Centre for First World War Studies

[Borden Battery]

Here is a listing of Great War theses [MA and PhD] which may be of interest to a wide range of researchers. This material was collected by Dr J.M. Bourne. At this time I am not sure what material is in digital form, nor do I know if Dr. Bourne has this material in his possession.

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University of Birmingham - Centre for First World War Studies - Bibliography

Please notify additions or corrections to Dr J.M. Bourne, Director of the Centre for First World War Studies: J.M.Bourne@bham.ac.uk

Unpublished Theses

Abbatiello, John ‘“Props” and Periscopes: British Naval Aviation and the Anti-submarine Campaign, 1917-18’, PhD, London University, 2004

Adelson, R.D. ‘The Formation of British Policy Towards the Middle East, 1914-1918’, PhD, Washington University, 1972

Aldridge, Ross ‘The Impact of the Great War on Intellectuals, 1914-21’, PhD, Reading University, 2003

Allen, Ronald Michael ‘Borden, Britain and the Navy, 1909-1914’, MA, Calgary University, 1971

Allison, M.J. ‘The National Service Issue, 1900-1914’, PhD, London University, 1975

Anderson, Ross ‘World War I in East Africa, 1916-1918’, PhD, Glasgow University, 2001

Arnold, Anthony J. ‘Profit Controls and Levies in the First World War’, PhD, London University, 1995

Badsey, S.D. ‘Fire and Sword: The British Army and the Arme Blanche Controversy, 1871-1921’, PhD, Cambridge University, 1982

Baer, Alexander ‘The Anglo-German Antagonism and Trade with Holland, with Special Reference to Foodstuffs, During the First World War’, PhD,Cambridge University, 1997

Barlow, Robin ‘Some Aspects of the Experience of Carmarthenshire in the Great War’, PhD, Wales, 2001

Bart, N.J.A. ‘Service not Self - the British Legion 1921-1939’,

PhD, St Andrews, 1994

Berry, Nicholas J. ‘“Flawed in France, Flawless in Palestine”: Is the Traditional View of Sir Edmund Allenby’s Military Career in the First World War in Need of Revision?’, MPhil, London, 1999

Bet-El, I.R. ‘Experience into Identity: the Writings of British Conscript Soldiers, 1916-1918’, PhD, London University, 1991

Bettinson, Helen M. ‘Lost Souls in the House of Restoration? British Ex-servicemen and War Disability Pensions, 1914-30’, PhD, University of East Anglia, 2002

Bezeau, M.V. ‘The Role and Organization of Canadian Military Staffs 1904-1945’, MA, RMC Kingston, Ontario, 1978

Black, Jonathan A.A. ‘C.R. Nevinson as Painter, Printmaker, War Artist and Leader in the “Call to Order” Trend, 1910-20’, PhD, London University, 2003

Blades, Geoffrey D. ‘The Battles of the Lys: The British Army on the Defensive in April 1918’, MPhil, London University, 1999

Blanch, M.D., ‘Nation, Empire and the Birmingham Working Class, 1899-1914’, PhD, Birmingham University, 1975

Bowman, Tim ‘The Discipline and Morale of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914-18, with Particular Reference to the Irish Regiments’, PhD, Luton University, 1999

Brader, Chris ‘Timbertown Girls: Gretna Munitions Workers, 1915-18’, PhD, Warwick University, 2001

Bray, Robert Matthew ‘The Canadian Patriotic Response to the Great War’, PhD, York University, 1977

Bridgewater, R.D. ‘The Great War Letters of Humphrey Francis Humphreys: A Critical Edition’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2003

Brown, Alison M. ‘British Churches in the First World War’, PhD, St Andrews University, 1996

Brown, Ian M. ‘Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie and the Canadian Corps 1917-1918: The Evolution of a Style of Command and Attack’, MA, University of Calgary, 1991

Brown, Ian M. ‘The Evolution of the Administrative Infrastructure of the British Expeditionary Force, 1910-19’, PhD, London University, 1996

Burk, Kathleen M. ‘British War Missions to the United States, 1914-1918’,

DPhil, Oxford University, 1976

Campbell, D. ‘The Divisional Experience in the CEF: A Social and Operational History of the 2nd Canadian Division, 1915-1918’ PhD, University of Calgary, 2003

