History at Queen's University Belfast
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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/
AHRC Awards for PhD study in Arts and Humanities at QUB (starting Sept. 2026) are now advertised at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
AHRC Awards for PhD study in Arts and Humanities at QUB (starting Sept. 2026) are now advertised at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST
'“History Wars” in Contemporary India' - a lecture by Prof. Janaki Nair (JNU), will be held on Tuesday 14 Oct. at 12.00 in 27UQ/01/003, QUB.
www.qub.ac.uk/events/whats...
www.qub.ac.uk/events/whats...
September 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
'“History Wars” in Contemporary India' - a lecture by Prof. Janaki Nair (JNU), will be held on Tuesday 14 Oct. at 12.00 in 27UQ/01/003, QUB.
www.qub.ac.uk/events/whats...
www.qub.ac.uk/events/whats...
The 2026 Wiles Lecturer in History at QUB has been confirmed as Professor Sunil Amrith (Yale University). His topic will be 'Towards a History of Repair' and the four lectures will be delivered daily on 20-23 May 2026. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
September 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The 2026 Wiles Lecturer in History at QUB has been confirmed as Professor Sunil Amrith (Yale University). His topic will be 'Towards a History of Repair' and the four lectures will be delivered daily on 20-23 May 2026. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
QUB History research seminars - Fridays at 4pm starting 26 September. All welcome!
September 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
QUB History research seminars - Fridays at 4pm starting 26 September. All welcome!
Prof Ludmilla Jordanova delivered an excellent and highly suitable Keith Jeffery memorial lecture today featuring William Orpen and the public history of military portraiture
September 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Prof Ludmilla Jordanova delivered an excellent and highly suitable Keith Jeffery memorial lecture today featuring William Orpen and the public history of military portraiture
Gasfield House, Ormeau Road . Belfast c.1874. Gasfield House was demolished 1878-9 and the new gasworks buildings were built on the site. The Manager of the Gasworks lived in the house.
Courtesy of the NMNI and NI Historical Photographic Society.
Courtesy of the NMNI and NI Historical Photographic Society.
August 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Gasfield House, Ormeau Road . Belfast c.1874. Gasfield House was demolished 1878-9 and the new gasworks buildings were built on the site. The Manager of the Gasworks lived in the house.
Courtesy of the NMNI and NI Historical Photographic Society.
Courtesy of the NMNI and NI Historical Photographic Society.
A photo of Hunter Street in the Sandy Row area of Belfast, taken by A.R. Hogg, on 2 April 1932: the Elim Pentecostal Zion Tabernacle with Pastor Mooney preaching after opening.
Courtesy of the Hogg Collection National Museums of Northern Ireland (and NI Historical Photographic Society)
Courtesy of the Hogg Collection National Museums of Northern Ireland (and NI Historical Photographic Society)
August 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
A photo of Hunter Street in the Sandy Row area of Belfast, taken by A.R. Hogg, on 2 April 1932: the Elim Pentecostal Zion Tabernacle with Pastor Mooney preaching after opening.
Courtesy of the Hogg Collection National Museums of Northern Ireland (and NI Historical Photographic Society)
Courtesy of the Hogg Collection National Museums of Northern Ireland (and NI Historical Photographic Society)
'Public History in an Age of Anxiety', QUB Centre for Public History Conference, 9-11 September. Register now and join us for a packed programme over three days.
www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
August 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
'Public History in an Age of Anxiety', QUB Centre for Public History Conference, 9-11 September. Register now and join us for a packed programme over three days.
www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
Prize winning students!
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Prize winning students!
Special congratulations to all our History PhDs who received their doctoral awards today: Sarah Curry, Andrew Hamilton, Barry Henderson, Rachel Newell, Jamie Nugent, Declan O'Doherty, Emma Taylor and Sophia Traxler
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Special congratulations to all our History PhDs who received their doctoral awards today: Sarah Curry, Andrew Hamilton, Barry Henderson, Rachel Newell, Jamie Nugent, Declan O'Doherty, Emma Taylor and Sophia Traxler
Many congrats to all our History students graduating today!
July 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Many congrats to all our History students graduating today!
Today we celebrated the a retirement of two of our most long-standing History colleagues. Best of luck to John and Scott - you will be missed!
June 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Today we celebrated the a retirement of two of our most long-standing History colleagues. Best of luck to John and Scott - you will be missed!
