tomasiewicz, kasia
My Polish grandmother was sixteen when she arrived in Bolton. By the time teenagers today sit their GCSE examinations, she had travelled the distance of almost three-quarters of the globe. From Drohobycz in Poland (now modern Ukraine) following the arrest and murder of her father by the USSR’s NKVD aged 6, to a detention camp in Soviet Kyrgyzstan, ...
Neef, Romée
In the age of imperialism the British Empire imposed multiple projects of water management,like the Aswan Dam, on its colonies. These projects had to bring economic benefits to the colonies and coloniser while British politicians and engineers saw these projects also as an instrument to modernise and civilise the local people. This study explores t...
Hiribarren, Vincent
Cet article examine la manière dont plus de 600 000 documents produits par les différentes administrations britanniques pendant l’époque coloniale ont été dissimulés au grand public et aux chercheur·e·s depuis les années 1940 jusqu’aux années 2000. Ces documents permettent-ils pour autant d’enrichir les connaissances sur la décolonisation de l’empi...
Gordon, Michelle
This article comprises an analysis of the practices used by British colonial troops in the suppression of the Boxer Uprising in China (1900-1901). It is argued that the suppression of the Boxers presents not only a colonial war, but also a broader international consensus related to extreme tactics; the rebellion was brutally suppressed by an eight-...
Diamantis, Dimitris
This Master's Thesis examines the diplomatic relations between the BritishEmpire and the Burmese. The main axis on which Master Thesis will move isthe Treaty of Yandabo, signed on February 24, 1826, which ended the FirstAnglo-Burmese War. However, the terms and consequences of the agreementwill not be considered. The Master Thesis will examine the ...
Bui Tran, Anh-Dao
The impressive, three kilometres Victoria Bridge across the St Lawrence River, built 1853-1859 in Montreal, was crucially important to the ambitious Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) project designed to better connect Canada East and Canada West to one another, to Atlantic seaports, and thus to Europe. A partnership of famous British contractors, Peto, Bra...
Weaver, Wayne
The Anglo-Jamaican organist Samuel Felsted (1743-1802) is the only eighteenth-century composer from Jamaica whose sheet music has survived. Previous scholarship on Felsted has focussed on the rediscovery of his oratorio *Jonah*, and the list of subscribers that was published alongside it in 1775. Some biographical details about Felsted, his family,...
rachel, qi quek xin
Bachelor's / BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS)
Adams, Caitlin
This thesis conceives and reveals a hitherto unconceptualized aspect of plebeian life: linguistic economies. It defines and demonstrates linguistic economies as an historical phenomenon, and a conceptual tool for historical analysis. Employing this concept, the thesis analyses how labouring families used, exchanged, and adapted language in England ...
McKay, Daniel
The first Colonial Conference met in London in 1887. The Conference was an experiment in imperial and international political consultation and came after years of lobbying by the Imperial Federation League (IFL) and the broader imperial unity movement which sought to reform Britain’s relations with its self-governing settler colonies. For the first...
