BA History student Amy described the challenging but ultimately rewarding research she undertook to shed light on violence experienced by girls and women in early twentieth century India.
Tag: History
Legacies of Colonialism in the Midlands: Stunning Spaces with Hidden Imperial Faces?
Tiana Kelly embarks on a quest to link some of the Midlands’ most magnificent buildings with their colonial past, in partnership with fellow UG Researcher Asha.
German Vernacular Photographic Heritage of the Great War
There was much more to Oliver’s scholarship than searching through photographs for ‘funky beards’. Rather, these personal photographs of German soldiers provide a sometimes emotional insight into the lives of young men, many of whom were travelling abroad for the first time.
The Sound of the ‘Big Bang’: Cataloguing the Douglas French Archive
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!
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.
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.
‘French Verse in Renaissance Britain’: A Joint Honours Dream
‘Women were responsible for producing some of the most important and popular texts translated in Renaissance Britain’ – Lucy Painter shares some of her findings from 5 weeks studying a range of translated books from Renaissance Britain.
A Journey Through the Ages: One Page at a Time
Amber Osborne (BA English) shares her experience of undertaking research to help develop a brand new final year English Literature module, ‘Histories of the Book’.