Linda Colley talking to Richard English today at QUB about her book The Gun, The Ship & The Pen
June 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Linda Colley talking to Richard English today at QUB about her book The Gun, The Ship & The Pen
That’s a wrap for this year’s scintillating series of Wiles Lectures by Harvard’s Sven Beckert - a taster for his ‘Capitalism: A Global History’, due out in November
May 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
That’s a wrap for this year’s scintillating series of Wiles Lectures by Harvard’s Sven Beckert - a taster for his ‘Capitalism: A Global History’, due out in November
Some of our Wiles academic guests took a trip to Mount Stewart house yesterday - Prabhu Mohapatra (Delhi), Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Tamis Parron (Rio de Janeiro)
May 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Some of our Wiles academic guests took a trip to Mount Stewart house yesterday - Prabhu Mohapatra (Delhi), Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Tamis Parron (Rio de Janeiro)
Sven Beckert will give the final 2025 Wiles lecture on Saturday morning at 11am, on ‘Capitalism’s Shapeshifting’. All welcome
May 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Sven Beckert will give the final 2025 Wiles lecture on Saturday morning at 11am, on ‘Capitalism’s Shapeshifting’. All welcome
Today’s Wiles Lecture with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on ‘Local Histories of Global Capitalism is coming up at 5pm - all welcome!
May 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Today’s Wiles Lecture with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on ‘Local Histories of Global Capitalism is coming up at 5pm - all welcome!
Sven Beckert of @harvard.edu gets this year’s Wiles Lectures at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social off to a great start with an excellent lecture on ‘The time of capitalism’.
Join us on Thursday at 5pm for the next, on 'Spaces of capitalism' www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
Join us on Thursday at 5pm for the next, on 'Spaces of capitalism' www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
May 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Sven Beckert of @harvard.edu gets this year’s Wiles Lectures at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social off to a great start with an excellent lecture on ‘The time of capitalism’.
Join us on Thursday at 5pm for the next, on 'Spaces of capitalism' www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
Join us on Thursday at 5pm for the next, on 'Spaces of capitalism' www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
Many congratulations to Dr Ruth Duffy, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at QUB History, starting in October. Ruth’s project will be in ‘Understanding the Provision of Prison Healthcare in Northern Ireland (1921–Present)’
May 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Many congratulations to Dr Ruth Duffy, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at QUB History, starting in October. Ruth’s project will be in ‘Understanding the Provision of Prison Healthcare in Northern Ireland (1921–Present)’
Congratulations to Robyn Atcheson on her work leading to the unveiling of a Great Famine memorial at the Shankill Graveyard in Belfast.
The memorial marks the main burial place in Belfast for those who died in those terrible times.
The memorial marks the main burial place in Belfast for those who died in those terrible times.
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Congratulations to Robyn Atcheson on her work leading to the unveiling of a Great Famine memorial at the Shankill Graveyard in Belfast.
The memorial marks the main burial place in Belfast for those who died in those terrible times.
The memorial marks the main burial place in Belfast for those who died in those terrible times.
This year's Wiles Lectures in History will be given at QUB on 28-31 May by Prof Sven Beckert of Harvard, on ‘Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism’. There are 4 free public lectures over 4 days: details at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
May 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This year's Wiles Lectures in History will be given at QUB on 28-31 May by Prof Sven Beckert of Harvard, on ‘Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism’. There are 4 free public lectures over 4 days: details at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
A sketch of Devenish Island from Department of Communities NI Sites and Monuments Record website - apps.communities-ni.gov.uk/NISMR-public...
April 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A sketch of Devenish Island from Department of Communities NI Sites and Monuments Record website - apps.communities-ni.gov.uk/NISMR-public...
From PRONI: map of the proposed park at Sydenham, Belfast, known as Victoria Park.
This map dates to the 1890s when the land was owned by the Harbour Commissioners. In 1892 Belfast Corporation took over the land and the park opened to the public in 1906 and completed in 1912/13.
PRONI: D2048/3
This map dates to the 1890s when the land was owned by the Harbour Commissioners. In 1892 Belfast Corporation took over the land and the park opened to the public in 1906 and completed in 1912/13.
PRONI: D2048/3
April 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
From PRONI: map of the proposed park at Sydenham, Belfast, known as Victoria Park.
This map dates to the 1890s when the land was owned by the Harbour Commissioners. In 1892 Belfast Corporation took over the land and the park opened to the public in 1906 and completed in 1912/13.
PRONI: D2048/3
This map dates to the 1890s when the land was owned by the Harbour Commissioners. In 1892 Belfast Corporation took over the land and the park opened to the public in 1906 and completed in 1912/13.
PRONI: D2048/3