PhD theses
The following are PhD theses by members of the Group.
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Year | Forename | Surname | Thesis title |
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In progress | Emily | Chung | Urbanization and Social Division in Victorian Manchester, 1851-1901. |
In progress | Jessica | Collins |
Female Entrepreneurs in Eighteenth-Century London: A Prosopographical Study of Businesswomen in Lombard Street, Gracechurch Street and Cornhill in the City of London. |
In progress | Emma | Diduch | Fertility Decline and Women's Labour Force Participation in Late 19th Century Derbyshire. |
In progress | Jerome | Gasson | The Auditing of Manorial Accounts on the Clare Estate, 1317-1360. |
In progress | Stuart | Henderson | The Industrialisation of the English and Welsh Leather Economy, 1700-1900. |
In progress | Elizabeth | Isaac | Subsistence crises and the spread of plague across Eurasia and the Mediterranean Littoral between 1850-1960. |
In progress | Caroline | Keinast von Einem | Exploring the Impact of Residential Relocation on Population Health Interventions. |
In progress | Emma | Kelso | The impact of economic shocks on the nineteenth-century British urban poor. |
In progress | Sarah | Rafferty | New methods to answer old questions: a study of London infant and child mortality at the turn of the twentieth century. |
In progress | Annisa | Ratri | Greying in the Coast: Understanding the Intersection of Gender Inequality and Ageing in Fishing Communities. |
In progress | Jenny | Smart | Climacteric Insanity in the Derbyshire and Norfolk county asylums, 1845-1914. |
In progress | Auriane | Terki-Mignot | Patterns of Female Employment in France, 1792-1901 |
In progress | Joanne | Wallace | Nineteenth Century English Rural Population Mobility and Small Market Towns |
2023 | Ying | Dai | The occupational structure of the Yangtze Valley in the twentieth century |
2022 | Stephanie | Brown | Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85 |
2022 | Papa Momodou | Jack | Equity in healthcare: Stakeholder perceptions on the implementation of the Community-Based Health Insurance scheme in Ethiopia |
2022 | Tobias | Lunde | An Economic Geography of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland, c.1760–1840 |
2022 | Alexander | Tertzakian | Wages, employment, and technological change in English cotton spinning, c.1780-1850 |
2020 | Lander | Bosch | On shape and being shaped: the relation between overweight and obesity in London's schoolchildren and the energy-expending characteristics of their built environment |
2020 | Cheng | Yang | The occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1736-1898 |
2019 | Alexander | Wakelam | Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century |
2018 | Alex Spike | Gibbs | Manorial Officeholding in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, 1300-1600 |
2018 | Katherine Shillabeer | Button | The Environmental History of the National Grid The Process of Electrification: Infrastructure and Influence |
2016 | Sebastiaan Antonius Johannes | Keibek | The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1850 |
2016 | Akanksha | Marphatia | Predictors and consequences of variability in secondary educational attainment in rural India: A life course approach. |
2015 | Keith | Sugden | An occupational analysis of the worsted industry, circa 1700-1851. A study of de-industrialization in Norfolk and the rise of the West Riding of Yorkshire. |
2014 | Joseph | Day | Leaving home and migrating in nineteenth-century England and Wales: evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books (CEBs) |
2014 | Xuesheng | You | Women's employment in England and Wales, 1851-1911 |
2013 | Joseph David | Barker | The emergence of agrarian capitalism in early modern England: A reconsideration of farm sizes |
2013 | Lyn | Boothman | Immobility and the immobile: A case study of Long Melford, Suffolk 1661-1861. |
2013 | Zoe | Crisp | The urban back garden in England in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
2012 | Jessie | Woo | Wills and bequests: Male and female testators in medieval East Anglia 1400-1520. |
2011 | Catherine Patricia | Sumnall | The historical geography of illegitimacy in the Gurk Valley, Austria, c. 1868 to 1945 |
2010 | Cristiana | Viegas de Andrade | Population in nineteenth-century Vila do Conde: The demographic dynamics of a north-western Portuguese urban parish. |
2010 | Stephen John | Thompson | Census taking, political economy and state formation in Britain c. 1790-1840 |
2009 | Sarah L. | Walters | Fertility, morality and marriage in Northwest Tanzania, 1920-1970: a demographic study using parish registers. |
2008 | Stuart | Basten | Registration practices in Anglican parishes and Non-Conformist groups in northern England 1770-1840. |
2005 | Karine Jeanne | Dauteuille | Household materials and social networks in Norwich 1371-1500: A study of testamentary evidence. |
2005 | Peter Michael | Kitson | Family formation, male occupation and the nature of parochial registration in England, c.1538-1837. |
2005 | Thomas William | Nutt | Illegitimacy and the poor law in late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England. |
2005 | Jennifer Louise | Phillips | Collaboration and litigation in two Suffolk manor courts, 1289-1364. |
2004 | Daniel | De Villiers Coetzee | Factors accounting for variations in voluntary enlistment in Scotland, August 1914 to December 1915. |
