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Centre for Urban History, M.A. & Ph.D
Author
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Title of thesis
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Degree
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Date
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Abisror, Arié
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Stoneygate: A Leicester Victorian Suburb 1891 - 1914
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M.A.
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1994
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Allman, Matthew J.
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A Study Relating to the Town Histories Published During the Nineteenth – Century, with Particular Reference to the East Midland County Towns of Leicester and Nottingham
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M.A.
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1994
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Anagnostopoulos, Aristotelis
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Serb Immigrants in Leicester: The EVW Experience
An Oral History Project
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M.A.
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2002
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Angharad, Paul
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How the Country Threatened the Town: The Urban Implications of Cattle Plague 1865
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M.A.
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2005
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Aydin, Yahya
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The Economic and Social Aspects of the London Docklands Society and the New Transport System of the DLR from 1976 to 1991
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M.A.
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2013
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Bailey, M. L.
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Market Harborough in the Early Eighteenth Century
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M.A.
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1985
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Balderstone, Laura
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Semi Detached Britain? An Analysis of Social Networks in the Outer Fringe Suburbs of Leicester
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M.A.
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2005
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Bartolome, Maria Gloria Diaz
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Cambridge and Salamanca Universities. University Town Development During the Seventeenth Century
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M.A.
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1999
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Baylis, William
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From Migrants to Settlers: A Study of Birmingham 1962 – 1967
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M.A.
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2011
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Beach, Marie
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Respectable Suburbs: Suburban Development and the Pursuit of Suburban Typology in South Leicestershire, 1870 – 1910
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M.A.
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1995
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Binder, Che Richard
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Nottingham: The election of Feargus O’Connor 1847
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M.A.
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2001
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Black, Margaret
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Retail Colonisation of Suburban Development
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M.A.
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2004
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Bonomo, Bruno
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Home and Social Identities: Middle-class Rome, c. 1945 – 1973
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M.A.
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2007
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Booth, Ralph
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The Iconography of an industrial City: Salford through the eyes of L.S. Lowry
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M.A.
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1997
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Boyd, Andrew
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The Growth and Development of Tourism in Georgian and Early Victorian Sussex
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M.A.
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1994
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Brain, Deborah
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Silk, Soughs and Sunday Schools: Economic Change and its Repercussions within Late Eighteenth Century Derby
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M.A.
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1995
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Bretas Junior, Hevandro Augusto
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Infectious Diseases and Preventative Medicine in Victorian Leicester 1851 – 1891
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M.A.
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1994
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Britnell, Tracey
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Construction of a Community: The Development of the Mount’s Suburb of Northampton 1870 - 1890
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M.A.
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1999
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Burgess, Richard George
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The Right to Buy – A Panacea?
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M.A.
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1992
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Charles, Pratheeba
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The Urban Heritage Attractions of the White Cliffs Country, Dover, Deal, and Sandwich: A Representation of the Past in the Present
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M.A.
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Clements, Helen C.S.
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Survival Strategies and Mutual Support Systems: Female Friendly Societies and the Lives of Widows and Spinsters
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M.A.
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2003
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Coates, Ben
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The Impact of the English Civil War on the Economy of London, 1642 - 1650
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Ph.D
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1997
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Copper, Simon
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Rediscovering the ‘Urban Variable’: The Politics of the Leicester Poor Law Union and the Abolition of the Guardians, 1918 - 1930
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M.A.
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1996
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Cox, Chris
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A critical Assessment of the Validity of R.A.W. Rhodes’ ‘power dependence’ theory with reference to Corby and Oundle Councils 1970 - 2000
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Ph.D.
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2010
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Cresswell, Jonathan
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Infrastrucural Landscapes of Interwar Britain
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M.A.
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2009
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Crotty, John Patrick
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Leicester Fosse: Football – It’s history growth and development within Leicester and Britain 1884 - 1915
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M.A.
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1994
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Dalzell, Rebecca
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London’s Park Concerts, 1850 – 1914: The Growth of Civic Participation in Urban Cultural Life
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M.A.
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2006
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Darragh, Phillip J.
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The impact of land availability on planning Policy. Portsmouth 1919 - 1975
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M.A.
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2000
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Davies, Ashley
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Urbanisation, Sanitation and infection: A comparative analysis of Victorian health issues in Gloucester and Leicester, with special reference to smallpox
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M.A.
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1999
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Davies, Gary
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Benefit or Blight: Visions of Urban England and Calls for its Containment c. 1925 – 1939
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M.A.
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2008
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Davies, Tim
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Survival Strategies: The Body, the Patient and the Druggist
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M.A.
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Davies, Tim
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The Promotion and Pursuit of Health, 1780 - 1880
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Ph.D.
