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History Research Students

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Robyn Atcheson, 'Poverty, poor relief and public health in Belfast and its region c.1800-1851' (Prof. Gray)

Lisa Bogert, ‘Irish tastes: Irish-American foodways and national identity in the 20th century’ (Dr Stanonis)

Leanne Calvert, 'Gender and the Ulster Presbyterian community, 1780-1844' (Prof. O'Dowd)

Derek Crosby, 'A crowded urban space: conflict and identity in an English Town, 1300-1800' (Dr Davis)

Karst De Jong: 'The Irish in Jamaica during the long eighteenth century (1700-1840)' (Prof. Hayton)

Tim Donnachie: 'Irish Covenanters & Politics 1798 - 1892' (Dr Holmes)

Jeffrey Donnelly, 'John II Komnenos’s policy towards Antioch' (Dr Smythe)

Lauren Ferguson: 'Emyr Estyn Evans and the cultural identity of Ulster, c.1929 - 1969' (Prof. Gray)

Stephen Goss, 'Northern Ireland, de-colonisation and the Cold War' (Dr Corthorn)

Emily Haire, 'Anglo-French intelligence liaison, 1909-39' (Prof. Jeffery)

Paul Huddie: 'Ireland's responses to the Crimean War 1854-6' (Prof. Gray)

Paul Hughes, 'The republican activism of Laurence Ginnell, 1916-23' (Dr Coleman)

Stuart Irwin, 'Belfast Corporation, 1880-1914: managing a mature industrial city' (Prof. Connolly)

Aoife Laughlin, 'Electing colour: race and ethnicity in the 1848 US election'. (Dr Stanonis)

Peter Leary, 'The role of the Border in the shaping of 20th century Ireland' (Dr McGarry)

Pamela Linden, 'Jewish identity and community in Belfast, 1916-53' (Prof. Gray)

Christopher Loughlin, 'The political culture of the Northern Ireland labour movement, 1924-39' (Dr McGarry)

Conall MacMichael, 'Media reaction to and portrayal of the Black Power movement in the United States' (Prof. Clinton)

Chris Magill, 'The Irish Revolution in Counties Antrim and Down, 1919-21' (Dr McGarry)

Jeremy Maxwell, 'African Americans in the military: "From unwanted to needed:  African Americans in combat, WWII through Vietnam"' (Prof. Clinton)

Robin McCallum, 'Towns and the monarchy, 1272-1350' (Dr Davis)

Kirsty McCluskey, 'Revolutionary stories of childhood and youth: a comparative study of Trotsky and Castro' (Dr Turton/Dr Kowalsky)

Grace McGrath, 'Power, profit and plantocracy: the second earl of Belmore and Jamaican slavery' (Prof. Clinton)

Sandra Millsopp, 'The transformation of Bangor from 1831 to 1914' (Prof. Kennedy)

Amanda Moreno, Irish prisoners of war on the Western Front 1914-1919' (Prof. Jeffery)

Meadbha Ni Bhaoill, 'Women and education in North-west Donegal, 1838-1960' (Prof. O'Dowd)

Fergal O'Leary, 'Soldiers, politics and Empire: Ireland, Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1900' (Prof. Jeffery)

Kerron O Luain, 'The Fenians of 19th-century Ulster' (Prof. Connolly)

Aidan O'Lynn, 'Realms of darkness: The legacy of the Medieval in the Early-Modern English night' (Dr Marsh)

Jim O'Neill, 'Military strategy and tactics in the Nine Years War' (Prof. Connolly)

Burak Ozdemir, 'Confessionalism and toleration in Ireland c. 1660-1750, in theory and practice' (Prof. Hayton)

Daniel Ritchie, 'The public career of the Revd Isaac Nelson' (Dr Holmes)

Patrick Speight, 'Irish Argentines from Peron to the Dirty War and the fall of the generals' (Prof. Jeffery)

Ruth Thorpe, 'Elite women and material culture in Ireland 1760-1860' (Prof. O'Dowd)

Chih-Hui Tsai, 'Robert Hart and the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs' (Dr Reisz)

Neil Watt, 'Pawns or Partners? Upper-class women and marriage in Ireland, 1860-1920' (Dr Coleman)

Timothy Watt, ' Order and disorder in Ireland, 1692-1735' (Prof. Hayton)

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