History at Queen's University Belfast

Delighted to be invited by @conorbrockbank.bsky.social and the @qubhistory.bsky.social Seminar Series committee to deliver a paper next Friday!

Topic: The Tory Titanic: Civic Society Opposition to Thatcher's Poll Tax.

4pm, 27 University Square. All welcome sign-up at Eventbrite! #History #QUB

With match funding from Queen’s, we are offering six funded studentships beginning in 2026.

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
AHRC 'Doctoral Landscape' - 6 awards for candidates proposing their own research topics - closing 13 January 2026
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...

We're very excited to announce our collaborative PhD with @qubhistory.bsky.social on the residents of The Salvation Army's Bethel Rescue Home in Belfast in the C19th. Supervised by @elainefarrell.bsky.social (@badbridgetbook.bsky.social)
Applications by 13 Jan 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
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Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Observing the Heavens from the ‘Periphery’: Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830'
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Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
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Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Our Place: Our Stories: History and Placemaking among Belfast's Underserved Communities'
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!

On my way to Belfast this morning to talk about the pharmaceutical industry, bodies, ecosystems, and how we read the history of Ireland's economic transformation since the 1960s. Will include some chat about the smells of 1980s Ireland, as well as what topography tells us about Ireland's economy.

Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory:

Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

A really thrilling day working on an upcoming documentary for BBC Radio 4: the story of a family history of anti-Nazi resistance.

Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!

Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72

Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

USIHS Lecture – Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB): Building to feel ‘at home’ USIHS Seminar. Online only, Thursday 13 November at 7pm. Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora. This paper will explore the var…

A recording of @sophcocooper.bsky.social's recent @usihs.bsky.social talk on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora' is now available at: usihs36.com/2025/11/04/u...

Why History Matters - AHA Why Study History Historical Thinking in Everyday Life The AHA offers resources for educators and students on the importance of studying history, and reflections on why learning about the past helps u...

Natalie Zemon Davis, 1996: “I still find history full of wonders; I still find in the differences in past societies a way to take stock of the present—a source of sober realism, but also a source of hope." Read more about why history matters and the importance of historical thinking in public life.🗃️

A new history of multicultural Britain

I talked to the History Extra pod about the ideas behind MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN and how they relate to today’s grim politics

Listen on Spotify oR wHerEvEr yOu gEt yOur PoDcAsTs

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Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social! Snacks and drinks will be provided as usual. For more information and to sign up to attend online, see the link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Title screen for Lucy McCormick's video 'The history of social class and the Bibliography of British and Irish History'

In this On History blog, @lucy-mccormick.bsky.social and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of social class buff.ly/ZDbRcur

QUB History seminar on Friday at 4pm

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Seminar: Hiram Morgan

If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...

Join online from your home for this great seminar by @sophcocooper.bsky.social talking about others feeling at home, which is taking place TOMORROW at 7pm!

On Monday 17 November we'll be joined by Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples), who will speak on 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism'. All welcome, in-person or online. Registration is at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison

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Launch of Honoured the latest volume of Irish Legal History Society discourses, Confluences of Law and History, in Belfast on Friday, November 14th.

Photo of Lanyon Building at Queen's University Belfast

AHRC Awards for PhD study in Arts and Humanities at QUB (starting Sept. 2026) are now advertised at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...

Another fascinating @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar coming up later TODAY by Dr Lloyd Maphosa! Chaired by the great @emorier.bsky.social. Drinks and snacks provided. All welcome! More information and the sign up for attending online in the link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Irish Studies Seminar: Catriona Kennedy, 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'

On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

Check our this piece on the representation of the Irish revolution in the French press - coauthored with @siobhraaiken.bsky.social and Mark O’Rawe !
@cecille-ulille.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @meshs.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @ccirlandais.bsky.social