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MA Presentation Day 2010

The Department Of History.

Titles of the papers given by MA students at the end of their research presentation module

Medieval and Early Modern History  „A Doubly Marginalised Group‟: The Persecution of the Beguines and Other Religious Women in the High Middle Ages  An Investigation into the Spanish Adoptionist Heresy  Crusader Motivations: A Study of the Chronicle Evidence from the First and Fourth Crusades  Knights of God: Contemporary Western and Islamic Criticism of the Knights Templar and their Warrior-Monastic Structure during and after their Rise to Power.  Shifting Perceptions of Time and History: The Early Cistercian Order 1098-1153  „“As Soon as He Had Sworn His Oath… He Appeared to Be on Fire”‟: Oath Taking in Gregory of Tours  Citizens of London‟ in Civil War and Restoration Pamphlets and the Nature of Representation in London Politics 1640-85: A Case Study of later Stuart Political Culture  The Use of History Writing in Republican England: Henry, Earl of Monmouth‟s English Translation of Paolo Paruta‟s The History of Venice (1658)  How did Children Perceive their own Behaviour in England 1600-1693?  Politics and Polemic: Popular Responses to Henry Sacheverell‟s Progress from London to Hereford  Spiritual Nurture. The Religious Significance of the Breastfeeding Mother in Early Modern Europe  Areas of Socialisation in Sheffield 1720-1820 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History  Rational Selection, not Natural Selection: The Construction of British Eugenic Thought from 1880-1911  Public Debates regarding Abortion 1955-1975: What did the Newspapers say about Abortion?  Producing the Holocaust: the role of the BBC in constructing social memory of the Holocaust in the UK  Problems of Reintegration: German Prisoners of War and their Return Home, 1945-1949  Mussolini Ha Sempre Ragione‟: Propaganda And The Personality Cult In Fascist Italy  The Construction of Post-WWII British National Identity from an Analysis of Mass Observation File Reports from 1945 to 1949.

MA Presentation Day 2010

The Department Of History.

Titles of the papers given by MA students at the end of their research presentation module

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History cont…  The British Press and the „Troubles‟: Media Representations of Violent Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1968-1977  Inverts and Perverts: Discourses on Homosexuality in 1950s and 1960s Britain  The National Press and the British Punk Movement, 1976-79  The Passing of Body into Text: The Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland 1979-1981  Guatemala; Cracks in the Special Relationship.  ''Remaining Soviet?' The Soviet State, Society and the Ideal of the Cultured Citizen in the Late Socialist Period (1964-1984)  Conceptualising Crisis and Anticipating Risk; Expert Opinion, Thalidomide and the NHS  Experiences of Italian Immigrants in Britain during World War Two  Faces of Fascism: Perceptions of the British Union of Fascists in 1930s Britain  Czech Media Coverage of Genocide: Rwanda and Bosnia Compared  The Formation and Initial Aims of the British Legion, 1921  Love, Sex, and Relationships between Men and Women in Britain, c.1950-1970s  Ramsay MacDonald and the 1924 Labour Government  British Fascism and the Modernist Aesthetic  Representations of the Spanish Civil War American and International History  Disability and Inability: A Closer Analysis of the U.S. Presidency  Confederates of the Twentieth Century? A discussion of the ways in which the American Civil War was remembered and invoked between 1962 and 1977 

• Dr. Bedau's Guide To The Draft: Draft Counseling During The Vietnam War

 Return of the Soldier: Investigating the „Silent Majority's' Perception and Treatment of the Vietnam Veteran

MA Presentation Day 2010

The Department Of History.

Titles of the papers given by MA students at the end of their research presentation module

American and International History cont…

 A study of the Presence of Gender Characteristics within Popular Perceptions of Draft Resisters in Vietnam-era America  Losing China in the American Century: To what extent did Henry Luce Shape American Perceptions of China 1941 – 1949?  Binary Identities and Mass-Violence Committed in the Name of the British South Africa Company 1888-1895  Cecil Rhodes and the City of London  Genocide and Tourism in Cambodia, Poland and Bosnia-Herzegovina  International Influences and the Making of the African Mineworkers' Union, 1945-1955  The role of the Press war between the Right and the Left in the cause for Union of Cyprus with Greece, and the British policy in Cyprus between 1947 and 1955  The Winds of Change. The MacMillan government and decolonisation in Central Africa.  The Failure of Indirect Rule in South-Eastern Nigeria 1912-1929  Mission (Im)Possible? Frontier Violence, the London Missionary Society and the Evangelical Imagination - The Kat River Settlement, 1829- 1852