Postgraduate Research

Current PhD students

Luca Cheli Bianchini, 2022-present [PT], ‘The Murder of Giulia Colombi: Pride, Honour and Social Manoeuvre’, supervised by Professor Catherine Fletcher

Rika Canaway, 2025-presnet, ‘Visual Cultures of Fascism in France, 1918-1945, supervised by Dr Chris Millington

Gregory Finney, 2022-present, ‘Friends through thick and thin: Canadian personal diplomacy with Britain and the United States during the Suez Crisis’, supervised by Graham Cross

Tom Hale, 2024-present, ‘Banners and Standards: The Less Tangible Properties of Banners and Standards on Crusade’, supervised by Dr Jason Roche

Stephen Harper, 2018-present, ‘The Social Integration of Veterans with Military-Induced Hearing Loss Post 1918’, supervised by Rosamund Oates

Jemma Lakmaker, 2022-present, ‘The Social Integration of Veterans with Military-Induced Hearing Loss Post 1918’, supervised by Marcus Morris

Peter Norman, 2022-present, ‘Irish Republicanism in the 1860s in Northwest England, the Chester Castle Raid and the Failed Rising of 1867’, supervised by Dr Stuart Aveyard

Simon Olsen, 2020-present (PT), ‘British Counterinsurgency and Combat Trauma in Afghanistan, 2001-11’, supervised by Dr Stuart Aveyard

Guy Reynolds, 2025-present, ‘A Narrative Approach to War and Society in Sixteenth-Century Hampshire’, supervised by Professor Catherine Fletcher

Nicola Smith, 2022-present, ‘The Continuity of Poor Law Policy: A Hierarchy of Undeserving and Deserving First World War Disabled Ex-Servicemen in Lancashire’, supervised by Marcus Morris

Nadia Tira, 2022-present, ‘Physically Disabled American Veterans, the USO, and the Hollywood Canteen, 1942-45’, supervised by Graham Cross

Nerea Wachter Galindo, 2024-present [NWCDTP Team Project funded PhD], ‘The Limits of Humanitarianism: Health-Based Restrictions on Child Evacuations during the Spanish Civil War’, supervised by Dr Mercedes Penalba-Sotorrio

Completed PhDs

Ian Bass, ‘The Crozier and the Cross: Crusading and the English Episcopate, c.1170–1313′.

Mohemed Hagi Mahamoud, ‘Turkey’s Strategic Advantage in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Effects of Reciprocity and the Continuing Viability of the Engagement​’.

Jonathan David Harper, ‘Bridging the Gap: The British Prisoner of War & The Civil Resettlement Units 1943-1946’.

Samantha Nelson, 2021-25 [AHRC-funded, completed], ‘Women, Warfare and the Tudor Regimes (c. 1485-1603)’.

Owen Rees, ‘Trauma in Transition: Moving from Domestic to Military Service, and back again, in Classical Athens’.

Stephen Roberts, ‘The Great War and the People of Wirral in Cheshire c.1911-1925’.