2004 | Julie | Marfany | Proto-industrialisation and demographic change in Catalonia, 1680-1829. |
2004 | Rhiannon | Thompson | Economic and social change in a Somerset village, 1700-1851: A microhistory. |
2004 | Tracy K. | Dennison | Economy and society in rural Russia: The serf estate of Voschazhnikova 1750-1860. |
2003 | Anisha Sasheen | Dasgupta | Poverty, pauperism and parish relief in seventeenth-century intramural London. |
2002 | Alysa | Levene | Health and survival chances at the London Foundling Hospital and the Spedale Degli Innocenti of Florence, 1741-99. |
2002 | Chris | Briggs | Rural credit, debt litigation and manor courts in England c. 1290-c. 1380. |
2002 | Neil S. | Rushton | Monastic Charitable Provision in late Medieval England c. 1260-1540. |
2000 | Catherine | Frances | Networks of the life-course: A case study of Cheshire 1570-1700. |
2000 | Alice | Reid | Infant and child health and mortality in Derbyshire from the Great War to the mid-1920s. |
2000 | Paul | Warde | The ecology of wood use in early modern Wr̈ttemberg, c.1450-1650. |
1999 | Leigh | Shaw-Taylor | Proletarianisation, parliamentary enclosure and the household economy of the labouring poor 1750-1850. |
1999 | Samantha K. | Williams | Poor relief, welfare and medical provision in Bedfordshire: The social, economic and demographic context, c. 1770-1834. |
1998 | Sharon | Lauricella | Economic and social influences on marriage in Banbury, 1730-1841. |
1996 | Carmen del Pino | Avalos | Ageing and modernization. The living arrangements of elderly individuals in a Spanish community: TaÌrrega (1897-1992). |
1995 | Christopher Roy | Husbands | The hearth tax and the structures of the English economy. |
1993 | Shongwei | Zhao | Household and kinship in recent and very recent Chinese history. |
1992 | Richard | Adair | Regional variation in illegitimacy and courtship behaviour in England, 1538-1754. |
1991 | Juan | Almecija | The family in colonial Venezuela 1745-98: An iconoclastic view. |
1991 | Claire | Davey | Re-constructing local population history: The Hatfield and Bobbingworth district of Essex, 1550-1800. |
1989 | Bridget Jane | Taylor | The economic and demographic context of enclosure: A case study from Oxfordshire, c.1550 to 1850. |
1989 | Thomas | Sokoll | Household and family among the poor: The case of two Essex communities in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
1988 | Pamela | Sharpe | Gender-specific demographic adjustment to changing economic circumstance: Colyton 1538-1837. |
1987 | Jeremy | Goldberg | Female labour, status and marriage in late medieval York and other English towns. |
1987 | Martin A. | Clarke | Household and family in Bethnal Green, 1851-71: The effects of social and economic change. |
1985 | Fiona A. C. | Newall | Socio-economic influences in the demography of Aldenham: An exploration of the techniques and application of family reconstitution. |
1985 | Sheilagh C. | Ogilvie | Corporatism and regulation in rural industry: Woollen weaving in Württemberg, 1590-1740. |
1985 | Anna | Pyrgaki | The effects of economic and social changes in the Ottomon Empire on a Greek-Turkish community (1870-1922). |
1984 | John Maxwell | Landers | Some problems in the historical demography of London, 1675-1825. |
1984 | Lawrence R. | Poos | Population and mortality in two fourteenth-century Essex communities. |
1984 | Simon R. S. | Szreter | The decline of marital fertility in England and Wales: A critique of the theory of social class differentials through an investigation of its historical origins and an examination of data for the constituent male occupations. |
1983 | Granham Arthur | Kerby | Inequality in a pre-industrial society: A study of wealth, status, office and taxation in Tudor and Stuart England with particular reference to Cheshire. |
1982 | Christopher Cleveland | Wilson | Marital fertility in pre-industrial England, 1550-1849. |
1981 | Robert Allen | Houston | Aspects of society in Scotland and north east England, c.1550 - c.1750: Social structure, literacy and geographical mobility. |
1981 | David Charles | Souden | Pre-industrial English local migration fields. |
1980 | Keith D. M. | Snell | The standard of living, social relations, the family and labour mobility in south-eastern and western countries, c.1700-1860. |
1980 | David W. | Thomson | Provision for the Elderly in England 1830-1908. |
1979 | Vivien | Brodsky Elliott | Mobility and marriage in pre-industrial England : A demographic and social structural analysis of geographic and social mobility and aspects of marriage, 1570-1690, with particular reference to London and general reference to Middlesex, Kent, Essex and Hertfordshire. |
1977 | Roger | Finlay | The population of London, 1580-1650. |
1977 | John | Morgan | Godly learning: Puritan theories of the religious utility of education 1560-1640. |
1976 | Emmanuel | Todd | Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century). |
1975 | David C. | Levine | The demographic implications of rural industrialization, a family reconstitution study of two Leicestershire villages, 1600-1851. |
1975 | Richard M. | Smith | English peasant life-cycles and socio-economic networks: A quantitative geographical case study. |
1974 | Keith | Wrightson | The Puritan Reformation of manners, with special reference to the counties of Lancashire and Essex. |
1973 | David | Cressy | Education and literacy in London and East Anglia, 1580-1700 including appendix: Schoolmasters in the Dioceses of London and Norwich, 1580-1700. |