Rebecca Watterson is a PhD Researcher in History at Ulster University. Her research focuses on psychosurgery in the UK between the years 1940-1986. Her MA research examined why the enzyme, cholinesterase, was a major focus of psychiatric medical research in the UK during the 1950s. For this work she was awarded ‘The Birley Prize for … Continue reading A Brief Introduction to Psychosurgery in the UK, 1940-86
Reading Wellbeing in Andrew Boorde’s Dietary of Health
Imogen Knox is an M4C-AHRC funded doctoral researcher at the University of Warwick. Her research explores expressions of suicidality in early modern Britain, particularly in the context of the interference of supernatural beings in everyday life. She has broader research interests in the history of mental health and wellbeing, and featured as a guest seminar … Continue reading Reading Wellbeing in Andrew Boorde’s Dietary of Health
Limb-fitting Centres for Disabled Ex-Servicemen in the First World War
Louise Bell is an AHRC-funded CDP PhD student at the University of Leeds and The National Archives. Her thesis is focussing on British state provision of prosthetic limbs in the two world wars, and will be exploring both the prostheses themselves and the experiences of those disabled ex-servicemen who were provided with them. You can … Continue reading Limb-fitting Centres for Disabled Ex-Servicemen in the First World War
Passive Disability in Gregory of Tours
Samuel Rowe is a Medieval History MPhil student at Cambridge, writing a dissertation on the Romanness of Merovingian kings. His main research interests are on the history of identity, especially ethnic identity, but also gender, racial, cultural, dis/ability-related and LGBTQIA+ identities, mostly in the early medieval world. With his interest in martyrological stories and miracles, it … Continue reading Passive Disability in Gregory of Tours
Remote oral history interviews with disabled women activists during Covid-19
Beckie Rutherford (she/her) is in her final year of PhD research at the University of Warwick. Her project explores the life stories of disabled women and their relationships to liberation movements in late twentieth century Britain. She advocates a broad and creative understanding of activist histories with the aim of challenging ableist expectations of activist … Continue reading Remote oral history interviews with disabled women activists during Covid-19
Disability in Jewish history: the value of intersectional research
By Sam Brady Sam Brady is a third year PhD student with the University of Glasgow, undertaking a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust. His research explores the political, social and technological history of sporting wheelchairs. Beyond this, Sam has other research interests regarding the intersectionality of disability with other marginalised identities, … Continue reading Disability in Jewish history: the value of intersectional research
Recommending from the Margins: interwar American anti-Semitism and the racial logic of scholarly character
Thomas Cryer is a LAHP-funded PhD student studying U.S. history at UCL’s Institute of the Americas. His research examines race, memory, and nationhood in late twentieth-century America through the lens of the life, scholarship, and activism of the historian John Hope Franklin. Nothing crushes dreams quite like a university admissions office. As a historian researching … Continue reading Recommending from the Margins: interwar American anti-Semitism and the racial logic of scholarly character
Family History: German(-Jewish) History from the Margins
Sandra Lipner is a second-year PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London and a member of the RHUL Holocaust Research Institute. After her undergraduate studies at Tübingen University, she completed a Master’s in Historical Research and a PGCE in Secondary History at Christ Church, Oxford. Her technē (AHRC)-funded PhD project looks at German bourgeois … Continue reading Family History: German(-Jewish) History from the Margins
Understanding the process of assimilation and integration through cemeteries: The changes in funerary architecture and symbolism in the Leeds Jewish cemeteries 1840 to 1900
Sophia Lambert studies MA Social and Cultural History at the University of Leeds. She has previously researched the demography of the Leeds Jewish community during the nineteenth century and the involvement of Jewish women’s philanthropic work in Victorian Leeds. She recently published an article for the Secret Libraries blog titled, Assimilation and Integration: The Experiences of … Continue reading Understanding the process of assimilation and integration through cemeteries: The changes in funerary architecture and symbolism in the Leeds Jewish cemeteries 1840 to 1900
The Women Wax Portrait Modellers That History Forgot
Sophie Johnson is a post-graduate researcher at the University of Bristol. Her research explores the underrepresentation of pre-twentieth century women sculptors in UK public art collections. Sophie is also a Relationship Manager for Museum Accreditation at the Arts Council England. Sophie gained her BA in Archaeology at Cardiff University in 2014 and her MA in … Continue reading The Women Wax Portrait Modellers That History Forgot
Reassessing the place of women in organised crime discourse by looking at ‘Marm’ Mandelbaum – How organised crime in the USA was started by a woman
Emily Green is a Masters by Research student at the University of Exeter, researching women in organised crime in the USA. Her thesis aims to reassess the position of women in the narratives of organised crime in the USA by analysing how gender informs long-standing crime discourse. Organised crime remains to be a subject that … Continue reading Reassessing the place of women in organised crime discourse by looking at ‘Marm’ Mandelbaum – How organised crime in the USA was started by a woman
The Self vs the Public: Queen Charlotte and the Eighteenth-Century Political Print
My name is Lucy Haigh and I am currently in my final year of an Integrated Masters in History at University of Derby. My interests in history are gender studies and representations of women which is why I chose to do my dissertation on representations of Queen Charlotte during her reign. I hope to take … Continue reading The Self vs the Public: Queen Charlotte and the Eighteenth-Century Political Print
“The euphoric solidarity of sisterhood at the dance”: Parties in the British Women’s Movements
Hayley Kavanagh is a second-year History PhD student at Queen Mary University of London. With interests in emotions, feminism and protest, Hayley’s thesis draws on the work of feminist thinkers such as Sara Ahmed and Deborah Gould to explore the role of joy, laughter and happiness in the British Women’s Movements in the 1960s-1980s. She … Continue reading “The euphoric solidarity of sisterhood at the dance”: Parties in the British Women’s Movements
Reflections on the Seminar Series: Introduction
Welcome to the IHR History Lab: Reflections on the Seminar Series blog. This series of blogs offers presenters at our seminars a chance to discuss their research and to reflect on the experience of presenting. In this introduction, our seminar convenors Rachel Smith (Bath Spa University) and Ellen Smith (University of Leicester) present the autumn … Continue reading Reflections on the Seminar Series: Introduction
‘To have again a personal letter from her in one’s hand was quite wonderful’: Feelings of separation between refugees and those who stayed behind
Charlie Knight is a postgraduate researcher at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton and is funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities. He completed his bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Exeter and for the 2021/22 academic year is the joint postgraduate representative … Continue reading ‘To have again a personal letter from her in one’s hand was quite wonderful’: Feelings of separation between refugees and those who stayed behind
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