Happy #SiblingsDay 👫🎉 delighted to say that my first monograph will be out later this year. It’s on the website, so it must be real!!

Professor Olwen Purdue (olwenpurdue.bsky.social), Director of QUB Public History at Queen's University Belfast 🎓 hosts Lonnie G. Bunch III, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for a conversation on the role of museums in dealing with difficult pasts and divided presents.

23 April 2024
1200 - 1300
Great Hall, QUB.

The next USIHS public lecture is on Thursday 18 April at 6pm - in-person at QUB and online. Joe Curran will speak on ‘Castle and City: Dublin Castle in its urban context, 1801-1923′. All welcome. usihs36.com/2024/03/04/usi…

This from Andy Bielenberg Dr Helene O'Keeffe John Borgonovo and others from @ucc Atlas of the Irish Revolution team looks very impressive and extremely useful to scholars of the Civil War ucc.ie/en/theirishrev…

You are warmly invited to the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Fearghal McGarry on Friday 26th April at 5pm in the Council Chamber, QUB.
The Lecture is titled Friends of Soviet Russia or ‘Satan’s dark agents’? Anti-communism as culture war in 1930s Ireland’.

We have extended the call for papers for our annual conference until Friday 5 April. The conference will be held in Ulster University from 21-22 June and we are excited to welcome Dr. Amy Tooth Murphy as our keynote speaker oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2024-conference #OralHistory #Derry #CFP

Earlier this month REF 2029 launched a consultation on its #OpenAccess Policy, which includes books & edited collections.

A new Royal Historical Society blog provides an explainer to these proposals and identifies initial questions & concerns bit.ly/3TA22HN #twitterstorians 1/2

Last chance to apply for the R.J. Hunter Digital Fellowship which closes tomorrow, 27 March!

A post-doctoral fellowship to further develop the prosopographical database of British Settlers in the Ulster Plantation (1609-1700).

How to apply: bit.ly/3vz0N3H

#RIAgrants

We’re rather excited …

There is a growing sentiment among those engaged in Belfast’s history that the city should establish its own festival. The success of such an endeavour relies on the active support and participation of the public.

Join us for a conversation with Glenn Patterson, Leanne…

Our next Irish Studies seminar will be on Monday 8 April - Dr Andrew Holmes (QUB) will speak on 'The northern revival, Presbyterians, and the second series of the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 1894-1911’. All welcome - in person or online
eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studie…

Five full-time, permanent academic positions available - apply now 👉 ucl.ac.uk/history/opport…

@ucl_history
UCL Social & Historical Sciences

Applications for our IHR Doctoral Fellowships will be opening on 08th April 2024! All information on how to apply will be available on our website closer to the date - history.ac.uk/fellowships/ea… #IHRFellowships 📖 🖊️

‘Inclusive Global Histories - Our journey towards decolonisation, diversity and inclusion’ with ⁦Ulster Museum⁩ Agrippa Njanina this Friday 4pm ⁦HAPP at Queen's⁩ ⁦Queen’s Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility⁩ ⁦QUB History⁩ #publichistory #museums #decolonisation qub.ac.uk/research-centr…

Delighted that my new book (& first trade book!) MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY will be published by Hurst Publishers this August.

It tells the remarkable story of how Britain became multicultural.

Available for pre-order now 👇👇👇

hurstpublishers.com/book/multicult…

Our next Irish Studies seminar is on 11 March at 4.30. Pauline Collombier will speak on ‘Women and Home Rule: insights from fictional and non-fictional sources’. All welcome. Register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studie…

** This Friday 8 March **
Dr Lloyd Meluisi lloydmelusi will speak at 4pm at the QUB History seminar about Financial networks in the Cape colony #SouthAfrica HAPP at Queen's Queen's University Belfast 🎓 QUB Public History QUB BAME&I Staff Network Mitchell Institute at QUB Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch History Department

📘From our February issue!

Niamh Cullen (@niamhanncullen) (QUB History) and Katharina Rowold (@PPS_Essex) on 'Mothers’ Milk and Mothers’ Time: Childcare Advice and the Conceptualization of Demand Feeding in Post-1945 Britain and Italy'🤱

Read OA here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Calling all historians on the island of Ireland. Why not considering joining? Benefits include a Directory, Networking Events, Workshops, Bursaries, Discounts & Affiliation. IAPH is open to History PhDs and ancillary disciplines. Details at irishhistorians.ie/membership/ #iaphistorians

Tom Hulme's (QUB) talk on 'Male Queer Life in Belfast' is a delight to listen to: informative, eye opening and delivered in a lovely relaxed manner Worth 30mins of your time youtube.com/watch?v=PHjbSh… Irish Studies QUB QUB History Gay's The Word OXFORD IRISH SEMINAR The Irish Cultural Centre