Malcolm Dick

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am able to offer supervision in the following areas:

The history of the West Midlands since 1700
The social and cultural history of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
I have successfully supervised several research degrees since 2010. These include:

Close Encounters: The Personal and Social Life of Anna Seward, 1742-1809 (with English), MLitt, 2011
Robert Bage's contribution to social equality (with English), MLitt, 2011
Elizabeth Cadbury, 1858-1951 (AHRC Collaborative PhD with Birmingham Archives and Heritage and the Centre for Quaker Studies), PhD, 2012
Constructing the eighteenth-century woman: the life and education of Sabrina Sidney, PhD, 2013
‘To the Bull Ring!’ Politics Protest and Policing in Birmingham during the early Chartist period, MRes, 2014
Samuel Johnson: a promoter of useful knowledge and social improvement, PhD, 2014
I am also supervising several research theses at the present time

The cultural journey of Anne Yearsley 1753- 1806
The carriage of goods in and out of Birmingham in the eighteenth century
Industrialisation and urbanisation in Broseley, Shropshire
The origins, development and influence of William Shenstone’s landscape design at the Leasowes, Halesowen
Paying the price for industrialisation: the experience of a Black Country town, Oldbury, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Intellectual communities and industry in Shropshire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
The origins, development and influence of William Shenstone’s landscape design at the Leasowes, Halesowen
Urban gardens in the West Midlands manufacturing towns of the eighteenth century
George Edmunds and the making of Birmingham radicalism
Entrepreneurial influence and technological change: the rise and decline of the West Midlands cut-nail trade, c.1811-1914
The development of reformatory and industrial schools in Victorian Birmingham, 1850 to c. 1900
Medical care in the workhouses in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, 1839-1912
The development of a late nineteenth-century Birmingham suburb: Moseley, 1850-1900
Reasons to remember: commemorating the great and the good in late Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham
Birmingham exceptionalism, Joseph Chamberlain and the 1906 general election
Birmingham manufacturing and its workforce during the Second World War
Politics, governance and the shaping of Smethwick since 1945