Olwen Purdue
@olwenpurdue.bsky.social
Historian of the urban poor, children & welfare, migration, difficult public histories. Director, Centre for Public History Queen’s University Belfast . Happy in the forest with the pup or in front of the fire with a glass of something red
Fantastic crowd for our @publichistoryqub.bsky.social roundtable on developing non-extractive practice in arts, culture and historical research #publichistory
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Fantastic crowd for our @publichistoryqub.bsky.social roundtable on developing non-extractive practice in arts, culture and historical research #publichistory
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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...
Beyond Extractivist Practice: the Ethics of Engaged Research with Communities
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October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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...
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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
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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
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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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United Kingdom - Fulbright/Queen's University Belfast Award in in 'Conflict, Security and Contested Pasts'
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed for U.S. graduating seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to
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August 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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...
United Kingdom - Fulbright/Queen's University Belfast Award in in 'Conflict, Security and Contested Pasts'
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed for U.S. graduating seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to
us.fulbrightonline.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...
Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension
This webinar launches the Special Issue on Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension, published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in June 2025.
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August 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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
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🎤 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
🗓️ 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
July 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🎤 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
🗓️ 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
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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.
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.
June 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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.
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 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.”
“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”
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
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
“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.”
“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
May 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
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Great initiative by @nmireland.bsky.social to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum! www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/W...
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
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May 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Great initiative by @nmireland.bsky.social to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum! www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/W...
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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...
May 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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...
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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
May 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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
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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.
www.historyworkshop....
Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline.
www.historyworkshop....
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.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
April 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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.
www.historyworkshop....
Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline.
www.historyworkshop....
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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!
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship with Museum of the Home - School of GeographyFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok
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April 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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!
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🚨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.' 🗃️
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.' 🗃️
April 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🚨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.' 🗃️
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.' 🗃️
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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...
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
www.ucu.org.uk
April 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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...
April 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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...
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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
> 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
April 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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
> 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!
April 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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!
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Three days left to submit your abstract. Public History in an Age of Anxiety conference, Belfast, 10-11 Sept 25. *Please repost*
**Call for Papers** Public History in an Age of Anxiety CPH Annual Conference, Belfast, 2025
April 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Three days left to submit your abstract. Public History in an Age of Anxiety conference, Belfast, 10-11 Sept 25. *Please repost*
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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)
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/w...
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/w...
March 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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)
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/w...
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/w...
Never more appropriate, and important, than now
**Call for Papers** Public History in an Age of Anxiety CPH Annual Conference, Belfast, 2025
March 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Never more appropriate, and important, than now