Telecommunications and the Second World War -- AHRC Colllaborative PhD Studentship
AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD Studentship School of Geography, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. The Strategic and tactical role of Cable and Wireless during the Second World War Following the award of an extended programme of AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentships, the University of Exeter, in partnership with Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified applicant for a doctoral studentship for three years commencing on 1 October 2010. The overall theme of the extended programme is “Themes in the Historical Geography of Communication: the Eastern Telegraph Company to Cable and Wireless, 1869-1945”. Of the three PhD projects identified under this broad theme, one started in October 2008 (Visual Culture and the Making of Corporate Identity) and another started in October 2009 (Entwined business and imperial histories) and the remaining project will commence in October 2010. The principal supervisor will be P...