Carter, Matthew ‘The Struggle for Reconstruction: Coalition and the Labour Movement, 1916-24’, PhD, University of East Anglia, 1996

Cecil, H.P. ‘The Development of Lord Robert Cecil's Views on the Securing of a Lasting Peace, 1915-1919’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1971

Childs, David J. ‘British Tanks 1915-18. Manufacture and Employment’, PhD, Glasgow University, 1996

Coetzee, Daniel de Villiers ‘Factors Accounting for Variations in Voluntary Enlistment in Scotland, August 1914 to December 1915’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2004

Collins, Laurence J. ‘The Function of Theatre Entertainment in the First World War, 1914-18’, PhD, London University, 1994

Cook, Mark ‘Evaluating the Learning Curve: The 38th (Welsh) Division on the Western Front, 1916-1918’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 2006

Cook, Timothy R.B. ‘No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare In the First World War’, MA, RMC Kingston, Ontario, 1996

Cullen, Stephen M. ‘Gender and the Great War: British Combatants, Masculinity and Perceptions of Women, 1918-39’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1999

Dawson, D.W. ‘British Defence Strategy 1906-1914’, MA, Manchester University, 1966

De Groot, Gerard J. ‘The Pre-War Life and Military Career of Douglas Haig’, PhD, Edinburgh University, 1983

Dendy, Scott ‘Morale during and after the fall of Kut-al-Amara’, MA, Leeds University, 1998

Dennant, Lynda ‘Women at the Front: Gender Conflicts during the First World War’, PhD, Warwick University, 1998

D’Ombrain, Nicholas J. ‘The Evolution of British Defence Strategy 1904-1914: A Study of Supreme Command in an Age of Transition’, MA, McGill University, 1965

Dyster, P.A. ‘In the Wake of the Tank: The 20th Century Evolution of the Theory of Armored Warfare’, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1984

Elsey, Ena ‘The Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled Ex-servicemen after Two World Wars’, PhD, Teesside University, 1995

Eyre, Kenneth Charles ‘Staff and Command in the Canadian Corps: The Canadian Militia 1896-1914 as a Source of Senior Officers’, MA, Duke University, 1967

Fewster, Kevin J. ‘Expression and Suppression: Aspects of Military Censorship in Australia during the Great War’, PhD, University of New South Wales, 1980

Finlay, Katherine L. ‘British Catholic Identity during the First World War: The Challenge of Universality and Particularity’, DPhil Oxford University, 2004

Fontenot, G. ‘The Modern Major-General: Patterns in the Careers of the British Army Major-Generals on active duty at the time of the Sarajevo Assassination’, MA, Chapel Hill, 1980

Freda, Dominic ‘Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the 1914-18 War in England and Wales’, MLitt, Bristol University, 1999

French, David W. ‘Some Aspects of Social and Economic Planning for War in Great Britain, c.1905-15’, PhD, London University, 1978

Gaffney, Angela D. ‘“Poppies on the Up Platform”: Commemoration of the Great War in Wales’, PhD, Cardiff University, 1996

Gagen, Wendy ‘Experience of Disabled Men in the First World War’, PhD, Essex, 2004

Gassert, I.L. ‘Collaborators and Dissidents: Aspects of British Literary Publishing in the First World War, 1914-19’, DPhil, Oxford University, 2002

Gooch, John ‘The Origins and Development of the British and Imperial General Staff to 1914’, PhD, London University, 1969

Goold, J.D. ‘Old Diplomacy: The Diplomatic Career of Lord Hardinge, 1910-1922’, PhD, Cambridge University, 1976

Gower, S.J.L. ‘Wolverhampton during the Great War’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2000

Green, Andrew, ‘Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories 1915-1948’, PhD, Leeds University, ????

