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Roehampton; Second World War; Britain; Espionage; Literature; Gender; Spy Fiction; Public Archives; Cultural History; Representation; Stereotypes

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    Kiera Fitzgerald

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Literary Heritage and the Public Archives: The Diverse Women of Britain’s Special Operations Executive, F Section

  • Bill Edmonds [Square]

    Bill Edmonds

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Global Humanitarianism: Quaker Aid to Refugees from Nazism, 1938-1945

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    Isabelle Kemp

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Representations of Single Motherhood in British Cinema, 1945-1970

  • Joanna Brown.jpg

    Joanna Brown

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Listening: fictionalising fugitive voices and fragmented lives in the slavery archive

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    Himan Heidari

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Curious Travellers and Ambivalent Performers: British Women Travellers and Orientalism in Kurdistan (1890-1940)

  • Richard Squires

    Richard Squires

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Death-style: An essay film investigation of 1980s images of gay male depravity through the lens of ‘queer negativity’

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    Kariima Ali

    Culture and communications
    University of Roehampton London

    Exploring the History of Black Women’s Mental Health Organising in Britain from the 1970s – Present Day

  • Helen Williams [Square]

    Helen Williams

    Languages and literatures
    Brunel University London

    Unfinished Business: A study into the narrative techniques used to represent relationships between university-educated mothers and daughters in contemporary fiction

  • Thomas Hull

    Tom Hull

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Nineteenth-century Ambivalence and the Gendered Body: A Practice-based Study of Dr James Barry

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    Rebecca Pizzey

    Languages and literatures
    Brunel University London

    A study into the narrative techniques used to convey non-physical childhood sexual abuse and trauma in contemporary Western fiction

  • Adrianna Chmielewska (1)

    Adrianna Chmielewska

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Adaptation of literature into opera as a reflection of Italian cultural imagination and identity.

  • Serafina Lee

    Serafina Lee

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Unfinishing: The Draft Poetics of Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis

  • Anne Nielsen

    Anne Nielsen

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    Duplicates, Dispersal and Disposal in Museums

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    Clara Searle

    Culture and communications
    Loughborough University London

    Storytelling Personal Collections: A Tool to Dismantle the Concept of the ‘Other Audience’

  • Aurore Damoiseaux

    Aurore Damoiseaux

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Employing the materiality of clothed bodies to ask for change: the social and political weight of Greenham Women’s dress (1981-2000).

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    Jake Elliott

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    William Blake and London: The Artist Visualising Jerusalem

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    Tess Palfrey

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Dance as Play: building and fostering relationships in a post-pandemic society.

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    Nick Brown

    Culture and communications
    University of the Arts London

    The Significance of Magazine Publishing for Black British Art

  • Dana Hajaj

    Dana Hajaj

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Developing a TV Drama for the Misrepresented: British Female Arab Actors

  • Alistair Sherwood.jpg

    Alastair Sherwood

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Seeing the Funny Side: Slapstick, Visuality, and Victorian Literary Form

  • Isabel Smith.jpg

    Isabel Smith

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Affective Scribal Activity in Medieval Devotional Writing, 1300-1500

  • Manuel Cini

    Manuel Cini

    Media and performance arts
    University of Surrey

    From Ashes To Eternity - The Unknown Music Compositions of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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    Kate Ferry-Swainson

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Clothing matters: Uncovering overlooked aspects of the Holocaust through Charlotte Delbo’s literary representations of garments

  • Regan Ebsworth

    Regan Ebsworth

    Histories and philosophies
    Brunel University London

    Resistance, Collaboration, and the Spaces in Between: the Internment of British Citizens in France, 1935-1955

  • Sara Ruddock.jpg

    Sara Ruddock

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Vibrational kinship: Resonances of moving, sounding and listening bodies

  • Ellis Cuffe.jpg

    Ellis Cuffe

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Micro-Histories of Rural Romano-Egyptian Households

