History: Recent submissions
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The Irish Drought Impacts Database (IDID): A 287-Year Database of Drought Impacts derived from Newspaper Archives
(2024)Understanding of past droughts has been mostly shaped by meteorological data, with relatively less known about the human aspects of droughts, their socio-economic impacts, as well as choices people make in response to ... -
Challenges in Detecting Volcanic Forcing in Climate and Societal Proxies: Insights from the 1170/1171 CE Eruption
(2025)While our current understanding of the impacts of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere and climate has significantly advanced, uncertainties persist regarding the climate and societal response to major volcanic events ... -
Jet Stream Driven European Climate Extremes and Agricultural Productivity over the Past 700 Years
(2024)The jet stream is an important dynamic driver of climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes1–3 . Modern variability in the position of summer jet stream latitude in the North Atlantic–European sector ... -
A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE
(2024)The North Sea region boasted one of the world’s most important fisheries for many centuries. Climate directly and indirectly influences the development and survival of many important pelagic fish in the North Sea ecosystem. ... -
CHINACHILD Voices of enslaved Chinese girls 1912-1949
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Recreating a unique early modern beer
(2022)Beer was an important source of nutrition in the past. To study its importance in diet, the nutritional input of beer in early modern Ireland (c1550 – c1650) was examined. Archival records in Dublin Castle facilitated ... -
Environment as a Weapon: Geographies, Histories, Literature
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Taking Play Seriously: Children's Education and Nation-building in Modern China, 1897-1937
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, School of Histories and Humanities, 2025)China’s experience of foreign encroachment in the second half of the nineteenth century was what John Fitzgerald calls a wave of awakening among the intelligentsia. It was in this context that educational reform became ... -
More than a man's part, Sir Charles Alexander Cameron : public analyst and medical officer of health for Dublin, 1862-1921
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)Sir Charles Alexander Cameron became Public Analyst for Dublin in 1862, and Medical Officer of Health for Dublin in 1874; he held both posts concurrently until his death in 1921 at the age of ninety. This thesis examines ... -
Indo-Irish nationalist interactions and the British Empire, 1880 - 1922
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)The primary aim of this thesis is to explore the interaction between the Irish and Indian advanced nationalist movements from 1880 until the establishment of Irish independence in 1922. The study delineates the complex web ... -
Old liberals, new politics : the Americans for Democratic Action and the transformation of American liberalism, 1947 - 1976
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The Dublin University Mission - Irish medical missionaries in Britain's empire in India, 1891 - 1929 : identity, impact and sustainability
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis traces the evolution of the Dublin University Mission (DUM)from initial foundation as a graduate brotherhood mission in Victorian Dublin, to one which established a sustainable female healthcare programme in ... -
French Anglicans : a clerical network in England and Ireland c.1640 - c.1685
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis reconstructs and analyses the lives of a number of men who left France for England and Ireland over the seventeenth century and became clergymen in the Church of England and Church of Ireland. Such clergymen ... -
The practical and theoretical application of three-dimensional imaging to the analysis of skeletal trauma
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This research examined current trauma analysis protocols for archaeological and historical skeletal collections and aimed to develop a more transparent, reliable, and objective assessment protocol for analysing the timing ... -
Speculators in conflict : the Adventurers and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1642 - 1660
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This study reveals how the actions of an extraordinary group of skilled and innovative individuals, less than twenty in number, developed and maintained a stable system of state finance in highly challenging times. They ... -
The depiction of Muslims in contemporary Latin narratives of the First Crusade
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)Although they undoubtedly drew on knowledge that existed in Western Europe, the authors of histories the First Crusade lacked an authoritative source on Islam. As such, in trying to give more complete depictions of Muslims, ... -
Bishop and chapter : the organisation of Irish medieval cathedrals, c.1111 - 1378
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis explores the organisation of Irish cathedral chapters and places them within the wider European context of medieval cathedral studies. As the seat of the bishop, cathedrals were the focal point in every diocese ... -
Power and patronage across the Plantagenet dominions: the making and breaking of the Marshal assemblage, 1189-1245
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis offers an original analysis of a transnational lordship which spanned thirteenth-century Britain, France, and Ireland. The focus of this study is the Marshal family, who were earls of Pembroke and lords of ... -
Reimagining the Dutch Borderlands: State Formation in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1713-1763.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)Attaching workable definitions to modern statehood and exploring the manners in which modern states developed have been key areas of debate within the historiography of the early modern period. While the discussion has ... -
Gender, Power and the Politics of Access in the Fourteenth Century
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The central thesis of this study is the analytical interrogation of the relationship between gender, power and the politics of access in the fourteenth century. It concludes that, though there were undeniably gendered ...
