UG Researcher Daniel Deegan outlines some of the benefits of spending 5 weeks transcribing audio cassettes – little did the speakers at the Westminster and City Conferences know that the next person to hear their recordings would be him!
Category: History
The Dosser’s Bible Project: How Working with an Unknown Source Changed My Research Direction
The ‘Dosser’s Bible’ was created by the founder of the homelessness charity Simon Community in the 1950’s and 1960’s and takes the form of an elaborate scrapbook with each page created from a paper bag – not the easiest source to work with, as Elena Poulet (BA Ancient History) discovered.
An Imaginary Journey to the Middle Ages: Women and the Book
Ester (MRes Modern Greek Studies) has been working with the Women and the Book project team to explore women’s interaction with book culture in the period c. 500-1600. Here, she shares some of her (sometimes surprising) findings.
Public welfare, private charity: the archives of the Sisters of Mercy, Handsworth
Working on her UG Research project gave Eleanor Hammond (BA History) the chance to see major events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the lens of the entry register of a home for Catholic orphans.
Children Born of War – The Story Told: Developing a Website on Sino-Japanese Children Born of War (CBOW)
The research that Rose Parkinson (MA Global History) undertook working with the Children Born of War team took her all the way to Germany and helped her to develop and enhance a range of very useful skills.
Researching the Imperial Midlands: Legacies of Slavery
Asha (BA History/Political Science) and fellow student Tiana were given the daunting task of researching 24 properties and over 350 years’ worth of owners for a project run in partnership with the National Trust.
CoCom and the Economics of the Second Cold War
Samuel Taylor (BA History) searches the archives for traces of CoCom, the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, and its impact on the ‘Second Cold War’.
PG Research Placement: Mapping Loss in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century London
Rik Sowden (MRes Early Modern History) returns to the topic of his 2016 UG Research Scholarship, once again working with Dr Kate Smith to map loss in 18th century London.
Bombs Across the Pond: A Summer of Research
What drives individuals to commit acts of terrorism? This summer, Julia Smith (BA History) has been working with Dr Steve Hewitt to research the lives of 20 perpetrators of terrorist acts in Canada.
More than just Peaky Blinders and Dairy Milk – My Reflection on ‘Selly Oak Activism’
Holly Pittaway (BA History) learns about the activists ‘who helped mould Birmingham into what it is today’.