Grieves, Keith R. ‘The British Government’s Political and Administrative

Response to the Man-power Problem in the First World War’, PhD, Manchester University, 1984

Gustavson, Wesley C. ‘Missing the Boat? Colonel A.F. Duguid and the Canadian Official History of World War I’, MA, University of Calgary, 1999

Halvorsen, Peter ‘The Development of Mines and Mine Warfare in the Fisher Era, 1900-14’, MPhil, Oxford University, 2000

Hammond, C.B. [bryn] ‘The Theory and Practice of Tank Co-operation with Other Arms on the Western Front during the First World War’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2006

Harding, Albert W. ‘War and Social Change: A Study of a Scottish Burgh, 1910-22’, MPhil, Open University, 1995

Harris, Stephen John ‘Canadian Brass: The Growth of the Canadian Military The Growth of the Canadian Military Profession, 1860-1919’, PhD, Duke University, 1979

Haycock, Ron G. ‘Sir Sam Hughes: His Public Career, 1862-1916’, PhD, University of Western Ontario, 1976

Herrick, Claire ‘Of War Wounds: The Propaganda, Politics and Experience of Medicine in World War I on the Western Front’, PhD, Manchester, 1996

Hewetson, Jane Elisabeth ‘Unofficial records: A Study of Diaries with Special A Study of Diaries with Special Reference to those kept by Soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War’, MPhil, Loughborough University of Technology, 1983

Hewitt, Margaret ‘Efficiency not Despondency: The Social Rehabilitation of World War I Veterans in East Anglia, with Special Reference to Norfolk’, MPhil, University of East Anglia, 2004

Hiley, Nicholas P. ‘Making War: The British News Media and Government Control, 1914-1916’, PhD, Open University, 1985

Hopkins, John ‘The Role of Military Hospitals, 1914-18’, Ph.D, Leicester University, 2003

Hughes, A.C. ‘The Capture of Mametz Wood: A Study of Lloyd George’s “Welsh Army” at the Battle of the Somme 1916’, MPhil, London University, 1975

Hughes, Christopher ‘Army Recruitment in Gwynedd, 1914-1916’, MA, University of Wales, 1983

Hughes, Matthew D. ‘General Allenby and the campaign of the EEF in Palestine, 1917-18’, PhD, London University, 1995

Hughes, S. Gavin M. ‘Northern Irish Regiments in the Great War: Culture, Mythology, Politics and National Identity’, PhD, University of Wales, 1999

Hyatt, A. ‘The Military Career of Sir Arthur Currie’, PhD, Duke University, 1964

James, Ingrid H. ‘Some Aspects of the Provision for War Widows in Britain, 1914-21’, MLitt, Cambridge University, 1995

Jamet, Catherine J.M.-O. ‘Commemorating the Lost Generation: The First World War Memorials in Cambridge, Oxford and Some English Public Schools’, MLitt, Cambridge University, 1995

Jenkins, D. ‘Winning Trench Warfare: Battlefield Intelligence in the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918’, PhD, Carleton University, 1999

Johnson, N.P.A.S. ‘Aspects of the Historical Geography of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Britain’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2001

Jones, Michael ‘The London Regiment, 1908-18’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 1999

Jordan, David J. ‘The Army Co-Operation Role of the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front during the Great War’, PhD, Birmingham University, 1997

Joy, Caroline ‘War and Unemployment in an Industrial Community: Barrow-in-Furness, 1914-26’, PhD, University of Central Lancashire, 2004

Kierstead, Robin Glen ‘The Canadian Military Medical Experience during

the Great War, 1914-1918’, MA, Queen's University [Kingston, Ontario], 1982

Kilian, Crawford ‘The Great War and the Canadian Novel, 1915-1926’, MA, Simon Fraser University, 1972

Kozak, M. ‘Women Munition Workers During the First World War with Special Reference to Engineering’, PhD, Hull University, 1977

Latcham, Andrew P. ‘Journey’s End: Ex-servicemen and the State during and after the Great War’, D Phil, Oxford University, 1997

Leese, P.J. ‘A Social and Cultural History of Shellshock, with Particular Reference to Experience of British Soldiers during and after the Great War’, PhD, Open University, 1989

Leppard, Thomas Philip ‘Richard Turner and the Battle of St Eloi’, MA, Calgary, 1994

Lloyd, Nicholas A. ‘The British Expeditionary Force and the Battle of Loos’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2005

Lobell, Brian J. ‘War, Reconstruction and the Fisher Act of 1918’, M Litt, Cambridge University, 1995

Lomas, Janis ‘War Widows in British Society, 1914-90’, PhD, Staffordshire University, 1997

Losinger, Isabella Diane ‘Officer-Man Relations in the Canadian Expeditionary

Force, 1914-1919’, MA, Carleton University, 1990

Luethje, M.M.M. ‘The Politics of Monetary Policy in Britain from the First World War to the World Economic Conference of 1933’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2003