  • Phoebe Lambdon.jpg

    Phoebe Lambdon

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Roehampton London

    The Role of Keats House in the Twenty-First Century Reception and Reputation of John Keats

  • Kitty Clark

    Kitty Clark

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    World Building in Time and Space: Open World Video Game Mechanics in Contemporary Art Practice

  • Vicens Colomer.jpg

    Vicens Colomer

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Using reflective sociocultural e‐portfolios in a non‐immersion language learning context

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    Max Shirley

    Languages and literatures
    University of Westminster

    (Un)containable Bodies: Experiments in Life-Writing and Form, post-1968

  • Jahnvi Acharya

    Janhvi Acharya

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Home Away from Home: Exploring 'neighbourliness' and community identities among British South Asians, 1960 to 2017

  • Lisa Hinkins

    Lisa Hinkins

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Where are all the Lesbians? In search of Lesbian Lives in Museums.

  • Ömercan Tüm

    Ömercan Tüm

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Representations of Muslim Masculinities in Contemporary British and American Diaspora Novels

  • Karen Hanrahan.jpg

    Karen Hanrahan

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Narrative navigatio of former nuns: Exploring stories of transgression, reflexivity and transcendence through life history

  • Alan Lee

    Alan Lee

    Culture and communications
    University of Roehampton London

    Pride Flags and Queer Networks: The Making of the Transnational LGBTQ+ Community

  • Marta Marsicka

    Marta Marsicka

    Culture and communications
    University of the Arts London

    Representation of Central and Eastern European (CEE) female artists in the history of British exhibitions after 1989

  • Lorenza Peragine.jpg

    Lorenza Peragine

    Culture and communications
    University of Roehampton London

    Museum Choreography

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    Tom Furber

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Inclusive Engagement Practice

  • Tim Jerrome

    Tim Jerrome

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Uncovering queer histories and dissonant sexualities in rural England, c.1800-1950

  • Jane Cameron

    Jane Cameron

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Mapping Messengers: The work, urban mobility, and lived experiences of London motorcycle despatch riders, 1970 – 2000.

  • Ellennolan

    Ellen Nolan

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    The Nita Harvey Archive: Hidden History, Experience and Objectification in the 1930s Hollywood Star System.

  • Hannah Cotterill.jpg

    Hannah Cotterill

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Milk to Gall: Representations of Angry Women on Page and Stage

  • Amy Swainston.jpg

    Amy Swainston

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Commemorating the Equal Franchise Act 1928

  • Sophia Kamps

    Sophia Kamps

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Economies of Natural History: Publishing Science in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

  • Ardyn Tennyson.jpg

    Ardyn Tennyson

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    “West African Writings and Pan-African Networks: Black Periodicals and Print Culture in the Late-Victorian British Empire”

  • Emma Haughton

    Emma Haughton

    Media and performance arts
    Kingston University London

    Breaking the gender and identity boundaries of the symphonic form during the 20th century and beyond

  • Lauren Warner-Treloar

    Lauren Warner-Treloar

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Sound Art and Visual Culture: The Anti-Book Experiment in the Romanov Empire and the USSR, 1881-1932

  • Theresa Nelson

    Theresa Nelson

    Media and performance arts
    University of the Arts London

    Freedom Walks: Reanimating Ghanaian and West African Cultural Artefacts through Performance.

