ProfLaura Ugolini

PhD supervision - in progress:

Director of Studies: Linda Hutton, ‘Commemoration and Remembrance in Barnsley 1915–1939’

p/t PhD

Start date: May 2020.

Director of Studies: Chris Barnes, ‘Churchill at the Ministry of Munitions, 1917 – 1919’

p/t PhD.

Start date: December 2021.

Director of Studies: Angela Blair,

‘Dressed for Protest: The Influence of Fashion in the Women’s Social and Political Union (1904-1914)’

f/t PhD.

Start date: October 2024

Second supervisor: Nicola Edwards

f/t PhD

Start date: January 2024.

Second supervisor: Annabel Polles

f/t PhD

Start date: May 2025

Second supervisor: Amanda Weston

p/t PhD

Start date: October 2025

Second supervisor: Juliet Widdowson

p/t PhD

Start date: October 2025

Awarded:

Director of Studies: Judith Faraday

University of Wolverhampton

‘Class and Culture Behind the counter: the emerging role of women managers in the John Lewis Partnership, 1920-1950’.

MPhil.

Awarded May 2009

Director of Studies: Alison Toplis

University of Wolverhampton

 ‘The non-elite consumer and “wearing apparel” in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, 1800-1850’.

PhD.

Awarded November 2008

Director of Studies: Jenny Evans

University of Wolverhampton

(AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with Walsall Museum)

‘Everyday Dress as Museum Pieces: A Study of the Hodson Shop Collection, Walsall Museum’.

f/t PhD

Awarded December 2016.

Director of Studies: Katrina Maitland-Brown

(University of Woverhampton bursaried student)

‘Fulfilling roles: Midland Women, developing roles and identities c.1760-1860’

f/t PhD

Awarded June 2019.

Director of Studies: Rebecca Ball

(University of Wolverhampton fees-only bursaried student)

‘How far the world has progressed in my time’: Continuity and change in the life and family experiences of fifty working-class individuals in England between 1900 and 1945

p/t PhD

Awarded: February 2021.

Second Supervisor: Simon Gregor

‘The development of British First World War remembrance on the battlefield from 1914 to 1929’

p/t PhD

Awarded: May 2021.

Director of Studies: Caroline Henderson

‘Manpower and Military Conscription in Acton, 1916-1918’

f/t PhD

Awarded: January 2022.

Director of Studies: Nick Gray

'Consumer credit in the clothing and textile retail trade: A study of two English provincial retailers, 1878-1914'.

p/t PhD

Awarded: March 2025.

Third supervisor: Kanishka Silva, ‘Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network-based Authorship Attribution in Historical Texts’

f/t PhD (collaboration with Digital Humanities Lab)

Start date: December 2021.

Awarded: May 2025

Taught modules include:

·       Witnesses to History: Archives and Oral History. First-year u/g module.

·       Campaigning and Citizenship: Women’s Activism, 1790s-1970s. Second-year u/g module.

·       The Great War. Second-year u/g module.

·       Family, Sex and Society. Second-year u/g module. Third-year u/g module

·       Popular Consumerism in Britain, c.1900-1939. P/g module, MA History