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History Research Projects

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Funded by: 

Welfare and public health in Belfast and the its region, c.1800-1973

Directed by: Prof. Peter Gray and Dr Olwen Purdue


AHRC 2012-15

The politics of consumer credit in the UK, 1938-1992

Directed by: Dr Sean O'Connell and Dr Paul Corthorn


Leverhulme Trust 2012-13

Documentary film and the public communication of historical knowledge in Northern Ireland

Directed by: Dr Fearghal McGarry


 AHRC 2011-13

Sir Robert Hart Project

Directed by Dr Emma Reisz / Ms Deirdre Wildy (McClay Library)

 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

 PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS:


 

An Urban History of Belfast

Directed by Professor Sean Connolly


 Leverhulme Trust (2010-11)

Documenting Ireland – Parliament, People and Migration 18th-20th Centuries (DIPPAM)

Directed by Professor Peter Gray


 AHRC DEDEFI Scheme (2010-11)

Africans at Queen's University
Directed by Dr Eric Morier-Genoud


 QUB Development and Alumni Office (2010)

Marriage in Ireland, 1660 - 1925

Co-directed by Prof Mary O'Dowd and Prof Maria Luddy (Warwick University)


  AHRC (2007-10)

After Slavery: Race, Labour and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas

Directed by Dr Brian Kelly in partnership with Bruce Baker (University of London- Royal Holloway) and Susan E. O’Donovan (Harvard University)


 AHRC (2006-10)

The History of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Directed by Professor Keith Jeffery


 Government Communications Bureau (2005-10)

Religious Demography and Conflict in Ireland, 1660-1914

Directed by Liam Kennedy and Professor K A Miller with Dr Brian Gurrin


 National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation

Welfare Regimes under the Irish Poor Law 1850 - 1921

Co-directed by Prof Peter Gray and Dr Virginia Crossman (Oxford Brookes University)


 ESRC (2006-9)

Imagining Belfast: Political Rituals, Symbols and Crowds

Directed by Professor Sean Connolly (with Dr Dominic Bryan, Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB)


 ESRC (2005-7)

Directed by Prof. Liam Kennedy


 Heritage Lottery Fund

Towards a History of Irish Prices, 1750s - 1913

Directors: Liam Kennedy and Professor Peter Solar, Vesalius College, Vrije universitat, Brussels


 

Migration from Northern Ireland: narratives of exile, identity and belonging

Director: Prof. Liam Kennedy


 AHRC

West Belfast Families in 1911 on the Internet

Director: Prof. Liam Kennedy


 Heritage Lottery Fund (2003-5)
Women in Public Life

Directed by Prof. Mary O'Dowd, with Dr Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin) and Dr Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick)


Republic of Ireland’s Higher Education Authority’s North South Programme of Collaborative Research

Irish Legislation Project

Director: Prof. David Hayton


Leverhulme Trust (2004-7)