Macdonald, John A. ‘In Search of Veritable: Training the Canadian Staff Officer, 1899 to 1945’, MA, RMC Kingston, Ontario, 1992

MacKenzie, S.P. ‘Politics and Morale: Current Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Armed Forces, 1917-1949’, PhD, Oxford University, 1989

Macleod, Jennifer R. ‘General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Re-writing of the History of the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915-30, MPhil, Cambridge University, 1996

MacLeod, Jennifer R. ‘The Gallipoli Campaign as Assessed by Some British and Australian Participants, 1915-39’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2000

Marble, W. Sanders ‘“The infantry cannot do with a gun less”: The Place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918’, PhD, London University, 2001

McCartney, Helen B. ‘The 1/6th and 1/10th Battalions of the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment in the Period of the First World War’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2001

McCulloch, I.M. ‘The ‘Fighting Seventh’: The Evolution and Devolution of Tactical Command and Control in a Canadian Infantry Brigade of the Great War’, MA, Royal Military College of Canada, 1997

Maroney, Paul J. ‘Recruiting the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Ontario, 1914-1917’, MA, Queen's University [Kingston, Ontario], 1991

Martin, J.F. ‘The Government and the Control of the British Coal Industry 1914-18’, MPhil, Loughborough University, 1981

Millar, John Dermot ‘A Study in the Limitations of Command: General Sir William Birdwood and the AIF, 1914-1918’, PhD, University of New South Wales, 1993

Millman, Margaret F. ‘In the Shadow of War: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Construction of the Masculine Identities of British Soldiers, 1914-24’, PhD, Greenwich University, 2003

Mitchell, Antony C. ‘The Unionist Press and the Politics of the Great War’, DPhil, York University, 1999

Mitchinson, K. William ‘Auxiliary Forces for the Land Defence of Great Britain, 1909-19’, PhD, Luton University, 2002

Moon, Howard R. ‘The Invasion of the United Kingdom: Public Controversy and Official Planning 1888-1918’, PhD, London University, 1968

Moore-Bick, C.J. ‘“Loss of Innocence”: The Emotional Transition from Civilian to Soldier in the First World War’, MPhil, Cambridge University, 2002

Morris, Patricia M. ‘Leeds and the Amateur Military Tradition: the Leeds Rifles and its Antecedents, 1815-1918’, PhD, Leeds University, 1983

Mowbray, James Arthur ‘Militiaman: A Comparative Study of the Evolution of

Organization in the Canadian and British Volunteer Citizen Military Forces, 1896-1939’, PhD, Duke

University, 1975

Muenger, Elizabeth ‘The British Army in Ireland, 1886-1914’

PhD, University of Michigan, 1981

Mythen, John ‘The Revolution in British Battle Tactics, July 1916-June 1917: The Spring and Summer Offensives during 1917’, MPhil, Cambridge University, 2000

Newell, J. ‘British Military Policy in Egypt and Palestine, August 1914 to June 1917’, PhD, London University, 1990

Nielsen, Robert F. ‘A Barely Perceptible Limp: The First World War in Canadian Fiction (1914-1919)’, MA, Guelph University, 1971

Novick, Benjamin Z. ‘Ireland’s Revolutionary War? Irish Nationalist Propaganda, the Great War and the Construction of Irish Identity’, DPhil, Oxford University, 2000

Occleshaw, M.E. ‘British Military Intelligence in the First World War'

PhD, Keele University, 1984

Oram, Gerard ‘“What alternative punishment is there”? Military Executions during World War I’, PhD, Open University, 2000

Otley, C.B. ‘The Origins and Recruitment of the British Army Elite, 1870-1959’, PhD, Hull University, 1965

Palazzo, Albert ‘Tradition, Innovation, and the Pursuit of the Decisive

Battle: Poison Gas and the British Army on the Western Front, 1915-1918’, PhD, Ohio State University, 1996

Peaple, Simon P. ‘The 46th (North Midland) Division on the Western Front in the Great War’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2004

Perry, F.W. ‘Manpower and Organisational Problems in the Expansion of the British and Commonwealth Armies during two World Wars’, PhD, London University, 1982

