Joseph Diviney

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

PhD Student (History)

Profile

Thesis title: The 1984-5 Miners’ Strike and the Demise of the British Coal Mining Industry.

Supervisors:

Period:

Post-1800

Thesis abstract:

Research project on industrial relations in the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on the 1984-5 Miners' Strike, based on government documents as the primary source material.

Qualifications
  • PhD History, University of Sheffield, 2018 - present
  • MA Historical Research, University of Sheffield, 2018 - Dr Julie MacDonald Scholarship
  • BA History and Philosophy, University of Sheffield, 2015
Grants

Awards:

  • PhD scholarship: Hossein Farmy Scholarship
Teaching activities

University of Sheffield Teaching Assistant 2020-21 academic year: 

  • HST112 Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
  • HST117 The Making of the Twentieth Century

University of Sheffield Teaching Assistant previous years: 

  • HST119 The Transformation of the United Kingdom, 1800 to the present