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Higher degree completions

This section covers PhD, MPhil and MA by Research completions.

PhD

  Pamela Reading
Year completed: 2008
Project: '"Reluctant reformers"?: Politics and society in Kingston upon Thames, 1830-1900'
Director of Studies: Dr. Chris French
Second Supervisors: Dr. Andrea Tanner & Professor John Davis
  Audrey Giles
Year completed: 2008
Project: 'Railway influence in Kingston upon Thames: paternalism, "welfarism", and nineteenth century society, 1838-1912'
Director of Studies: Dr. Chris French
Second Supervisor: Dr. Phil Drummond-Thompson
  Sue Hawkins
Year completed: 2007
Project: 'Myth and Reality: uncovering and discovering the nurses of St George's Hospital, London, 1850-1900'
Director of Studies: Dr. Andrea Tanner
Second Supervisors: Professor Ian Rees Jones & Dr. Chris French
  David Blomfield
Year completed: 2006
Project: 'Tradesmen Of The Thames: Success And Failure Among The Watermen And Lightermen Families Of The Upper Tidal Thames 1750-1901'
Supervisors: Dr. Chris French,
Dr. Philip Drummond-Thompson
  Roger Logan
Year completed: 2003
Project: 'The Role Of Friendly Society Orders In British Society, 1793-1911, With Particular Reference To The Ancient Order Of Foresters Friendly Society'
Supervisors: Dr. Chris French,
Professor Peter Beck,
Janet Darley

MPhil

  Mary Olive James
Year completed: 2004
Project: 'The Glovemakers of Battersea, with particular reference to the glovers of the Fownes Glove Company, 1777-1900'
Supervisors: Dr. Chris French,
Dr. Andrea Tanner

MA by Research

  Roy Edward Andrews
Year completed: 2004
Project: 'An Age of Transition in local politics?: the Kingston upon Thames experience 1886- 1914'
Supervisors: Dr. Chris French,
Professor Brian Brivati
Old drawing of the Coronation Stone in Kingston