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Hygienic Prisons: Sanitation, Healthcare and Rehabilitation, Eastern Bengal (c. 1890-1970)
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Families in arms: British military families and the experience of war, 1793-1815
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Registration and Archiepiscopacy in York: William Wickwane and John le Romeyn (1279- 1296)
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The economic and legal roles of women in London’s Court of Orphans, 1660-1720
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Gender and social history; material culture and jewelry, consumption,
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Fighting for the Habsburgs: Community, Patriotism and the Kaiserlich-königliche Armee during the Wars against France, 1792-1816
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Changing Allegiance in Aquitaine During the Hundred Years War, c.1337–1453
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Maronite Christian relations with Muslims in the Seventh Century
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Local Markets and Fairs in Eastern Bengal: History of Public Health and Sanitation (1885-1939)
Holly Day
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Memorandum Books, Markets and Identities, 1748-1850![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/history/Joe Ellis-228x228.jpg)
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The Progresses of James VI & I, c.1580-1625: authority, multiple-monarchy and gendered representation on the road
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Fountains of Knowledge: middling women’s engagement with the production, use and transmission of Natural Knowledge, 1740-1810
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Eighteenth-Century British Merchant Commercial Practice and Wokring Culture
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"Is all pappyshow": Subverting anti-corruption strategies in postcolonial Antigua and Barbuda - 1981-2021.
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Redefining the Medical Fringe: A Visual and Textual Analysis of Medical Advertisements in English Newspapers (1770-1870)
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Trust, Distrust and Local Networks in the Late Medieval Diocese of York
Keely Hayes Davies
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Pageantry, Power and Pastime: The Reconstruction of a Henrician Progress![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/history/Sarah-Hinds.jpg)
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Objects, Space, and the Household in Late Medieval Probate Inventories
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Dismantling the Empire: The Dynamics of Colonial Legacy-Building in the British Withdrawal from Hong Kong, 1979-97
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Rats in the city: Black Rats, Brown Rats, Humans and Others in Early Modern London and Amsterdam
Supervisors: Mark Jenner & David Orton
Arran Jenkins
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Leverhulme PhD Studentship Parliamentary Empire: British Democracy and Settler Colonialism c.1867-1939
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The Meanings of Excrements in England and the German countries 1470-1720
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Mary and her books: the religion, patronage and agency of England's first queen regnant, 1516 - 1558
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Between Worlds: Kenneth Cantlie and locomotive engineering in Africa, the Americas and Asia
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Social Dynamics and the Management of Sickness and Healthcare in Elite English Families, c.1620-1750
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A New Listening for a New Music. Ambient Sound, Sound-Hunting and the Tape Recorder, 1948-1978.
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Precarity, Autonomy, Spatiality: Women's Work in English Urban Centres, 1450 - 1500
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History of Vocational Training and Education in the British Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century
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The Growth and Development of Mercian Queenship: the Seventh to Early Tenth Centuries
Ayako Otsuka
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Diplomacy between Germany and Japan during World War ISamantha Portela
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Historical use of the Land in a coastal Brazilian Environmental Protection Area - Area de Proteção Ambiental Litoral Norte - APA NL![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/history/Reza.jpg)
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Shopping in Colonial Southeast Asia: Modernity and the Emergence of Consumer Culture in Singapore, Penang, and Surabaya 1920s – 1930s
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“No Musick’s better than the Winds do make”: Soundscapes in seventeenth-century women’s writings
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Invisible Hands: a study of Indian ayahs in Britain, 1870-1950
Isobel Staton
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Perceptions of Latin, and its socially strategic uses, within rural communities in late medieval EnglandResearch interests:
Seventeenth century reading as an erotic act, redefining the relationship between sex and text. Historians largely focus on 'active' scholarly reading, banishing pleasure to the periphery of studies.
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Industrious gentlemen and the moral material of individual knowledge in seventeenth-century England
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LCAB PhD Studentship in Statistics, Computing and Environmental Knowledge in the 20th Century
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Policing and ordering at the grassroots: Everyday interactions between the Shanghai Municipal Police and ordinary Chinese in the International Settlement (1911-1943)
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Technology, Culture and Public History: The Digital Ecosystem as a Habitat for History
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St Stephen's College and the Palace of Westminster, 1554-1698: Politics, Patronage and Space
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Consituencies of Control' and the normalisation of coercion in Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion, 1952-60
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Heroines and Victims: how was the category of “comfort women” created in China?
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The Influence of Indirect Translation on Chinese Thought: Western Translation through Japanese, 1896-1949