History at Queen's University Belfast
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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/
The History Seminar Series continues this Friday, 2 October, with Becca Mowbray (QUB) delivering her paper ‘Schools at the Crossroads: secondary education for girls in Northern Ireland, 1965-1972’ For more information, and to register for this event, please follow ow.ly/ZNKO50ZPIeM
This week we opened the latest call for the Society's next round of research funding. For Postgraduate students, studying for a PhD; Early Career Historians, within 5 yrs of completing a doctorate; and historians of Scotland: bit.ly/4ywZi0S Grants of £500-£2500 to pursue research #Skystorians
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: December 2026 deadlines - RHS
The Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates from 4 December 2026. Postgraduate Research Support Grants, 2026-...
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Gosh, this is a fascinating and worthwhile read (though see the De Gaulle film first because of spoilers.
Joanna Nicolson@joannanicolson.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is a fascinating read by the author of the book on which the film is based engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-b...
'Why Does Academic History Matter?' bit.ly/4yB8MYQ With contributions from historians Martha Vandrei, Susan-Mary Grant, Joy Porter and @davidandress.bsky.social Free to read for 7 days @historytoday.com #Skystorians
Why Does Academic History Matter?
The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?
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#OpenAccess research article highlight! 'A policy of national emasculation'? The gendered debate over Irish neutrality in the Second World War, by Timothy Ellis-Dale, is available through the following link: @universitypress.cambridge.org
‘A policy of national emasculation’? The gendered debate over Irish neutrality in the Second World War | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘A policy of national emasculation’? The gendered debate over Irish neutrality in the Second World War
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CFP: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland - Annual Conference 2026 (4-5 Dec. at TCD). Paper proposals should be sent to Dr Anne Dolan adolan@tcd.ie by 23 October.
Professor Andrew Holmes @qubhistory.bsky.social kicks us off with a brilliant paper on the Presbyterian leaders of 1798
Today at 5pm: The Annual Keith Jeffery Lecture, given by Prof Tom Bartlett
Prof Olwen Purdue will be presiding this week at the 8th International Federation for Public History conference, in Lisbon. in2past.org/wp-content/u...
Congrats to @drkkwilliams.bsky.social on receiving a Jenty Nelson teaching award
Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3w agoEach summer the Society hosts a number of funding calls to support historians. Today, we're pleased to announce the 30 recipients of these recent programmes bit.ly/4yoVYor Funding offers support for MA & PhD students, as well as early and later career historians, in and beyond HE #Skystorians 1/2
Very pleased @royalhistsoc.org will be there at this annual introduction to @ihr.bsky.social and the many supports and community it offers to those beginning a PhD in #History #Skystorians
Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 4w agoAre you starting a PhD this academic year in history &/or a history-related discipline? If so, join us on 7 Oct for this fantastic Workshop for New Research Students. Learn more about the range of resources we offer to help you in your research journey. @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social shorturl.at/ymJpr
Very excited to announce the @qubhistory.bsky.social seminars for the upcoming semester. Join us each Friday to hear about the great research being done at Queen’s & elsewhere. Online attendance by request via the email below. For updates on the seminars, sign up to mailing list: shorturl.at/igu1r
Thanks to Queen's University Belfast History Professor Fearghal McGarry for his thoughtful reflections on our Look Back to Look Forward exhibition. If you missed the exhibition in Belfast, you can access our online version here: https://bit.ly/HeritageExhibition
Andrew Holmes speaking at UTC on Friday about Irish Presbyterians in the 1920s
Important new piece in @mbhjournal.bsky.social by my colleague @jcrangle.bsky.social on the experiences of Black and mixed race Irish immigrants in Britain 👇 academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
‘I felt like I just belonged’: urban multiculture and black Irish migrants in post-war Britain
Abstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population,
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In 1786 Mary Wollstonecraft came to Ireland as governess to the daughters of Lord and Lady Kingsborough at Mitchelstown Castle. Her experiences helped shape the ideas on class, education and gender later expressed in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. historyireland.com/from-the-edu...
From the Education of daughters to the Rights of woman: Mary Wollstonecraft in Ireland, 1786–7 - History Ireland
WOLLSTONECRAFT’S EXPERIENCES IN IRELAND HELPED INFORM HER RADICAL CLASS AND GENDER ANALYSES By Jenny McAuley In October 1786, the 27-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft travelled to Ireland to take up a new ...
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Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood?
Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood?
Paul Greengrass drama The Uprising was supposed to be a historical epic about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 – but a strange new campaign has inserted a surprising figure
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These are the pictures I wanted to use. 1) QCG graduate, Colman Macaulay, leading a delegation to open Tibet to trade with Britain 2) QCB graduate, William Hancock, who served in Hart’s Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service. He’s at the centre in the big hat.
Jay Roszman@jayroszman.bsky.social · last mo.I made it into today’s Irish Times with an essay about the Queen’s Colleges and Empire. Always exciting to see one’s name in print.
New publication by @olwenpurdue.bsky.social
‘God-fearing citizens and Empire builders’: The Emigration of Belfast’s Workhouse Boys to Canada 1903–1917
This article examines the emigration of children from Belfast workhouse in the opening years of the twentieth century. Belfast, a thriving industrial city at the heart of empire and itself a produc...
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This is a brilliant (open access!) article by @mauricejcasey.com; it doesn’t just recover a pioneering yet forgotten lesbian activist but uses her story to critique the blind spots of Irish queer historiography more broadly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980
This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such a...
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'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians
'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS
History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...
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Congrats @ciarab.bsky.social 🎉 Looking forward to reading this
The Historical Journal@historicaljnl.bsky.social · 2mo ago📘From our latest issue! Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
24 August 2026, 5:30-7 pm, on Zoom.
Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 2mo agoAre you considering career options after a PhD in History or a related subject? Join @historylabplus.bsky.social colleagues for this session with a fantastic panel of History PhD graduates who have all taken their skills into a variety of areas beyond HE. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Congratulations Professor Gribben @qubhistory.bsky.social on your election to the prestigious RIA! #LoveQUBstaff
Royal Irish Academy@ria.ie · 3mo agoWelcome to our newly elected member Crawford Gribben, professor of history at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Learn more about Admittance Day 2026 and read the citation for Professor Gribben: www.ria.ie/2026/05/22/2...
Colin Murray@colinmurray.bsky.social · 3mo agoSignificant day as the Truth Recovery Independent Panel issues its report on Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries, and Workhouses in NI. This systemic review, drawing on multiple methods, needs to receive the attention this issue deserves: www.independentpanel.truthrecoveryni.co.uk