Best Undergraduate Dissertations 2026
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 |
|---|---|
| Zakia Azim O'Neill | Ireland and Insurrection: Fenianism and the Irish Diaspora in Central and East London from 1865-1886 2026 O'Neill (PDF, 1,061kB) |
| Martha Chapman | ‘Cut It Out’: Self-Harm and the Bristol Crisis Service for Women 2026 Chapman (PDF, 4,971kB) |
| Hannah Clark | Make Ellas Great Again (MEGA): How has the concept of palingenesis featured in the propaganda produced by Greek ultranationalist groups since 1936? 2026 Clark (PDF, 1,152kB) |
| Sakura Clemo | Moving, Touching, Feeling: Acknowledging the historical experience of Ngoma healing 2026 Clemo (PDF, 1,780kB) |
| Isabelle D'Abadie | Personalising Anti-Colonialism: Uncovering the Individual, Embodied Experiences of the 1970 Trinidad and Tobago Black Power Movement using Oral Histories 2026 D'Abadie (PDF, 298kB) |
| India Dale-Hill | Constructing Counter-Britishness: The British Anti-Iraq War Movement, 2001-2003 2026 Dale Hill (PDF, 1,040kB) |
| Sourhardya De | “Drive out the British Devil”: Lived Experience, Political Participation, and Long-Distance Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora in Singapore and Bangkok, 1940-44 2026 De (PDF, 913kB) |
| Joe McHugh | ‘Country of Elastic Borders,’ Country of Elastic Memories: The Function of Nostalgia in Metro-Land (1915–1932) 2026 McHugh (PDF, 1,652kB) |
| Nathan Roberts | Abuse in the Sweet Wine Farm, 1612-1623 2026 Roberts (PDF, 4,039kB) |
| Mia Viventi | Underestimated: Enslaved People with Disabilities and the Making of Resistance in the Antebellum South 2026 Viventi (PDF, 306kB) |