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Student Topic of Research
Francis Salt

MPhil (2008)

The Forging of a Blind Radical: Ben Purse and the National League of the Blind 1874–1925
Dyan Colclough

PhD (2008)

Manufacturing Childhood: The Contribution of Child Labour to
the Success of the British Theatrical Industry 1875-1903
Joanne Smith

PhD (2007)

The Manchester & Salford Women’s citizen’s Association: A study of women’s

citizenship 1913-1948

Peter Ryley

PhD (2006)

‘Making Another World Possible’: Anarchism, Anti-Capitalism and Ecology in 19th and early 20th century Britain
John Henry

PhD (2005)

Labour and the Proletarian City: A Study of Politics in Salford 1919-1932
Grahame Gadman

MPhil (2004)

‘A strenuous, beneficent force’: the case for revision of the career of Samuel Gorton (1592-1677), Rhode Island radical
Richard Spencer

PhD (2003)

Labour & Industrial Relations in the Lancashire & Yorkshire Textile Finishing Industries 1918-39
David Holding

PhD (2002)

Conflict & Assimilation: Irish Communities in Bolton & Preston 1840-1914
Craig Horner

PhD (2001)

‘Proper Persons to Deal with’: Identification and Attitudes of Middling Society in Manchester, c1730-c1760
Stephen Collins

PhD (2000)

James Crossley: A Nineteenth Century Manchester Man of Letters
Christopher Crowe

PhD (1998)

The Development of Church Institutions in Dumfries and Galloway AD 450-1200: an Archaeological Approach
Neil Redfern

PhD (1998)

The Communist Party, War and Imperialism 1935-1945
Patrick Duffy

PhD (1998)

The Skilled Compositor: Change, Co-operation and Conflict in the Workplace 1850-1914
Jane Vickers

PhD (1997)

Pressure Group Politics, Class and Popular Liberalism: The Campaign for Parliamentary Reform in the North
West 1864-1868
Jennie Doherty

MA by research(1997)

The Birth Control Campaign within the Labour Party in the 1920s
Peter Shapely

PhD (1995)

Voluntary Charities in Nineteenth Century Manchester: Organisational Structure, Social Status and Leadership