Best Undergraduate Dissertations 2022
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Annabel Ditchfield |
Threads of Rebellion: An Exploration Into Slave Dress as a Medium of Resistance in Texas, 1830-1865 2022, Ditchfield (PDF, 662kB) Winner of the 'Best History dissertation of 2022' prize |
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| Asha Ambasna | Sundown Towns:Persistent Atmospheres of Exclusion and the Transformation of Racist Geographies in America 2022, Ambasna (PDF, 1,557kB) | |
| Henry Brooking | Strangers in a Strange Land – Comparative Analysis of Indigenous Interactions within the Arctic and the Metropole 2022, Brooking (PDF, 1,087kB) | |
| Sam Langston | Understanding captivity anxiety, British identity and the othering of theIslamic world: A study of the impacts of Barbary piracy upon theBritish Isles during the Early Modern period 2022, Langston (PDF, 878kB) | |
| Georgia Nelson | ‘The Urban Fox Is Here to Stay’: Foxes and People in Bristol, 1930-1990 2022, Nelson (PDF, 591kB) | |
| Lottie Rosevear | Resettlement Experiences of Vietnamese Refugees in Britain, 1979-1989 2022, Rosevear (PDF, 623kB) | |
| Lucy Stimpson | History Unchained: An Analysis of the Representation of Violence, Women and Whiteness in Twenty-First Century Enslavement Films 2022, Stimpson (PDF, 1,012kB) | |
| Catrin Woodcock | Oz Magazine: The gender politics of the British counter-culture and the construction of the ‘counter-cultural woman 2022, Woodcock (PDF, 1,712kB) |