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Postgraduate Research Projects

Student Research Topic
Rebecca Andrew An examination of young working-class women’s leisure in three Cumbrian rural communities between
the 1930s and the 1950s

(Ms Melanie Tebbutt & Professor Neville Kirk)

Christina Brindley Images of Female Piety and the development of post-Reformation Catholicism in England, 1558-c.1630

(Dr Rosamund Oates)

Deborah Green The Challenge of Assimilation in Post-War Britain with special reference to ‘Westward Ho!’

(Dr Louise Wilmott & Professor Neville Kirk)

David Jones Power and Powerlessness in Rural England: Small Farmers in East Lancashire, South Lincolnshire and
the North York Moors, 1918-1941

(Professor Neville Kirk & Ms Melanie Tebbutt)

Charles Mather A Comparative Study of the Development of Occupational Skills in Manchester during the Eighteenth
Century

(Professor Alan Kidd & Dr. Craig Horner)

Samantha McGhie Rise & Fall of the ‘Progressive Alliance’: Liberal & Labour Politics in Manchester, Oldham &
Stoke 1906-22

(Dr Tony Adams)

Carole O’Reilly The Sale of Manchester’s Aristocratic estates 1880-1930: Heaton Park, Trafford Park and Wythenshawe
Park

(Professor Alan Kidd & Mr Terry Wyke)

Neil Smith The Irish Middle Classes in Nineteenth Century Manchester

(Dr Stephen Davies & Dr Mervyn Busteed)

Grieg Taylor The Dynamics of Workplace Organisation at Britain’s Docks 1970-1990: the Liverpool Dockworkers in national context

(Professor Neville Kirk & Ms Pat Ayers)

Matthew Whitfield Multi-storey Public Housing in England during the interwar years

(Professor Alan Kidd & Mr Tom Jefferies, School of Architecture)