1. Medway Valley Pre-Historic Landscapes Project (Paul Garwood)
What is it?
What would I get out of it?
This project aims to establish the chronology, spatial organisation, and ceremonial and mortuary significance of the unique group
of Neolithic and early Bronze Age monuments located in the lower Medway valley in Kent. These date to the period 4000-2500
BC and include some of the earliest surviving built structures in the British Isles.
 Valuable experience in key areas of archaeological data recording, analysis and interpretation.
 Experience in archive and publication preparation methods, which comprise essential parts of archaeological projects across all
research, curatorial and commercial sectors.
 The chance to work on one of the largest causewayed enclosures in Britain.
2. The Anthony Bryer Archive: Celebrating 50 years of Byzantium in Birmingham (Daniel Reynolds)
What is it?
What would I get out of it?
The aim of this project is to digitise the personal archives of photographs and slides belonging to members of the Centre for
Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies (CBOMGS). One of the most important collections is that of Prof Anthony Bryer,
which contains a wealth of unique archival material, frequently preserving a record of sites and buildings that no longer exist.
The UG Research scholar will help with creating high-resolution digital scans of the slides, scanning and transcribing any written
documentation that accompanies them.
 The chance to learn about archiving, resource management, digital humanities, and open access.
 The opportunity to work with rare, previously inaccessible evidence relating to the history of the East Mediterranean.
3. Vagrancy in Leicestershire c.1880-1914 (Nick Crowson)
What is it?
What would I get out of it?
The purpose of the project is to build a profile of the ‘types’ of individuals who are convicted of vagrancy and to explore
whether there is a consistent application of punishment by the Judiciary across the County. The primary goal of the project is to
create a database of the conviction certificates, and to use this to begin a preliminary evaluation of the above questions.
 Gain experience of working with archives.
 Learn how to manage a database.
 Develop important skills in undertaking primary research and the interrogation of the materials found that you can directly
translate to your studies (whether dissertation or special subject).
4. The Making of a Modern Metropolis: lost property in London's long eighteenth century (Kate Smith)
What is it?
What would I get out of it?
This project examines how 18th- and early 19th-century urban dwellers responded to ‘lost’ property by seeking reclamation.
The successful student will construct a database of ‘lost’ notices, which included information on the situation in which a
particular object was lost, detailed descriptions of the object in question, and information on the intermediary to whom it
could be returned.
 Learn important skills of interpreting and analysing, which will be invaluable in your future research work.
 Learn about the advantages and problems of different database designs.
 Gain experience of the nature of 18th-century print culture and the ways in which it changed and developed over the course
of the century.
 The chance to travel to The National Archives in Kew.
5. Conflict-related sexual violence: a non-issue for militaries in the 20th century? (Sabine Lee)
What is it?
What would I get out of it?
The project forms part of a wider research context of an exploration of military and governmental policies regarding militarycivilian relations.
The project will include one week of literature review of relevant materials on the history of military-civilian relations in the 20th
century with particular reference to the G8 countries, and two weeks of web-based research of policy statements of national
militaries and governments with regard to military civilian relations, starting with the UN and the Peacekeeping Training Office.
 Valuable experience in undertaking significant academic work at the cutting edge of historical/social science research.
 Access to primary source material collected from the US and Canadian archives.
 Experience of coding data extracted from primary sources.
 The chance to (co-)present the project’s findings.
6. Drivers of History: auto-mobility in Cairo and Beirut and the reshaping of the late imperial city (Lucie Ryzova, Simon Jackson)
What is it?
This project takes an innovative approach to motorized movement, examining it as a multi-faceted social practice that re-shaped
urban, national and imperial life. Between Beirut and Cairo, we are currently working on a research agenda that studies how
motor vehicles, road networks, urban planning ideology and a range of practices of mobility – from curb-crawling to taxi-hopping
to tram boycotts to loitering – combined to alter the Middle East across the period 1920-1980. The focus will be on examining
how British media presented Middle Eastern cities and the rapid changes in urban mobility, planning and politics the era
What would I get out of it?
witnessed in Lebanon and Egypt in particular.
 Access to a range of archives across the country, including those at the British Library.
 The opportunity to study state documents at The National Archives in Kew, concentrating on diplomatic and consular reports
from Egypt and Lebanon.
 The chance to hone your inventory and data management skills.
7. Birmingham: the Workshop of the World (Malcolm Dick)
What is it?
What would I get out of it?
In this project, the successful student will act as a research assistant for Malcolm Dick’s forthcoming chapter ‘Birmingham: city of
a thousand trades, c. 1700 to 1945’, which explores the industrial and commercial history of the town. They will research for
information and images relating to subjects including businesses, local transport, and retail developments using secondary
material and primary printed and archival sources.
 Be credited as a researcher in the forthcoming academic publication ‘Birmingham the Workshop of the World’
 The chance to publish a short article in the magazine History West Midlands (for which you will receive an additional payment).
 Develop research, organisational and presentation skills, relevant for many careers and which will enhance your preparation
for dissertation work.
8. Exhibiting First World War German Vernacular Photographs (Mike Robinson)
What is it?
What would I get out of it?
This project is to support the development of both an exhibition and a book that deals with the use of vernacular photography
amongst German soldiers in WW1. The project focuses on real photographic postcards as dis-inherited objects or orphaned
souvenirs to open up discussions about the way that amateur photography formed part of the memory practices of German
soldiers. The successful student would work on the selection of images for exhibition, underpinning this with further detailed
research.
 The opportunity to plan and manage an exhibition, to be held at the Fusion Gallery at Ironbridge.
 Experience of story boarding and space planning, creating a prospectus, and sourcing potential material.
 The chance to work closely with researchers, archives, and galleries in the UK, Europe and beyond.