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    Kirara Akashi

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Edward Gorey’s Neo-Victorian Picturebooks: Unravelling the Dark Humours of Childhood Culture

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    Emma Mitchell

    Languages and literatures
    Brunel University London

    The Covent Garden Ladies: Life Beyond Harris’s List

  • Ala' Qaraman

    Ala' Kraman

    Culture and communications
    University of Roehampton London

    Empowering Displaced Children: Reimagining Urban Spaces with children

  • Evelyn Reidy.jpg

    Evelyn Reidy

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Diverse Shakespeare: New Writing from Shakespeare's Globe

  • Olivia Aarons

    Olivia Aarons

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Speaking Truth to Power: A History of Galop and the LGBTQ Community's Responses to Violence

  • Ioanna Sakellaraki.jpg

    Ioanna Sakellaraki

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    Archiving the Disaster: Preservation, Separation and Encounter

  • Nguyet Luu

    Nguyet Luu

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Can you hear us? A new model of East Asian students’ authorial voice in academic writing from a multilingual perspective

  • Amy Hare

    Amy Hare

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Period Costume Making in British Art Schools from the late 1950s and its impact on British Television & Film Dramas

  • Paul Hughes

    Paul Paschal Hughes

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Choreography as Curation as Hosting: Relational complexities and modes of production in an expanded field of practice

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    Rosannagh Maddock

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    Fashion at Speed: Spectacular Histories of Fashion, Flying and Motorsport From the Twentieth Century Collections of Brooklands Museum 1907-1939

  • Shirin Bismillah

    Shirin Bismillah

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    A Postcolonial Investigation of Desiring Homegrown Dating Apps in Contemporary India

  • Eva Dieteren

    Eva Dieteren

    Media and performance arts
    Kingston University London

    Voices from the Margins: The Cyborg Concept Album

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    Gareth Brookes

    Culture and communications
    University of the Arts London

    Materiality in Comics - Reframing Sequential Function in Graphic Novels by Confronting the Page as Surface

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    Natasha Kennedy

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    The polyglot writer: what multilingual texts reveal about writers’ emotional attachment to the languages they speak

  • Eve Barro

    Eve Barro

    Art and design
    Loughborough University London

    Colonial Coral: Design for Decolonising More-than-Human Worlds in the Natural History Museum

  • Mennan Salih

    Mennan Salih

    Languages and literatures
    University of Westminster

    Metaphors for the Social Transformations of Arab Cities: Aleppo, Baghdad, and Jerusalem Through Three Novels

  • Leon Thomas

    Leon Thomas

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Caribbean Jazz: A Performative Discourse on the Roots, Rhythms, and Reach of Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean Jazz

  • Weitao Wang

    Weitao Wang

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Geopower of Air and Fire: a Cultural Geography of Fiery Rituals in China

  • Joe Rizzo Naudi

    Joseph Rizzo Naudi

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Image Without Resemblance: combining co-creative artwork description practices, divergent mimesis and post-modern narrative technique towards an anti-ocularcentric writing methodology.

  • Zoe Few

    Zoe Few

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Pride, Passengers and Personnel: Collecting LGBTQ+ Experiences in and on London’s Transport in the 1970s and 1980s.

  • Alex Kirstukas Techne profile.jpg

    Alex Kirstukas

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Moving Pictures, Music and Theatrical Exhibition in London, 1914–1930

  • Tom Chambers [Square]

    Tom Chambers

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Photography by Train: New Leisure Experiences of Heritage in Britain, 1880s-1930s

  • Alice Mercier (2)

    Alice Mercier

    Languages and literatures
    University of Westminster

    Glass architecture and photography in late nineteenth-century storytelling

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    Sandra Lipner

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Microhistories of the Holocaust and the Use of Family History: The Families Ganz / Brenzinger, c1871 - 1945

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    Rudy Loewe

    Culture and communications
    University of the Arts London

    Unattributable Briefs: Painting and Drawing Black Resistance Histories in the English speaking Caribbean, 1969-1974

  • Tamara Schreiber.jpg

    Tamara Schreiber

    Media and performance arts
    University of Brighton

    Vectors: feminist speculations on technologies of subjecthood, objectification and gender in futuristic sex work

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    Joy Prime

    Art and design
    University of the Arts London

    A practice-based autobiographical investigation of the fashion material culture of Caribbean female couturiers from the 1930s to the present day

