Best Undergraduate Dissertations 2025
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 |
|---|---|
| Hannah Wilks | At the intersection of Stigma and Public Health: COYOTE, AIDS, and the construction of the female sex worker. 2025, Wilks (PDF, 542kB) |
| Harry Panter | Ad[dressing] the Emergency: A Study into Dress and Materiality as Mediums of Counterinsurgency in Late-Colonial Kenya, 1937-1963 2025, Panter (PDF, 1,745kB) |
| Joe Sutton | 'PARFUL!': Escaping the Troubles? Violence, Sectarianism, and the Northern Irish Rave Scene, 1989-1999. 2025, Sutton (PDF, 636kB) |
| Katie Woodgate | Keeping up with the Supersonic Joneses: Public Responses to British Techno-Nationalism during the 1967 Sonic Boom Tests 2025, Woodgate (PDF, 585kB) |
| Lucy Hillier | Musical Fugitivity: Music, Escape, and Identity in the Lives of Enslaved People in North America 2025, Hillier (PDF, 567kB) |
| Ollie Creasey | The Intricacies of Oil, Racial Capitalism, and Colonial Cultures in Abadan: Contested Visions for Iran’s Post-Colonial Future, 1931-1951. 2025, Creasey (PDF, 1,545kB) |
| Poppy Collingwood-Cameron | ‘Disorderly Women’: Gender, Morality, and the Criminalisation of Poverty in Victorian Bristol (1890–1895) |
| Raghad Al Mashmoum | Star of the East and Neighbour of the Moon: Female Arabic Singer’s Anti-Colonial Resistance 2025, Al Mashmoum (PDF, 1,012kB) |
| Rory Conboy | TIMES NEW ROMAN How the Italian Fascist stylisation of time can be understood using film propaganda of archaeological digs. 2025, Conboy (PDF, 1,723kB) |