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Welfare and patronage in the Victorian Post Office
24 October 2011
The British Postal Museum Archive (BPMA) and The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) are offering two three-year Collaborative Doctoral Awards (or five year part-time) PhD studentships 2011-14 to work on the history of the 19th century Post Office. These build on a unique partnership between the IHR and BPMA which has already supported three PhDs. The two PhDs will be jointly supervised by Professor Miles Taylor (IHR) and Dr Adrian Steel (BPMA). The project will based at the IHR with the major part of the research carried out at the BPMA.
The studentships will commence on 1 January 2012. The value of the award is £15590, with an additional supplementary £500 allowance. University of London tuition fees are fully covered.
Applications for these two awards should be made to the IHR via the Secretary to the Higher Research Degrees Committee, Ms Elaine Walters. The closing date is 14 November 2011.
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