  • Alana Reibstein

    Alana Frey Reibstein

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Dancing as Religious Embodiment: A Philosophical Perspective on Esotericism and Occultism in Early Modern Dance

  • Phoebe Clothier.jpg

    Phoebe Clothier

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    'Wonderful and Astonishing Occurrences’: The Miraculous and Wondrous in William of Newburgh’s Historia rerum Anglicarum

  • Morag Thomas

    Morag Thomas

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    Towards a ‘Theory of Taking’: Whiteness and Collectors of Ethnographic Objects in 19th Century North America

  • Rhiannon Smith

    Rhiannon Smith

    Media and performance arts
    University of the Arts London

    The Theatricalization of Class in Performance, Policy and Practice.

  • Lolly Sillitoe

    Lolly Sillitoe

    Languages and literatures
    University of Westminster

    Ecohorror and the work of Annie Proulx: Imagining Non-Human Trauma Victims

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    Tom Railton

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    It's Not the End of the World: Nonlinear Time and Neurodivergent Making

  • Luke Beesley.jpg

    Luke Beesley

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    On Our Own Behalf: Theory, Strategy, and Practice within the Disabled People’s Movement in Britain

  • Charlotte Roberts

    Charlotte Roberts

    Art and design
    University of the Arts London

    The notational: mental health and female identity in the diary films of Anne Charlotte Robertson

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    Heathcliff Newman

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Identity Confusion and ‘Mad Gain’ in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and Russia

  • Izzy Barrett Lally

    Izzy Barrett-Lally

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    A Minor Autobiographical Tradition: Automemoir from Nineteenth-century France to Virtual Worlds’’

  • Mariachiara Tiboni

    Mariachiara Tiboni

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Between Tradition and Innovation: Women's Textiles in Venetia during the Fascist Era (1920s-1940s)

  • Verena Lercher.jpg

    Verena Lercher

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    SOUNDING OUT IDENTITIES OF THE ARTIFICIAL VOICE

  • Akosua Paries-Osei

    Akosua Paries-Osei

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Pernicious Philanthropy: The legal and medical fetishisation of black female childhood

  • Isabel Sykes

    Isabel Sykes

    Culture and communications
    Brunel University London

    Media representations and lived experiences of working-class women’s unpaid domestic labour

  • Ramish Chohan 2 [Square]

    Ramish Chohan

    Culture and communications
    Brunel University London

    Dismantling modern-day slavery: Learning from the lives of indentured brick kiln workers in peri-urban Pakistan.

  • Shaan Knan

    Shaan Rathgeber Knan

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    Resourcing Gypsy, Romany, Traveller trans youth in the UK: An exploration of intersectionality using heritage as a vehicle for empowerment

  • Aurelie Toitot.jpg

    Aurelie Toitot

    Histories and philosophies
    Brunel University London

    The politics of memory in Alsace: Nationalisation and gender in the aftermath of the Second World War

  • Wajid Abbas Rather

    Wajid Abbas Rather

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Changing Dynamics of Shi'ism in Kashmir: Commemorative practices, Identity and Transnational Influences.

  • Chiara Muzzi

    Chiara Muzzi

    Culture and communications
    Loughborough University London

    ‘What do women activists sound like?’ An exploration of women’s environmental activism in Europe through the lens of community radios

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    Jon Norman-Mason

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Re-storying the city: applying urban perspectives to eco-storytelling

  • Lillian Crawford

    Lillian Crawford

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Television Drama in Transition: Screen Two, the Single Play, and the Television Film

  • Katherine Hall.jpg

    Katie Hall

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Queer as Friends: rewriting the platonic-romantic relationship binary between women

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    Shama Khanna

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    The garden as a site to cultivate queer anti-racist communities

  • Charlotte Fox.jpg

    Charlotte Fox

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Author is Present: Contemporary Bio-Memoir (2010-2020)

