Student Work

International student body (over 100 nations) and faculty
Individual student interests are encouraged, the list below is a selection of titles of essays history students have recently chosen to write:

The Trojan War as History and Entertainment
To what extent can we regard the Greco-Persian wars, as described by Herodotus, as a genuine ‘clash of civilisations’?
Architecture and Propaganda in Ancient Persia
The Civilizing Virtues of Artistic Patronage and Cultural Superiority of Classical Knowledge
China was highly advanced and technologically superior civilisation at a very early stage of its development, arguably long before many of its rivals, why was this the case?
Only Skin Deep?: Mei Bai, Colorism and Beauty Culture in Asia
The Normans in Palestine and Wales: A Medieval Comparison
Did ‘fascism’ come to an end in 1945, or can we legitimately still use this term after this date?
‘We pretend to work and you pretend to pay us.’ How beneficial or detrimental was the command economy across Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War?
Return to Eden: Stereotypes, Imagery and Empire in James Cameron's "Avatar" (2009)

Recent Senior Dissertation titles:

Sexuality in Roman Greece during the First Century CE
The Effect of the Dissolution of Convents on Women during the English Reformation
Victorian and Edwardian Girls’ Literature and the Creation of the New Imperial Girl
The Historical Development of Teen Noir and Gendered Discourse: Veronica Mars as Case Study
Challenging Historiography: The Six Day War 1967 and the Yom Kippur War 1973

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