The Northumbria Dissertation Repository was launched in October 2015 to share the best of the university's undergraduate research in History. While online repositories already exist for postgraduate theses, few include undergraduate research – despite the fact that many dissertations are original in conception, argument, and in their use of primary sources.
The History team at Northumbria is pleased to provide access to the excellent, archive-driven research undertaken by our final-year students. The dissertations included in this repository were all awarded first-class marks. They reflect the range of research expertise at Northumbria, as well as our commitment to research-based learning. Moreover, the pieces in this dissertation clearly testify to the skills, enthusiasm and hard work of our students.
Students will note that the referencing in the examples below is of a high standard and conforms very closely to the style required by the department. There may be occasional slips, and these slips would have been commented on in feedback, and reflected in the mark awarded.
The repository was launched by Professor Daniel Laqua and Dr James McConnel in 2015, and was maintained by Laqua until 2019. We hope to add further examples of undergraduate research to the repository in subsequent years, thereby developing it as a useful resource.
If you have any questions about the repository, please contact the Head of Subject, Dr Joe Hardwick.
Medieval and Early Modern History
Medieval
Early Modern
Modern British History
1789-1914
1914-1945
- Aldis, Francesca: “They call this spring, Mum, and they have one here every year”: An Examination of the Evacuation Experience of Tyneside Schoolchildren 1939–1945
- Carr, Jessica: Women’s Work in Munitions Factories during The First World War: Gender, Class and Public Opinion
- Isles, Scott: More Than 'an Enemy's Name, Rank and Number': Information Gaines from Luftwaffe Prisoners of War and its Use for British Intelligence during the Battle of Britain, July - October 1940
- Macfarlane, Euan: British Naval Innovation and Performance before and during the First World War: The 1916 Sinking of the HMS Invincible
- Timms, Mathew: The North East and Economic Depression, 1935–1939: The Impact of the Team Valley Corporation
- Wickenden, Rebecca: ‘For Home and Country’: The Role of the Women’s Institute in the Northumberland and Durham Counties during the Second World War
1945-
- Corrigan, Chloe: More Than the 'Fuddy Duddy Co-op': The Consumer Co-operative Movement in 1960s Great Britain
- Fairbairn, Lily: 'Born to Struggle': Working-Class Women's Activism in 1970s Britain
- Gettings, Connor: Urban Origins, Environmental Transition, and Post-Industrial Regeneration: The Consett Case Study, 1980-2000
- Kundu, Victoria: 'Roaming Mobs of Mutants!': Anti-Nuclear Culture and Protest in Britain, 1979-1989
- Sumner, Billy: Militant within Liverpool City Council 1983–1986: The Impact of and Reaction to a Left-Wing Political Movement in the Labour Party
- Tewson, Miles: The Process of Decolonization in Burma: Managing the Transition from Colony to Independent State
Modern European and International History
- Harold, Danny: Russian Exiles in Britain, 1918–1926: The Politics and Culture of Russia Abroad
- Heywood, Gareth: Education, Sociability and the Politics of Culture in Fin-de-Siècle France
- McGowan, Abbie: ‘Looted Art as an International Issue’: From Nazi Plunder to Restitution, 1939–1951
- Robertson-Major, James: A Long Half-Life: Responses to Chernobyl in Soviet and Post-Soviet Society
- Serafin, Marcel: Socialist Opposition in the Polish People’s Republic, 1964–1989
- Yan, Wai Lok Sean: ‘Cooperation With Expansion’: The Continuity of Old Ideas and Tensions in Western-Japanese Interwar Diplomacy, 1895 – 1924
US History
- Armstrong, Alasdair: Words as Weapons: Black Nationalist Poetry in America during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
- Foley, Lee: A Step Backwards: Nixon, Détente, and the American Space Program
- Henderson, Sophie: Disobedience and Defiance: Massive Resistance in Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s
- Keen, Gavin: New York City’s Societal Influence on the Punk Movement, 1975–1979
- Lisle, Ben: ‘In no other business in America is the color line so finely drawn as in baseball’: An Analysis of Black Baseball’s Failed Attempts at Achieving Major League Professionalism, 1887–1939
- McGuinness, Chloe: Bridging the Gap One Bite at a Time: A Food History of African American Activism, 1955-2015
- Paterson, Ewan: Redefining Watergate: Surveillance, Paranoia and Pop Culture in America’s Long 1970s
- Watson, Lucy: Representing the 1970s on TV: That '70s Show
- Weaver, Alice: Peace Activism and Women’s Politics: Women Strike for Peace in Context, 1961–1972