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    Megan Williams

    Languages and literatures
    University of Surrey

    “Priceless Gems of Living Thought”: Literary Encounters with Anarchism at the fin de siècle

  • Lisa Hood

    Lisa Hood

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    The Weaponization of Beauty: British female film stars and the struggle for women’s agency 1938-1948

  • Julien Clin.jpg

    Julien Clin

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    Belonging in the City: Poetics of Place as Acts of Resistance Against Hyper-Commodification

  • Juliet Harrison

    Juliet Harrison

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    The Margins of Instruction: Educating Children through Narrative in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain

  • Samantha Dick

    Samantha Dick

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    I Woz Ere: An Intimate Look at the Forgotten Tower Blocks of the Edinburgh City Skyline

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    Jennifer Tuckett

    Media and performance arts
    University of Surrey

    A creative and critical investigation into women in theatre

  • Roxy Moore.jpg

    Roxy Moore

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    “We must carry on”: The Jewish Relief Unit, Displaced Persons and Anglo-Jewish Humanitarianism in Postwar Europe

  • Rosie Blacher

    Rosie Blacher

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    Sensory Experience in the Contact Zone 1876 - 1938

  • Queenie Clarke.jpg

    Queenie Clarke

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Designing for Dignity, Ownership and Representation: new approaches to the inclusivity of the homeless community.

  • Sam Bartlett.jpg

    Sam Bartlett

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    An Analysis of Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall’s Intellectual Thought in India; Exploring its Development and Contemporary Significance

  • Daniel Gottlieb.jpg

    Daniel Gottlieb

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    The ‘Golden Chain’? - Tradition as a Philosophical Problem

  • Christina Hourigan.jpg

    Christina Hourigan

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The making of a global arboretum: the case of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  • Anna Argiro.jpg

    Anna Argirò

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    Rethinking Birth and Maternity as Philosophical Categories: Hannah Arendt’s Notion of Natality in Dialogue with Contemporary Feminist Thought

  • Lucie Mclaughlin

    Lucie McLaughlin

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Sites of Art Writing: Tonalities in ‘Post-Conflict’ Northern Ireland

  • Joshua Sadler.jpg

    Joshua Sadler

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Undefinable: Performance and the Radical Practice of Generative Neurodiversity

  • Ella Roberts.jpg

    Ella Roberts

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Westminster

    The BBC and Northern Ireland: creating and accepting a shared history

  • Aleksei Ziniuk

    Aleksei Ziniuk

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    The Socialist Being of a Thing: The Concepts of Object and Structure in Soviet Constructivism and Bruno Latour's Legacy

  • Tom Pryce

    Tom Pryce

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Knowing ourselves as embodied beings: Trans-forming Heidegger, Irigaray against Derrida

  • Selam Mussie Tadesse

    Selam Mussie Tadesse

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Women’s Movements in Africa: Digital Collective Identity Building and Offline Organising in Ethiopia and Kenya

  • Pragya Sharma.jpg

    Pragya Sharma

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Cultures of Hand-knitting in North India: Provenance, Domesticity and Gendered Learning, c.1850-1980

  • Jacqueline Grainger.jpg

    Jacqueline Grainger

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Westminster

    The 'Lost' Museum: The rise and fall of the British Empire in objects

  • Mike Blackburn

    Mike Blackburn

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    Exploration into the features and characteristics of cognitive processing within multimodal “concept/puzzle advertisements”

  • Xi (Bonnie) Liu

    Xi (Bonnie) Liu

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    A Cross-Century Communication between Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf via “the Chinese Katherine Mansfield”: Narrative Legacy across Time and Space

  • Dani Trew.jpg

    Dani Trew

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Socialist Dress Reform in Britain, 1880-1914

  • Aurora Prehn.jpg

    Aurora Prehn

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Biocultural Diaspora of Tea in the 21st Century

  • Bethany Williamson.jpg

    Bethany Williamson

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Translating place: orthography and the problem of place names at the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–1919