Since 2009 the Department of History at the University of Bristol has published the best of the annual dissertations produced by our final-year undergraduates. We do so in recognition of the excellent research undertaken by our students, which is a cornerstone of our degree programme. As a department, we are committed to the advancement of historical knowledge and to research of the highest order. Our undergraduates are part of that endeavour.

Listed below are the the best of this year’s undergraduate history dissertations, with links to the dissertations themselves where these are available. Please note that these dissertations are published in the state they were submitted for examination. Thus the authors have not been able to correct errors and/or departures from departmental guidelines for the presentation of dissertations (eg in the formatting of footnotes and bibliographies). In each case, copyright resides with the author and all rights are reserved.

Students	Titles	'Best dissertation of the year' prize
Thom Loyd	‘Am I a spy?’: Anglo-Soviet cultural exchange and the Cold War, c. 1958-c. 1975 (PDF)	Joint winner
Sophie Heywood	Re-setting the Agenda: Jeanne Mammen’s repossession of female agency and subjectivity (PDF)	Joint winner
James Canvin	From Skollies to Revolutionaries: The Shift of Identity in a Cape Town Generation in Response to the Soweto Uprising of 1976 (PDF)
Claire Davey	Teacher Training in Bristol, 1892-1930: A comparison across gender, and through time (PDF)
Jevon Whitby	'He Has Behaved Well?' Seconds, Honour, and the Subversion of Duelling by English Society, 1798-1845 (PDF)