Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Projects

The Fantastic Imagination from the Front Lines to the Home Front, 1914-45

The Social Impact of Co-curation and Participatory Practices in Large Museums

Visualising India's Wars in South East Asia, 1938-47

‘If it’s printed it’s true’: a critical reassessment of covert ‘black’ propaganda produced by the Political Warfare Executive (PWE)

The Bethlem Royal Hospital During the First World War

Tracing Public Perceptions of Winston Churchill from the First World War to 2020

The influence of contemporary culture on young combatants in West Africa (1989–2003), explored through the archives of ‘trans-media’ journalist Tim Hetherington

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

'After Afghanistan': narratives of Operation Herrick told over time by those who served

Manufacturing reality in the war of narratives: Islamic State photo propaganda, British military influence operations, and public perception

Training the Troops: British and Imperial Armies, 1939-1945

Diversifying and decolonising conflict photography: an exploration of how accompanying textual information can influence the reading and understanding of photographs

Mau Mau’s Unquiet Ghosts: Coercive Reconciliation and local politics in Central Kenya, 1956-1969

Representing and Remembering Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Second World War

‘To dream as I have never dreamed before’: Dreaming and the First World War Literature and Culture.

The cameraman’s experience of the Second World War: a study of the AFPU dope sheets/The Army Film and Photographic Film Unit, 1941-1945.

The Scars of War: Ruin, Memory and Loss in Photographs of World War II London

“Limelight Soldiering?" The Cold War and the experience of British military personnel in Berlin, 1945-1971

Soldiers of stamina and daring: exploring the lives and legacies of Major General David Lloyd-Owen and Major General Orde Wingate

A review of the impact of women’s military or wartime service in the aftermath of the First World War

The Imperial War Museum and British Public Memory of the Second World War

Bring the War Home: Civic Participation, Citizenship Rituals and the Representation of Conflict in Contemporary Art

Voices of the Cold War in 1950s Britain 

The impact of participating in British counterinsurgency campaigns, 1945-1997, on the psyche of British armed forces personnel

Pacifism and protest: anti-war sentiment in IWM collections

Colonial Encounters during the First World War

Noble Frankland and the reinvention of the Imperial War Museum 1960-1982

Advertising War: War Publicity and the First World War.

Interpreting Memories of a Forgotten Army: Prisoner-of-war narratives from the Sumatra Railway, May 1944 - August 1945

Commemoration, Memory and the Process of Display: Negotiating the Imperial War Museum’s First World War Exhibitions, 1964 - 2014.

A Century of Reinvention: Display Policy and Practice at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2017.

Framing War, Sport and Politics: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Moscow Olympics

Establishing Broadcast Monitoring as Open Source Intelligence: The BBC Monitoring Service during the Second World War

‘That Justice be Seen’: the American Prosecution’s Use of Film at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.

Working Space, Production and Visual Culture: Aircraft in Wartime Britain, 1939-45.

'Something yet unpublished’: Anecdotes in the Imperial War Museum’s Archive of the 1964 BBC Series, The Great War.

The Politics of Commemoration and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Encounters in Wartime Italy: British Soldiers and Italian Civilians, 1943-1944

War Stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982

Deconstructing the myth of the British military masculine ideal. Military masculinities in the British Army, 1960-2020

The photographs of families who fell victim to Nazi persecution: building a collection; interrogating its meaning

Horace Nicholls: Artist, Journalist, Propagandist, Opportunist