Research
Browse a list of PhD theses about the Victorian era and the list of university teachers who teach this era. Completed theses are available from the University library of the institution where the thesis was submitted.
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Theses
From assimilation to anti-racism: the Church of England's response to Afro-Caribbean migration, 1948-81
Edson Burton
Supervised by: Dr. Madge J. Dresser and Dr. Harry Goulbourne
West of England Ph.D. Awarded 2005
Guernsey, 1814-1914: migration in a modernising society
Rose-Marie Crossan
Supervised by: Professor Keith D.M. Snell
Leicester Ph.D. Awarded 2005
Irish migration to the Scottish north-east
Kevin Kenny
Supervised by: Dr. Marjory-Ann D. Harper
Aberdeen Ph.D. Awarded 2005
Armenian refugees and the European imagination, late 19th-early 20th centuries
Joanne Laycock
Supervised by: Peter Gatrell and Sian Jones
Manchester Ph.D. Awarded 2005
Migration and identity: the development of an Anglican church in North-East Congo (D.R.C.), 1960-2000
Emma L. Wild-Wood
Edinburgh Ph.D. Awarded 2005
Emigration from Scotland and England to Queensland, Australia, 1885-8
Elspeth Johnson
Supervised by: Dr. William Kenefick
Dundee Ph.D. Awarded 2004
Assisted emigration from Birmingham to Canada, 1900-30
James Morrison
Birmingham Ph.D. Awarded 2004
Contested space, territoriality and refugeedom: the construction of ethnic and national identities in Tibetan refugee communities, 1959-2000
Laura Rubio
Supervised by: Peter Gatrell
Manchester Ph.D. Awarded 2004
John Chinaman and Fu Manchu: Chinese immigration, British Sinophobia, c.1860-1925
Katherine Rice Miller
Supervised by: Mr. Philip J. Waller
Oxford M.Phil. Awarded 2003
Norwegian Quaker emigration, 1825-98: causes of emigration, modes of travel and settlement in America
Trond Sviland
Supervised by: Mr. David Adshead and Dr. Donald M. MacRaild
Sunderland M.Phil. Awarded 2000
Internal migration and the transformation of republican Italy
William M. Broadhead
Supervised by: Professor Michael H. Crawford
London Ph.D. Awarded 2002
Conversations of the deaf: immigration, extremism and terror in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1962-72
Alexander P.H. Clarkson
Supervised by: Dr. Nicholas Stargardt
Oxford M.Phil. Awarded 2002
Jewish immigration into Britain after 1945
Sean Kelly
Supervised by: Professor Colin Holmes and Dr. Robert Moore
Sheffield Ph.D. Awarded 2002
Irish migrant identity in Yorkshire and Lancashire, 1815-45
Mariclaire Langstaff
Supervised by: Dr. Ian Duffield and Professor Robert J. Morris
Edinburgh Ph.D. Awarded 2002
Intercepting infection: quarantine, the Port Sanitary Authority and immigration in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain
Krista Maglen
Supervised by: Professor M. Anne Crowther and Dr. Marguerite W. Duprée
Glasgow Ph.D. Awarded 2002
Administering emigration: Thomas Elliot and government-assisted emigration from Britain to Australia, 1831-55
Margaret Ray
Supervised by: Professor Philip A. Williamson
Durham Ph.D. Awarded 2002
Seventeenth-century migration to the American colonies
Jenny Shaw
Edinburgh M.Sc. Awarded 2002
Nicholas Kaldor: a central European émigré and post-war British economic policy
A. Simon
Cambridge M.Phil. Awarded 2002
The pressures for immigration restriction in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924
Kristofer M. Allerfeldt
Supervised by: Professor Jeremy D. Noakes and Dr. Joseph Smith
Exeter Ph.D. Awarded 2001
To the east or to the west? Agents in the recruitment of migrants for British North America and Habsburg Hungary, 1717-70
William T. O'Reilly
Supervised by: Professor Robert J.W. Evans and Dr. Peter J. Thompson
Oxford D.Phil. Awarded 2001
Teachers
Crispin P. Bates
Research interests: Economic, social & political history of modern India; orientalism & colonial discourse; Indian tribes & colonial migration
Edinburgh (History)
Tobias Brinkmann
Research interests: Jewish migration from east & central Europe to North America; migration to Berlin
Southampton (Department of History)
Laurence Brown
Research interests: Caribbean diaspora; labour migration in 19-20c;
migration in contemporary western Europe
University of Manchester (School of Arts, Histories and Cultures)
Kathy Burrell
Research interests: European national identity; migration & refugees
De Montfort (Department of Historical & International Studies)
David Cesarani
Research interests: Jewish history; Holocaust studies; history of migration
London: Royal Holloway University of London (Department of History)
Stephen Constantine
Research interests: Emigration from the British Isles c.1800-1950; child migration; Gibraltar
Lancaster (Department of History)
Edward J. Cowan
Research interests: Vikings; Scottish popular culture; Covenanters; emigration
Glasgow (Department of History)
Martin S. Crawford
Research interests: Britain & the slave south; Potteries emigration to the U.S.
Keele (Department of American Studies)
Graham P. Davis
Research interests: Transatlantic migration of Irish hard-rock miners; Irish in the British census of 1861; the Irish diaspora; local history
Bath Spa University College (School of Historical & Cultural Studies)
Jacqueline Fear-Segal
Research interests: Native Americans; immigration; Americanization; race; education; visual & spatial history
East Anglia (School of English & American Studies)
Margaret Frenz
Research interests: Migration history
Oxford (St. Cross College)
Peter Gatrell
Research interests: Population displacement in modern Russia and Eastern
Europe; Refugees in modern world history
University of Manchester (School of Arts, Histories and Cultures)
Daniel A. Gordon
Research interests: Immigrant protest & anti-racism in France since 1961; the international movements of 1968
Edge Hill (Department of History)
Heinrich G.H. Härke
Research interests: Migrations; ethnogenesis; Anglo-Saxons; Alans
Reading (Department of Archaeology)
Jacqueline L.M. Jenkinson
Research interests: Scottish health policy 1900-48; black British history in 19th-20th c.; immigration to Britain in 19th & 20th c.
Stirling (Department of History)
A.R.J. (Tony) Kushner
Research interests: British Jewish history; 'race'; immigration & minority history; heritage of Holocaust studies
Southampton (Department of History)
Brian McCook
Research interests: Central & Eastern Europe; U.S.; comparative history; social history; migration studies
Leeds Metropolitan (School of Cultural Studies)
Martin D.W. MacGregor
Research interests: Gaelic Scotland c.1200-c.1700: society, culture, politics & identity, with particular reference to the relationship with Ireland & to the use of literary sources; migration, emigration & Irish immigration; Highlands
Glasgow (Department of History)
Neil W. MacMaster
Research interests: Algerian migration to France 1900-present; racism in France
East Anglia (School of Modern Languages & European Studies)
Alexander J. Murdoch
Research interests: British emigration 1600-1900; Scottish settlement in North America
Edinburgh (Scottish History)
William O'Reilly
Research interests: Early modern Habsburg Europe; Spanish-Austrian relations; history of migration, colonialism & imperialism; Atlantic history
Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
Joachin Schloer
Research interests: Urban history; German-Jewish history; migration
Southampton (Dept. of History)
Dmitri van den Bersselaar
Research interests: West Africa; the Atlantic world; migrant communities; identity, ethnicity, (trans-)nationalism, (post-)colonialism
Liverpool (School of History)