The Department of History maintains a thriving and diverse postgraduate community. A broad range of research opportunities are available to our students. Some examples of previous postgraduate research are shown below.
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Barbara Bowring
The cultural journey of Ann Yearsley
Mat Brosnan
The Operational and Tactical Performance and Development of the 56th (London) Division on the Western Front
Anna Brown
"Caring Power: special schooling and the 'feebleminded' in Birmingham 1870-1914"
Roger Bruton
The intellectual communities and networks of the Severn Valley and Black Country in the 18th and early 19th centuries
Louise Campbell
Matthew Parker (1504-1575) and the English Reformation
Adam Carey
Urban dynamics and the impact of public policy in Smethwick since 1945
Catherine Cartwright
The West Midlands and the development of the English tinplate industry, c. 1735-c. 1835
Richard Churchley
Non-agricultural Occupations in Rural Communities in the Heart of England 1660-1860 - a survey of the changing occupational structure in the area around Alcester, Warwickshire and Redditch, Worcestershire
Peter Darby
'Bede and the Apocalypsy: Eschatological themes in the Ecclesicastical History
Julie Davies
Alternative Hierarchies: Class and Conflict between VADs and Nurses in World War One
Paul Fantom
From the Home Front to the Front Line: Community, Patriotism and the Working Class in Wednesbury, 1914-1918
John Goss
The origins, development and influence of William Shenstone's landscape garden design at the Leasowes, Halesowen
John Hemmingway
A radical novelist in eighteenth-century England: Robert Bage on poverty, slavery and women
Sally Hoban
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham and the West Midlands, specifically the contribution made by women
Kate Iles
Constructing the Eighteenth Century Woman: The Life and Education of Sabrina Sidney
Nick Lloyd
The British Expeditionary Force and the Battle of Loos, 1915
Stefka Ritchie
Dr Samuel Johnson as a promoter of social improvement
Guy Sjögren
The Earls of Bradford and their part in the nineteenth-century industrialisation
Helen Smith
Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury, Quaker Philanthropist (1858-1951): Religion and Maternalism in her Social Welfare Work in Birmingham, 1888-1914
Janet Sullivan
The material, economic and social development of Oldbury during the Industrial Revolution
Sue Thomas
George Edmonds and the Making of Birmingham Radicalism
Marion Roberts
Close Encounters: Anna Seward, 1742-1809, a woman in provincial cultural life
Matt Vaughan-Wilson
Merchant Seamen in the Ports of Southampton and Glasgow, 1910-1926
Robin Weaver
North European Prehistoric Architecture
Katie Wright
Puritan Clothing Culture in the late 16th and early 17th centuries