Research Students
Colin Adams
c.adams@uea.ac.uk
Research project: Empire, Race and the BBC, 1928-1968
Other research interests: post-war race relations and national identity; race and the media
James Albone
j.albone@uea.ac.uk
Research project: Roman Roads in the Landscape of Eastern England
Other research interests: English landscape history and archaeology - prehistory to post-medieval; 20th-century British military archaeology; road travel and transport in the long 18th century; historiography of Roman Britain
John Belcher
j.belcher@uea.ac.uk
Research project: The foldcourse in East Anglia
Other research interests: Landscape and agricultural history; enclosure
Matt Brand
matthew.i.brand@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/MattBrand
Research project: Conservative Refugees and British Politics, c. 1830-1871
Other research interests: Modern British history (political and diplomatic)
Dominic Bray
dominic.bray@uea.ac.uk
Research project: The external policy of Joseph Chamberlain: 1895-1903
Other research interests: British foreign and imperial policy; the politics of foreign policy and empire; reconstructing the historical context of the 19th century without bias to previous historiography
Rowena Burgess
rowena.burgess@uea.ac.uk
Research project: Family reconstitution and life patterns in rural South Norfolk
Jordan Claridge
j.claridge@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/JordanClaridge
Research project: The Horse Trade and the Economy in Late Medieval East Anglia
Other research interests: medieval history; economic history; social history; agricultural history; environmental history; historiography
Nick Crown
Research project: Representations of Catholic and Protestant Martyrdom in Tudor England c. 1530-1600
Other research interests: Puritans, iconoclasm, early modern gender roles, witchcraft, English Reformation
Sam Foster
samuel.foster@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/SamFoster
Research project: British perceptions and experiences of life in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Other research interests: cultural and ethnological history of the Balkans; the First World War in Eastern Europe; national identity and national building; interwar Europe; East European peasantry; British medical history
Christianne Gates
c.gates@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/ChristianneGates
Research project: Turkish Interest in Cyprus, 1950-59
Other research interests: National identity; ethnic conflict; Anglo-Turkish relations during the early Cold War
Thomas Goldsmith
thomas.goldsmith@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/ThomasGoldsmith
Research project: The political and diplomatic career of the Duke of Wellington, 1814-1846.
Other research interests: British and European diplomatic history in the 18th and 19th Centuries; political generations and political memory; British political history in the long 19th Century.
David Hall
D.Hall@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/DavidHall
Research project: Eden, the Foreign Office and British Foreign Policy, 1941-1945
Other research interests: British foreign policy; the Second World War; Anthony Eden; Winston Churchill; the Russian Revolution; Soviet foreign policy
Sarah Hall
s.hall3@uea.ac.uk
Research project: Anne Hutchinson and the transplantation of English puritan networks to the New World
Other research interests: Atlantic history; Colonial American history; corporate and civic identity; local history
Chris Jones
c.jones3@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/ChrisJones
Research project: French Responses to the War in Bosnia
Other research interests: Modern French history; genocide studies; international relations
Carole King
carole.king@uea.ac.uk
Research project: The leisure activities of the working classes 1840-1940 with special reference to Norfolk
Peppy Macdonald
penelope.macdonad@uea.ac.uk
Research project: Rural Settlement Change in East Suffolk 1850-1939
Other research interests: landscape and social history, particularly early 20th century
Olga Mendez-Gonzalez
o.mendez-gonzalez@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/OlgaMendez
Research project: Anglo-Iberian relations in the thirteenth century
Other research interests: Medieval history (political, cultural); medieval Church; crusades; diplomatics
Daryl Norkett
d.norkett@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/DarylNorkett
Research project: Eden, America and Vietnam; From Dien Bien Phu to the Suez crisis
Other research interests: British Foreign and Imperial Policy; decolonization; the early Cold War; Anglo-American relations
Steve Nunn
stephen.nunn@uea.ac.uk
Research project: Landscape History: The impact of Second World War home defence installations on the Norfolk landscape
Other research interests: agricultural history; architecture and literature; social history and cultural relationships in wartime; inter-disciplinary themes of history, ecology and the environment
Andrew Sangster
a.sangster@uea.ac.uk
Research project: Biography of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring - 'seeing him in context'
Liz Scott
Research Project: working title: Seed improvement c.1560-1700. subtitle: 'What is a seed? Early modern explanations
Other Research Interests: natural sciences, science, nature, environment, botany, horticulture, alchemy
Scott Siggins
s.siggins@uea.ac.uk
Research project: The built environment and national identity since the collapse of communism in Russia
Other research interests: the interrelationship between social, cultural and political history; architecture and the built environment; myth, memory and conceptions of national identity in Europe; State and society in modern Europe; Russian and Soviet history; Eurasian history
Peter Smith
peter.smith@uea.ac.uk
Research project: Petitionary negotiations in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk c. 1575 to 1662
Other research interests: socio-political interactions in mid-seventeenth century England; early history of Quaker movement in England
Nicholas Swatman
N.Swatman@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/nickswatman
Research project: England and decolonisation
Other research interests: Multiculturalism and multiracialism