Theses - History
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Prussian Bureaucrats and the Jews in West, South, and New East Prussia, 1772-1807
This dissertation examines policies towards the Jews in late eighteenth-century Prussia, paying particular attention to its eastern provinces in present-day Poland. Drawing on archival sources from Germany, Poland, Israel, ... -
‘Unsettled Minds’ in England and Wales, 1800-1834.
This thesis is set to analyse pauper letters to provide a new critical framework to access the emotional lives of what Edward Thompson once called ‘people from below’ under the last years of the Old Poor Law. The concept ... -
Hyde Park and Chartwell in History and Heritage
This dissertation examines Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill’s lives and legacies through the lens of their homes. This dissertation argues that homes are fertile sites for contending with the character of political ... -
The Commission for the Protection of the Natives and Belgian Colonialism (1908-1957)
This thesis investigates the Commission pour la Protections des Indigènes [Commission for the Protection of the Natives, 1908-1957], a largely overlooked colonial advice and ‘watch dog’ organ in the Belgian Congo (1908-1960). ...
