Best Undergraduate Dissertations 2021
Since 2009 the Department of History at the University of Bristol has published the best of the annual dissertations produced by our final-year undergraduates. We do so in recognition of the excellent research undertaken by our students, which is a cornerstone of our degree programme. As a department, we are committed to the advancement of historical knowledge and to research of the highest order. Our undergraduates are part of that endeavour.
Listed below are the the best of this year’s undergraduate history dissertations, with links to the dissertations themselves where these are available. Please note 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 (eg in the formatting of footnotes and bibliographies). In each case, copyright resides with the author and all rights are reserved.
| Student |
Title | 'Best dissertation' prize |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Baker |
The Revolution comes to Britain: Black female activism and the redefinition of Black Power in Brixton 1967-1985 2021 Baker (PDF, 1,163kB) Winner of the 'Best History dissertation of 2021' prize |
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| Sophie Albrow | ‘She ought to be a neat-handed Phyllis’: A study of the London Waitress at the Turn of the Century 2021 Albrow (PDF, 1,251kB) | |
| Daniella Bennet Remington | The Forgotten Opioid Crisis: A History of Scotland’s Battle Against Heroin Abuse 2021 Bennet Remington (PDF, 429kB) | |
| Delphie Bouchier Hayes | Getting Emotional About Boobs: An analysis of debates about Page 3 and their impact on British Feminism, 1986-1994 2021 Bouchier Hayes (PDF, 409kB) | |
| Harriet Coombs | ‘Poor, Deluded, Ignorant Masses’: A Study of the Poor Non-Slaveholding Whites of the Antebellum South 2021 Coombs (PDF, 416kB) | |
| Eliza Dadd | ‘The Haçienda Must Be Built’: Regional Club Mythology and Place-Dependent Capital in the ‘Madchester’ Era 2021 Dadd (PDF, 1,026kB) | |
| Daniel Fairgrieve | How and why did attitudes towards black heavyweight champion boxers change between 1908-1945? 2021 Fairgrieve (PDF, 966kB) | |
| Zachary Hodson | N.W.REA? Hip-Hop and Reagan’s ‘Second American Revolution’, 1984-8 2021 Hodson (PDF, 384kB) | |
| James Labovitch | "Like the Storm in the Cloud": A Study of Antisemitism Within the West German '68ers', 1966 to 1976 2021 Labovitch (PDF, 404kB) | |
| Nicolas Lykiardopoulos | “A life spent on the fringes of life-and more specifically, on the fringes of history.” (Vassilis Vassilikos) Refugees of the Greek Civil War and their role in Greek Reconstruction 2021 Lykiardopoulos (PDF, 607kB) | |
| Harvery Neil | ‘Absurd in Philosophy’: The 1616 Decree Against Copernicanism and the First ‘Retrial’ of Galileo 2021 Neil (PDF, 476kB) | |
| Tom Sherwood | Aesthetic Antecedents: Visual imagery in the Harlem Renaissance and Black Lives Matter Movement 2021 Sherwood (PDF, 9,551kB) | |
| James Vickers | “Man vs Moore’s Law: The declining relationship between chess and artificial intelligence 1950-1997” 2021 Vickers (PDF, 762kB) | |
| Mia Vines Booth | The Nazi Next Door: Memories of Nazism in Chilean Politics and Public Discourse (1970-Present) 2021 Vines Booth (PDF, 487kB) |