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2008
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Deeming, Julie
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Reconstructing German Cities 1945 – 1949: Policies and Practice in the British Zone of Occupation
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M.A.
|
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Dixon, Andrew
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The management of madness: The Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum, 1870 – 1890
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M.A.
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2001
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Duminy, James William Andrew
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Street Renaming, Symbolic Capital and Urban Power Relations in a Post-Apartheid City: The Case of Durban, South Africa, 2007 to 2008
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M.A.
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2009
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Elliott, Samantha Louise
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‘Saving the Children’s Lives’: Urban Strategies to Combat Leicester’s High Infant Mortality Rate, 1870 to 1914
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M.A.
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2002
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Eve, C.R.T
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A Bibliography of the Small Towns in Northamptonshire 1600 – 1850 (expanded M.A.)
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M.A.
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1993
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Ewen, Shane
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Power and Surveillance in the Modern Urban Body Politic
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M.A.
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2000
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Farndale, Paul
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Tuberculosis: A Case Study of the Disease in Leicester and Bradford 1919 – 1974
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M.A.
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Flevas, Costas
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The Athens 2004 Olympic Games as a historical event: socio-spatial symbiosis and expressed enthusiasm
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M.A
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2005
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Flower, Jonathan
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An analysis of the decision to transfer the capital of British India, Calcutta, to New Delhi in 1911 and the ramifications which occurred
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M.A.
|
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Fogg, Claire
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The Urban Working Class in British Cinema (1958 – 1963)
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M.A.
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1995
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Forrest, Susan
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Occupational Structure of Early Nineteenth Century Peterborough, 1822 – 1849
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M.A.
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2002
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Fowler, Jeannette Marie
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Politics, Policies and Perceptions: Tuberculosis and the BCG Vaccination
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M.A.
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2002
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French, Gervase Peter
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Governance, Meditation and Execution: Water Management in Sheffield and Leicester, c. 1850 - 1900
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M.A.
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2004
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Fry, Alexander James Allan
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Urban Growth and development of football: a local study, 1880 – 1914
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M.A.
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1996
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Gábor, Peter
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Changes in Town Panning of Leicester’s Central Area: Comparison of four plans elaborated between 1956 and 1996
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M.A.
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2000
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Goodall, Stuart
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The Growth of a Watering Place: Dover circa 1790 – 1840
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M.A.
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1995
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Grummitt, David I.
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Some Aspects of the Economic, Political and Social History of Sandwich, Kent 1509 - 1603
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M.A.
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1993
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Gunter, Peter
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Municipal interventionism – the building of public utilities in Leicester and Sopron in the 19th century
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M.A.
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1997
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Harriman, Sean Christopher
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The city and the car: Buchanan, Smigielski and the problem of traffic in the 1960s
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M.A.
|
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Harrison, Emma
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Northampton 1910 – Homogenous Shoe Town or Diverse County Town?
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M.A.
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2004
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Harrison, Richard
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‘To Move With the Times We Cannot Have Lines’: The Decline of Leicester’s Tramway Systems, 1930 - 1950
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M.A.
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2005
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Harrison, Richard
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The consequences of the Westway: the material and social effects of contested construction project on a local community, and it implications for national transport and planning policy 1960 - 1983
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M.A.
|
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Hartshorne, Sally Ann
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The Role of the Arts and Culture in the Urban Environment since the Thatcher Government of 1979
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M.A.
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2013
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Hayes, Phillip
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In the aftermath of industrialisation – Stockholm 1910. A Study of brewery workers from Munchen Bryggeriet AB & Nurnberg Bryggeriet AB
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M.A.
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1999
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Hegedus, Viktoria
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Renewal of the Industrial Architectural Heritage: The Roundhouse in Camden Town 1960 - 1996
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M.A.
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1996
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Henton, Elizabeth
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A Study of the Irish Population of the City of York during the second half of the Nineteenth Century
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M.A.
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2000
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Henwood, Mark
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Town Planning in Bournemouth 1946 – 1952: Abercrombie’s Vision Fades
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M.A.
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1995
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Herbert, Joanna
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The Construction of London’s Chinatown 1900 - 1990
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M.A.
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2000
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Hewitt, Lucy
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Sociological Accounts of the City in the Early Twentieth Century: Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Patrick Geddes
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M.A.
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2007
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Heysmond, Richard J.
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Culture and Society: Nottingham in the Eighteenth Century
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M.A.
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1998
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Hicks, Daniel
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London’s Docklands – a study of regeneration and conflict
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M.A.
|
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Higgitt, George Leonard
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Leicester The Divided Community 1750 - 1800
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M.A.
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2001
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Hill, Georgina L.
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Self – interest or genuine concern – the role played by Anglo – Jewry during the mass immigration of Jews to London from Russia and Eastern Europe, 1880 – 1914.
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M.A.
