History: Recent submissions
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Virtue, Honour and Mischief: The Role of Youthful Disobedience in Civic Humanism and Masculinity in the Florentine Renaissance
Published 2018-05-29This thesis explores the subversive world of male youths in Florence between the mid-fourteenth century and 1530. Whereas historians have emphasised the conservative foundations of Renaissance ‘virtue’ and ‘honour’ – values ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Suez: A Crisis of British Identity Interrogating the narrative of British strength in the press coverage during the 1956 Suez Crisis
Published 2018-05-29The Suez Crisis in 1956 has been identified as a critical turning point for Britain as the global spheres of powers shifted after the war. Although the crisis marks a deterioration of Britain’s geopolitical reputation ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Heir to the Empire: Robert Menzies and The United States of America
Published 2018-05-29Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Fifteenth-Century Burgundy and the Islamic East
Published 2017-01-25In 1433, Burgundian traveller Bertrandon de la Broquière returned from a journey to the Orient, dressed as a Turk and presenting duke Philip the Good with a copy of the Qur’an. Using this encounter as a starting point, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Pacifist’s Point: William Warder Cadbury, His Mission in Canton, and Public Health Initiatives 1909–1937
Published 2017-01-12This paper examines the mission of William Warder Cadbury (1877–1959) to Canton from 1909 to 1937. As a Quaker medical missionary, Cadbury had the freedom to move around Canton and engage himself in the projects that ...Open AccessThesis, Honours