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Unpublished dissertations

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• Hodgkins, Alexander. ‘Rebellion and Warfare in the Tudor State: Military Organisation, Weaponry, and Field Tactics in Mid-Sixteenth Century England.’ PhD diss., University of Leeds, 2013.
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• Rawlinson, Kent. ‘The English Household Chapel c. 1100 – c.1500: An Institutional Study.’ PhD diss., Durham University, 2008.
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