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1993
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Holmes, Jennifer Frances
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Policing an English Country Town: The Policing and Policemen of Ipswich, 1851 – 1876
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M.A.
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1995
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Horemans, Boris
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The Four Crowned Martyrs guild in eighteenth – century Mechelen: an explorative inquiry into the nature of building craft guilds in provincial towns of the Southern Low Countries
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M.A.
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2012
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Hulme, Thomas J.
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‘Safe for Democracy’: Civic Festivals and the Production of the Citizen in 1920s Chicago and Manchester
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M.A.
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2009
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Inès, Hassen
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The city centre renewal plans of both Leicester and Reims in the 1960s
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M.A.
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2011
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Jones, Phil
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Local Authority High Rise Building In Britain and the Impact of the 1968 Ronan Point Disaster
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M.A.
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1999
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Jones, Rachel
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A History of the Planning of Leicester Central Ring Road
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M.A.
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1996
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Joseph, Samantha
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The Role of the Natural environment in Post – War English City Planning. Case Study: Leicester
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M.A.
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2013
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King, Stephanie
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A Study of the Changes in Inner City Policy Since the 1970’s Using Leicester as a Case Study
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M.A.
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1996
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Kocsis, János B.
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The social – historical background and the development of a garden suburb in fin-de-siècle Budapest
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M.A.
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2002
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Latham, Mark
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Urban Constant and Change: a study of eighteenth-century Moorfields
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M.A.
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2005
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Lester, Claire
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Housing in Plymouth in the Post War Period: The Neighbourhood Unit
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M.A.
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2004
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Littlewood, Simon
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Steel and the City: steel construction and the birth of the vertical city
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M.A.
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2000
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Lootens, Kristof
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Continuity and Change of Environmental Problems in Urban Ecosystems of the Sixteenth Century: A Comparative Study: England (Leicester, Nottingham, Northampton, Flanders (Courtrai))
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M.A.
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1994
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Lupton, Nicki
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Paradise abandoned: an investigation of the significance of the Central Library in the city of the motor car
|
|
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Madgin, Rebecca May
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Castlefield: Transformation of Image and Appearance 1945 – 95
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M.A.
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2004
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Mansfield, Thomas
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Scottish Dreams of Empire: A Reappraisal of the failure of the Darien scheme, 1696 - 1700
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M.A.
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2007
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Martin, Robert
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Alfred’s Winchester: A Second Rome
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M.A.
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2011
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Martins, Victoria
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A Study of the Extent to which the Classical Style was used in the Urban Fabric of Norfolk Small Towns, 1720 – 1800
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M.A.
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1996
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Mason, Alan
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Impact of the Railway on Leicestershire: A Study of occupational Structures & Transport Networks in Four Leicestershire Towns
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M.A.
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1992
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Melbourne, Sally
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Housing and the issues surrounding the Right to Buy
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M.A.
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1997
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Miller, Michael James
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From Master Plan to Pragmatism. The Development of Beaumont Leys 1960 – 1980
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M.A.
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1991
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Mitchell, Anne
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The Persistence of Urban Autonomy: School Health Provisions In Leicester, 1870 - 1939
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M.A.
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2002
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Mitchell, Jon
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Humanitarianism by Numbers: The use of statistics in the movement against capital punishment, 1840 - 1868
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M.A.
|
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Mockford, Jack David
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Domestic Technology and the Eighteenth-Century Urban Middling Sort: Identity Gender, Objects and Skills
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M.A.
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2009
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Morley, Ian
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The contribution of Sir Aston Webb to the Development of the Modern British Town Planning Movement, Circa 1900 – 1914
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M.A.
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1995
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Nagy, Erika
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Fall and revival of city centre retailing: a case-study from Leicester
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M.A.
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1997
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Neale, Matthew
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Crime in the Household Domestic Servants in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey
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M.A.
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2008
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Noble, Malcolm
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The Languages of Common Good: Municipal Reform, Urban Governance, and Charity Administration, Leicester c. 1820 – c. 1850
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M.A.
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2008
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Olusoga, David Adetayo
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Slums and the Housing Problem in Nineteenth Century Gateshead. A Study of the factors responsible for the formation and perpetuation of slums in Gateshead 1843 – 1900
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M.A.
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1995
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Palai, Patrik
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New Town Programmes. The Reasons for the Circumstances of the Development of Stevenage New Town, Great Britain and Dunaújváros, Hungary A comparative Analysis
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M.A.
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2000
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Panagopoulos, Yorgos
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Urban Strategies and Architecture in British Corfu (1814 – 1864)
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M.A.
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1995
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Peavitt, Helen
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In the Mid Nineteenth Century – An Analysis Using the 1851 Census Returns
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M.A.
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1993
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Penn, Catherine E.
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The Early Years of Welwyn Garden City
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M.A.
