Another great project developed by the Centre for Public History at QUB

🎨 Apply by 29 Sept 2025 for a £10,000 Artist Residency at Mount Stewart, Co. Down! Part of the Historic Houses, Global Crossroads research, the 6-week residency (May–June 2026) invites artists to explore global plant networks & reimagine the site’s ecological legacy🌿See link in thread.

Another week, another workhouse!

Last night I attended the unveiling of a new memorial at Magherafelt workhouse.

The Loup & District Historical Society, with the expert guidance of Dr Ciaran Reilly, did an excellent job with this project.

Had a great excuse this week to revisit a workhouse.
Limavady (or Newtownlimavady) was opened in 1842 as a medium model capable of holding 500 paupers.
It is now better known in the area as Roe Valley Hospital where some outpatient services are still in operation.
#workhouse

You may have heard me on Radio Ulster yesterday morning chatting with Anna Curran about a very interesting Belfast woman - Flora Lewis.

The full story of this woman and her life is now up on my website.
#womenshistory

www.robynatcheson.com/articles/flo...

We are closed 11-14 July.
While we are away, here are some important things to remember!

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, I chatted sex history & the Georgians earlier this year for a new podcast -
Austen After Dark

This is very NSFW and also NSFMF (Not Suitable For My Family)

(You've been warned)

open.spotify.com/episode/0zQJ...

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

Finished up exam marking today and fitted in some prep for a radio interview tomorrow.
Pre-recording some women's history for BBC Radio Ulster. Looking forward to chatting about women's education in Belfast & a special mathematician.

I got an enquiry from a US academic about an exhibition held in Belfast in 1935. We had the catalogue in our archive. Who knew the Belfast Museum & Art Gallery @ulstermuseum.org
were so forward thinking! #WaltDisney

BIG EMBROIDERY-NOT-A-TAPESTRY NEWS! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Appreciation post for my wee man Ben, pictured here helping me prepare a chapter a few years ago.

We had to say goodbye on Friday and I miss him so much already.
My husband had him for 9 years (a rescue of indeterminate age) & I was lucky enough to become his second human.

As a historian, I research the history I'm passionate about. My PhD was on poor relief in 19th-century Belfast and it left me with a passion for the stories of the marginalised. The poor, the sick, the have-nots.

Teach na mbocht, An Bábhún Buí, Contae an Chabháin

Last year I acted as historical consultant for this film about the workhouse burial ground in Newtownards and the impact of the Famine.

So pleased to see it out in the world.
#history #irishhistory #famine

youtu.be/3i6-cHvtP6c?...

Hello! I'm new here.
I'm Robyn, I talk about workhouses a lot and wear a lot of pink.
One is kinda my job as a professional historian.
The other is a way of life.