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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/
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Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
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If you missed Catriona Kennedy's talk yesterday on 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution', a recording is now available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dV...
Irish Studies Seminar: Catriona Kennedy
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you missed Catriona Kennedy's talk yesterday on 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution', a recording is now available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dV...
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New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Junior Research Fellowship in the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Quill Project)
Pembroke College wishes to appoint a Junior Research Fellow in the History of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The appointment will be from early 2026 until 31 July 2027. The post is full-time and ...
www.pmb.ox.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
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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
Topic: The Tory Titanic: Civic Society Opposition to Thatcher's Poll Tax.
4pm, 27 University Square. All welcome sign-up at Eventbrite! #History #QUB
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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
Topic: The Tory Titanic: Civic Society Opposition to Thatcher's Poll Tax.
4pm, 27 University Square. All welcome sign-up at Eventbrite! #History #QUB
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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...
AHRC 'Doctoral Landscape' - 6 awards for candidates proposing their own research topics - closing 13 January 2026
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
With match funding from Queen’s, we are offering six funded studentships beginning in 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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...
AHRC 'Doctoral Landscape' - 6 awards for candidates proposing their own research topics - closing 13 January 2026
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
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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...
Applications by 13 Jan 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CSHIS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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...
Applications by 13 Jan 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CSHIS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Observing the Heavens from the ‘Periphery’: Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Observing the Heavens from the ‘Periphery’: Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CSHIS02 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Observing the Heavens from the ‘Periphery’: Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Observing the Heavens from the ‘Periphery’: Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Our Place: Our Stories: History and Placemaking among Belfast's Underserved Communities'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Our Place: Our Stories: History and Placemaking among Belfast's Underserved Communities'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CSHIS03 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Our Place: Our Stories: History and Placemaking among Belfast's Underserved Communities'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Our Place: Our Stories: History and Placemaking among Belfast's Underserved Communities'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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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!
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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!
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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.
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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.
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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
Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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
Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro
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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!
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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!
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
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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
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
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...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
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(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
Programs - School of Advanced Study
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November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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...
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…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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...
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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.🗃️
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...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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.🗃️
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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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Listen on Spotify oR wHerEvEr yOu gEt yOur PoDcAsTs
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A new history of multicultural Britain
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November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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
open.spotify.com/episode/4Zey...
Listen on Spotify oR wHerEvEr yOu gEt yOur PoDcAsTs
open.spotify.com/episode/4Zey...
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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...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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...
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...
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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
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
QUB History seminar on Friday at 4pm
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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...
Irish Studies Seminar: Hiram Morgan
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...
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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!
In a change to our planned seminar series, our next seminar will be Sophie Cooper speaking on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora'. Thursday 13 Nov, *online* at 7pm. @sophcocooper.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...
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Sophie Cooper: USIHS seminar - Building to feel ‘at home’
USIHS Seminar. Online, Thursday 13 November at 7pm.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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!