Olwen Purdue

Very proud of this amazing bunch of public historians. Wishing them all the best for whatever lies ahead

Fantastic crowd for our @publichistoryqub.bsky.social roundtable on developing non-extractive practice in arts, culture and historical research #publichistory

Join us on Thursday 6 Nov for this wide-ranging discussion on the ethics of engaged research with communitues www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

Brilliant close to a brilliant conference as UCSC’s Jasmine Alinder reflects on how traumatic and erased historical narratives can be brought to the fore in new and accessible ways in an age of anxiety

Interested in contested or difficult public history? Fulbright-Queen's University Belfast awards now available for an MA in Public History in Belfast, Northern Ireland @ncph.bsky.social @publichistory.bsky.social @westernupubhist.bsky.social
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Interested in contested public history? Fulbright-Queen’s University Belfast award now available for an MA in Public History at Queen’s University Belfast. Apply now! @ncph.bsky.social @@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social us.fulbrightonline.org/countries/eu...

Join us on 4 September for the launch of this Special Issue on 'Conflict and Peace: the Cultural Dimension'. @laiabalcells.bsky.social will be discussing our article on the roles of museums in addressing Northern Ireland's violent past

🎤 In Conversation: Exploring Travelling Culture & Craft
🗓️ Aug 7 | 6–7PM 📍 Collins Barracks, Dublin
Hear from Traveller artists & curators on heritage, craft & identity.
🎟️ Free – Book via www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
#TravellerCulture #IrishCraft #Mincéirí

Which is why I am so excited to reveal that Europe Speaks, my project on the ISK, has been awarded an AHRC Catalyst Grant.

This grant enables me to conduct this research in @qubhistory.bsky.social, starting later this year. I can't wait to delve into the archives again.

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If universities sink, then so will Starmer Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them

“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit.

“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”

Fantastic to celebrate with this year’s @publichistoryqub.bsky.social MA students as they share the great work they’ve been doing during their 30-day internships. And thanks as always to our many amazing partners who provide these wonderful opportunities

Mark the 10 year anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum | National Museum of Ireland Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

Great initiative by @nmireland.bsky.social to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum! www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/W...

Join us on 27 May for a talk by Prof Mark McGowan, Uni of Toronto, on Indigenous aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. Cohosted with @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social and @irishheritage.bsky.social . Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-mcgow...

On 27 May Irish Studies will be co-hosting with @publichistoryqub.bsky.social and @irishheritagetrust.bsky.social a talk by Prof Mark McGowan on 'Honouring Indigenous Aid for Famine Ireland from Canada in 1847'. All welcome: register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-mcgow... @olwenpurdue.bsky.social

Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society Lucy Noakes on how the crisis in UK higher education is impacting history and historians, and how the Royal Historical Society can advocate for our discipline.

How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK?

Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline.
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Fully funded Queen Mary University of London with the Museum of the Home (Soundscapes of Domesticity: Music and Lived Experience in Non-Elite English Homes, 1780-1870). Deadline 17:00pm BST, Friday 23 May 2025. Great topic, great team. Go for it!

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

Beautiful piece Kieran, and such a surprise!

University of Derby staff face mass job cuts as management plans to axe half of senior academics University of Derby staff face mass job cuts as management plans to axe half of senior academics

University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

Applications now open for our exciting Creative Residency opportunity at Mount Stewart, County Down (Nat Trust), part of our Historic Houses, Global Crossroads project. treatiedspaces.com/creative-res...

Graphic showing raised hands and speech bubble with the text: RHS Scouloudi Panel Grants, 2025. New funding programme, closing date Friday 23 May.

Graphic of the word 'History' composed of people with the additional text: Applications invited for RHS Scouloudi Public History Grants, 2025. New funding programme, closes 23 May'.

Applications now invited for the Society's 2 new funding programmes supported by the Scouloudi Foundation:

> RHS Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK
> RHS Panel Grants bit.ly/4ky23ZP

Both programmes will assist historians working collaboratively, in and outside higher education #Skystorians

What a great paper on Hip-Hop and Rapping (US) Republicans by GW’s Prof Loren Kajikawa! Great to have him here at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social for a week!

Three days left to submit your abstract. Public History in an Age of Anxiety conference, Belfast, 10-11 Sept 25. *Please repost*

Interested in an MA in Public History? Where better to study than in Belfast! Want to hear more? Sign up now to join our information webinar this Monday at 5pm BST (noon EST)
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Never more appropriate, and important, than now

Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949 "Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.

Our new volume, edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, has been published by Brill.

Please order 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949' for your institutional library today!

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We're hiring 2 new colleagues @historyatgalway.bsky.social

- Lecturer A (.4FTE; 4-year post) in History (Ireland in Global Context)
- Lecturer A (1FTE; 6-month post) in History (Irish Economy and Society, 1750-1900)

Go here and click 'Academic Vacancies' www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/
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Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums The order says that

Not unexpected, but deeply depressing news nonetheless. It didn’t take long for the Smithsonian to become the next target www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...