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. 

Student	Title
AJ Birt	Transgender lives, lesbian histories? The reception of transmasculine figures from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first AJ Birt, 2023 (PDF, 406kB)
Charlie Standen	Charles Kingsley: Thumos, Sex, and Masculinity Charlie Standen, 2023 (PDF, 714kB)
Charlotte Vosper	Clothed with Virtue: Material and Textile in the Life of Margaret of Cortona Charlotte Vosper, 2023 (PDF, 639kB)
Fraser Cooke	Imag(in)ing Paradise: Colonial Representations of Samoa in Landscape Photography, 1875-1925 Fraser Cooke, 2023 (PDF, 2,078kB)
Henry Parr	‘Trouble Island’: The Cyprus Question in the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail
Huw Morris	‘Prescribing Enterprise’: Examining how New Labour modernised social welfare Huw Morris, 2023 (PDF, 593kB)
India Miles	Exclusion, Inequality and Poverty: The Relationship between the 1946 National Insurance Act and Black Women 1948-1965 India Miles, 2023 (PDF, 689kB)
Lani Watkins	‘A man trying to catch his manhood’: Tactile reclamations of masculinity for formerly enslaved men in Post-Emancipation America Lani Watkins, 2023 (PDF, 488kB)
Lucy Stalker	The British Press and Psychedelic Policy: The Role of Newspapers in the Escalating Legislation Against LSD, 1966-71 Lucy Stalker, 2023 (PDF, 882kB)
Mia Tucker	‘Can Adultery Save Your Marriage?’: an Exploration of British Women’s Magazines’ Discourses about Women Engaging in Extra-Marital Relationships in the 1970s Mia Tucker, 2023 (PDF, 439kB)
Natasha Nadel	The Ojibway Warrior Society’s Takeover of Anicinabe Park, 1974: A Study of Indigenous Resistance Against Canadian Settler Colonialism
Victoria Hingley	‘I would have sat on that particular fence’ - Whiteness, Liberals and Radicals in Southern Rhodesia, 1953-1965 Victoria Hingley, 2023 (PDF, 525kB)