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History in the School of HAPP and adjacent historians at Queen's University Belfast. Find the QUB Historians and projects under ‘Lists’. We are at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/
Looking forward to another great @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar on Friday with @myishaseatmon.bsky.social. Drinks and snacks provided as usual. More information about the seminar and the sign-up to attend online is in the link below. All welcome!
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...
Thanks to Áine Toner of the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk for speaking with me about the Alpenpost!
Just in time for your morning coffee, my radio doc "The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin" is now available wherever you get your podcasts.
I would love if you gave it a listen 🙏
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"Wilson’s conciliatory approach is mirrored by Starmer’s attempts to carve a third way over the first year of Trump’s government."–Dr Benjamin Quail @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social on the current UK-US government leadership relationship.
👉 theconversation.com/what-keir-st...
In this 2021 blog, Heritage Consultant Rachel Howse Binnington explains how to sort through family papers you may have found in a clear-out, how best to take care of them and where to find help.
Read it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/what-to...
#FamilyArchives #SpringCleaning #Archives
Happy #InternationalWomensDay Founded to investigate science, literature and antiquities, @ria.ie encouraged debate between scholars of diverse background & interests so long as they were male. Our blog, 'Skirting the issue', looks at the first women of the Academy www.dib.ie/blog/skirtin...
We are excited for the Society's Distinguished Lecture, which will be delivered tomorrow by Prof. Tyler Abinder.
There is still time to register here: www.eshsi.org
EHRI-UK Seminar: Holocaust-related and Jewish refugee collections at Queen’s University Belfast Special Collections & Archives - 23 April, 13.00-15.30, McClay Library, QUB
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-se...
Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @sophienoble.bsky.social! Drinks and snacks provided. All welcome! More information about the seminar and the sign up to attend online in the link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...
Our next USIHS seminar will be on Thursday 5th March (next week!) when we'll welcome Antonia Hart to speak on Ulster Women in Business & Bankruptcy, 1888-1922. All welcome!
www.eventbrite.ie/e/usihs-ulst...
Archive at 25.
As we celebrate a quarter of a century of collecting Northern Irish and Ulster's moving image heritage, we launch this year long series featuring some of our favourite collaborators.
First up, Phil Kieran - DJ, musician, filmmaker.
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I love the cover image for this special issue (which I may have had a hand in choosing). It shows 11 survivors of Peterloo assembled at Failsworth near Oldham in 1884 in support of parliamentary reform, and speaks to many of the themes contained in the special issue.
Thanks to all who supported the 'Plantation of Ulster' conference at PRONI on 12 February, associated with the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project. Recordings of the talks are now available at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
The History Seminar Series is happy to host Mál Farrell (Queen's University Belfast) on 27th February in Room 01.003, 27 University Square at 4:00pm. This is an alteration from our originally advertised paper which has sadly had to be cancelled.
UHC officers, Old Inn manager and Mayor of ND&A join PG in unveiling the blue plaque
The William Sharman Crawford plaque
The Old Inn at Crawfordsburn
Many thanks to the Ulster History Circle, North Down & Ards Council, and the Old Inn Crawfordsburn for making all fans of William Sharman Crawford happy today
With thanks to her supervisors Prof Sean O'Connell and Prof Diane Urquhart, and thanks to her examiners Dr Jackie Clarke (University of Glasgow, Left) and Prof Olwen Purdue (Right).
Congrats to Dr Shonagh Joice who today defended her excellent PhD dissertation on 'Resilience, Adaptability and Anxiety: Women’s experiences of shipbuilding deindustrialisation in Glasgow and Belfast, 1970-2000'.
Coming up tomorrow! Excited to see where the conversation takes us
On Sun 8 March BBC Radio 4 will broadcast The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin - a documentary based on my research!
It traces how I uncovered the lost archive of an anti-Nazi resistance organiser in a wind-rattled villa on the Galician coast.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/
ESSHC 2027 will be in Lyon
If you missed Robin Usher’s talk on Sir Arthur Chichester and Dublin’s architecture c.1605-15, a recording is available at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5nX...
Really looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @mauricejcasey.com! A great title and no doubt a great paper on anti-fascist vegetarians - one not to miss! Snacks and drinks provided. All welcome - in person and online! More information:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...
@tcddublin.bsky.social ??? :)
@womenslibrary.bsky.social ??? :)
@qubhistory.bsky.social ??? :)
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A reminder that our first seminar of 2026 is on Thursday! Neil Murphy @northumbriauni.bsky.social will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'. If you can't join us in person @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social join online 👇
www.eventbrite.ie/e/violence-c...
Road bowling scene in West Cork, featuring Denis O'Donovan bowling while surrounded by a large crowd, in June 1954.
In the current issue of History Ireland, Fintan Lane examines the origins of Irish road bowling and its place in the social history of working communities.
www.historyireland.com
Fellowship Opportunity!
Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...
Dr Robin Usher, RJ Hunter Digital Fellow at QUB, explaining how 17th century life stories can be traced through the 'People of the Ulster Plantation' database.
Prof Mary O'Dowd (RIA/QUB) chairs a panel with Dr William Roulston (UHF), Prof Tom O'Connor (Maynooth) and Dr Robin Usher (QUB) at the 'Plantation of Ulster' conference.
Great conference on The Ulster Plantation today at PRONI, showcasing the relaunched 'People of the Ulster Plantation' online database, produced through a research collaboration of @ria.ie, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @maynoothuniversity.ie. Access is via ulster-settlers.maynoothuniversity.ie
