. Owen Roberts and Dr. Paul B. O'Leary.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • David Rees, gweinidog Annibynnol yn 19eg ganrif. (*In Welsh medium*.) Rhodri Glyn (Dr. Paul B. O'Leary and Dr. Eryn M. White.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • The sun in splendour - George M. Ll. Davies (1880-1949), pacifism, peace-making and the creation of a non-conformist saint. Jen Llywelyn (Dr. Paul B. O'Leary and Dr. David Ceri Jones.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)

Thesis Completed 2010

  • Oral history's institutionalisation in British historiography: rise and crisis of a sub-discipline. Owen R. Collins (Dr. Peter A. Lambert and Professor Richard Rathbone.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Mutual impact: intellectual transfer in domestic policy between the Thatcher and Reagan administrations. Jim T. Cooper (Professor William D. Rubinstein and Dr. Richard C. Coopey.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • Chwaraeon a Chymdeithas yng Ngogledd Orllewin Cymru, c.1860-1939. (*In Welsh medium*.) Meilyr Emrys (Dr. Owen Roberts and Dr. Paul B. O'Leary.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • David Rees, gweinidog Annibynnol yn 19eg ganrif. (*In Welsh medium*.) Rhodri Glyn (Dr. Paul B. O'Leary and Dr. Eryn M. White.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)
  • The sun in splendour - George M. Ll. Davies (1880-1949), pacifism, peace-making and the creation of a non-conformist saint. Jen Llywelyn (Dr. Paul B. O'Leary and Dr. David Ceri Jones.) Wales Ph.D. (Aberystwyth Hist. & Welsh Hist.)