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Best undergraduate History dissertations of 2012
Best undergraduate dissertations in History, 2012
Since 2009 the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol has published the best of the annual dissertations produced by the department’s final year History undergraduates (deemed to be those receiving a mark of 75 or above). We did so in recognition of the excellent research work being undertaken by our students. As a department, we are committed to the advancement of historical knowledge and understanding, and to research of the highest order. We believe that our undergraduates are part of that endeavour.
Listed below are the the best of this year’s final year undergraduate dissertations, with links to the dissertations themselves where these are available. Please note, however, 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 (e.g. in the formatting of footnotes and bibliographies). In each case, copyright resides with the author and all rights are reserved.
| Thom Loyd | ‘Am I a spy?’: Anglo-Soviet cultural exchange and the Cold War, c. 1958-c. 1975 (pdf) Joint winner of the 'Best History dissertation of 2012' prize |
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| Sophie Heywood | Re-setting the Agenda: Jeanne Mammen’s repossession of female agency and subjectivity (pdf) Joint winner of the 'Best History dissertation of 2012' prize |
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| James Canvin | From Skollies to Revolutionaries: The Shift of Identity in a Cape Town Generation in Response to the Soweto Uprising of 1976 (pdf) |
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| Claire Davey | Teacher Training in Bristol, 1892-1930: A comparison across gender, and through time (pdf) |
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| Jevon Whitby | 'He Has Behaved Well?' Seconds, Honour, and the Subversion of Duelling by English Society, 1798-1845 (pdf) |
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