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1992
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Penney, Steve
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The Parish of Oldswinford, Continuity and Contrast, a Religious Landscape
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M.A.
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1994
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Plotar, Fatime
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The Wekerle Estate: A Garden City in Budapest
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M.A.
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2000
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Polyák, Andrea
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Problems and solutions of working class housing in the nineteenth century in Edinburgh and Budapest
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M.A.
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Proctor, Alice
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Objects of Charity and Pity? Disabled People in Warwickshire, as seen through the Quarter Sessions, c. 1625 – 1622
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M.A.
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2007
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Renard, Cédric
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The success of Les Minimes: Ideal and reality (1971 – 1999)
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M.A.
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2005
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Rogalski, Stephanie Alexandra
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The Presence of the Past in the Development of Post-War Coventry
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M.A.
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2010
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Root, Denis A.
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Control through urban networks: a comparative study of Roman control in Campania and Cisalpine Gaul in the middle and late Republic (338 – 155 BC)
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M.A.
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1992
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Savage, Timothy Christopher
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‘What have we got to pageant about in Leicester?’: Historical Pageants in twentieth-century Britain
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M.A.
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2008
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Seliga, Joseph
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Neighbourhood...Religion…Community: The role of religious institutions in the Belgrave area of Leicester, 1965 - 1995
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M.A.
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1996
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Shirata, Yuji
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‘The Orgy of Spirit – Drinking’ and London Society 1720 – 1751
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M.A.
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Sierra, David De Obregon Y
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Musical Life in London and Madrid from the Restoration Until Handel’s Death (1660 – 1757)
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M.A.
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1999
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Small, Mark
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Perceptions of Masculinity in the Urban Realm from 1819 to 1851
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M.A.
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2010
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Smith, Ian R.
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Patchwork Expediency or Emergent Planning? An Examination of the Major Themes of Central Redevelopment in Inter – War Coventry
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M.A.
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1993
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Smith, Janet Lillian
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‘Public Responsibilities’ The Entry of Women into Public Life in Leicester 1870 – 1920
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M.A.
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1995
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Stevens, Faith
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Open Spaces for the People. The aims and achievements of Octavia Hill in Nineteenth – Century London
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M.A.
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1993
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Suttill, Bethany
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The Queen of English watering places: representations of Scarborough in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century travel guides
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M.A.
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2011
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Suttle, Olivia
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Defining Criminality: A Study of late – Victorian Leicester
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M.A.
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2001
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Teixeira, Manuel C.
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The Development of Nineteenth Century Working – Class Housing – The «Ilhas» in Oporto, Portugal
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Ph.D
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1988
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Tóth Árpád
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Urbanisation in Pécs in the Early Mid – Nineteenth Century: An Urban Renaissance?
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M.A.
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1996
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Townsend, Claire
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Migration and the growth of Leicester 1700 - 1840
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M.A.
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2002
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Van Houtven, Stephanie
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Contested terrains and negotiated relations: Spatial change and social structure in a late nineteenth century Leicester neighbourhood. The Wyggeston Ward, 1871 – 1901
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M.A.
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2006
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Virk, Ranjit
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The Changing Use of Street Names in Coventry and Leicester 1610 – 1890
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M.A.
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1998
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Vörös, Andrea
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The Transformation of the Economic Structures and the Persistence of Firms in Leicester 1850 – 1900
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M.A.
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1998
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Waldon, Katherine Amy
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An Analysis of Visual Representations of English Spa and Seaside Resort Towns 1760 to 1840
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M.A.
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2013
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Warmerdam, Gemma
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Lelystad and the Forgotten Master Plan of Cornelis van Eesteren
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M.A.
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Warrington, Rebecca
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The Changing Perceptions of the Town of Northampton and the City of Winchester between 1780 and 1850
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M.A.
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2013
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Watkins, James
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An Investigation into Town Planning solutions to the “housing crisis” in Birmingham at the beginning of the twentieth century, as articulated by John Nettlefold and demonstrated In the Harborne Tenants Limited scheme.
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M.A.
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1992
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Webb, Elizabeth
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‘May the Lord Make Us Truly Thankful’ A Comparative Study of the Feeding of Necessitous School Children within the borough of Leicester and Leicestershire 1870 – 1914
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M.A.
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1997
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White, Peter
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Federation of Stoke-on-Trent
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M.A.
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2009
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Williams, Christopher Andrew
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1842: The Dynamic of Urban Disorder. Using a Model of Disorder to Examine Leicester in 1842
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M.A.
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1992
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Willis, T.J.
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Aspects of Working Class Formation: Sheffield, Class, and Space 1840 – 1940
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M.A.
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1994
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Wood, Neil
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Landlords and Occupiers: Class and Ownership in North Leicester 1878 – 1914
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M.A.
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1993
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