Porter, Patrick H.M. ‘New Jerusalems: Military Chaplains and the Ideal of Redemptive Sacrifice in the Great War’, MPhil, Oxford University, 2003

Pugsley, David ‘The Great War and Methodism: The Assimilation of Dissent?’, M Phil, Birmingham University, 1995

Radley, K. ‘First Canadian Division, C.E.F., 1914-1918: Ducimus (We lead)’, PhD, Carleton University, 2000

Roberts, James ‘“Killer Butterflies”: Infantry Combat Behaviour and Morale in the 19th (Western) Division during the Great War’, PhD, Coventry University, 2004

Samuels, Martin ‘Doctrine and Dogma: A Comparative Analysis of German and British Infantry Tactics in the First World War’, MPhil, Manchester University, 1989

Scales, R.H. Jr ‘Artillery in Small Wars: The Evolution of British Artillery Doctrine, 1860-1914’, PhD, Duke University, 1976

Schneider, Eric F. ‘What Britons were Told about the War in the Trenches, 1914-18’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1998

Schreiber, Shane ‘The Orchestra of Victory: Canadian Corps Operations in the Battles of the Hundred Days 8 August - 11 November 1918’, MA, RMC Kingston, Ontario, 1995

Sellwood, Jane Leslie ‘If We Forget: English Canadian Poetry of the Great War, 1914-1918’, MA, Carleton University, 1981

Sheffield, Gary David ‘The Effect of War Service on the 22nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Kensington) 1914-18, with Special Reference to Morale, Discipline, and the Officer/Man Relationship’, MA, Leeds University, 1984

Simpson, Andrew ‘The Operational Role of British Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914-1918’, PhD, London University College, 2001

Smith, Richard A. ‘Britain and the Strategy of the Economic Weapon in the War against Germany, 1914-19’, PhD, Newcastle University, 2000

Snowden, Kathryn L. ‘British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front, 1914-1918: A Case Study in Tactical Evolution’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 2001

Spiers, Edward M. ‘The Reform of the Front Lines Forces of the Regular Army in the United Kingdom’, PhD, Edinburgh University, 1974

Spillan, G.F. ‘Manpower Problems in the British Army 1918-1939: the Balancing of Resources and Commitments’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1985

Stewart, W. ‘Attack Doctrine in the Canadian Corps, 1916-1918’, MA, University of New Brunswick, 1982

Stryker, L.S. ‘Languages of Sacrifice and Suffering in England in the

First World War’, PhD, Cambridge University, 1992

Stubbs, J.O. ‘The Conservative Party and the Politics of War, 1914-16’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1973

Summerton, N.W. ‘The Development of British Military Planning for a War Against Germany 1904-1914’, PhD, London University, 1970

Thom, Deborah ‘Women Workers in the Woolwich Arsenal in the First World War’, MA Thesis, Warwick University, 1975

Thom, Deborah ‘The Ideology of Women's Work in Britain, 1914-1924, with Specific Reference to the NFWW and Other Trade Unions’, PhD, CNAA - Thames Polytechnic, 1982

Thomis, Malcolm I. ‘The Labour Movement in Great Britain and Compulsory Military Service, 1914-16’, MA, London University, 1959

Thornton, Andrew ‘The Territorial Force in Staffordshire, 1908-1915’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 2004

Vorce, Anne L. ‘The Role of Ireland in British Defence Planning,

1908-1914’, MA, London University, 1975

Wahlert, G. ‘Provost: Friend or Foe?: The Development of an Australian Provost Service 1914-1945’, MA, University of New South Wales, 1996

Watts, Martin ‘A Military, Political and Social History of the Jewish Legion’, PhD, Open University, 2003

Williams, G.K. ‘Statistics and Strategic Bombardment: Operations and Records of the British Long-Range Bombing Force During World War I and Their Implications for the Development of the Post-War Royal Air Force, 1917-1923’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1987

Williams, Robert D. ‘The 1/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 2000

Wilson, James Brent ‘Morale and Discipline in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918’, MA, University of New Brunswick, 1978

Winton, Graham R. ‘Horsing the British Army, 1878-1923’, PhD, Birmingham University, 1997

Wrigley, Christopher J. ‘Lloyd George and the Labour Movement (With Particular Reference to the Years 1914-1922’, PhD, London University, 1973

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