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History
Research

The expertise and publications of History staff have shaped understanding of the past and public debate on a wide range of topics. We have been particularly active in engaging recently with the ‘Decade of Centenaries’ and First World War commemorations in Ireland and Britain, with the public representation of the past more generally in museums and heritage bodies in Northern Ireland and beyond, and in addressing historical topics including the role of religion in society, women’s struggles for equality, and race relations.

Our staff have wide-ranging expertise and interests that have shaped political debate and popular understandings of the past.  Recent research projects have included work on women in nineteenth century America, war and the supernatural in early-modern Europe, popular music in early-modern England and the global history of the Irish revolution. 

View all our funded research projects               Research Lead for History Dr Kieran Connell
 
These four examples of recent projects provide a flavour of the range of research in History at Queen's.

Our Research

Discover our diverse and exciting research output. Click on the image for more details.
Sinead O'Sullivan research project
'Crafting Knowledge in the Early Medieval West: Glosses, Learning and Culture, circa 800-1050’
Dr Sinead O'Sullivan

A research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Led by Dr Sinéad O’Sullivan, it explores the significance of glosses in early medieval scholarly communities, focussing on glosses on Virgil and the psalms.  

Bad Bridget
‘Bad Bridget: criminal and deviant Irish women in North America, 1838-1918'      
Dr Elaine Farrell

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this three-year project focuses on the sexually deviant woman, the bad mother and the criminal Irish woman in Boston, New York and Toronto.

Bad Bridget Podcast Series

100 ballads
'Hit Songs and their Significance in 17th Century England'  Professor Chris Marsh

Professor Marsh's research project aims to identify 100 hit songs from seventeenth-century England. He is working with a group of musicians to produce new recordings of the period’s most successful broadside ballads (single-sheet songs that were sung and sold on the streets).

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'Building Titanic: the economic and social context'  Professor Olwen Purdue 

Professor Purdue was specialist historical advisor for Titanic Belfast, one of the most popular new museums in the world. This research project sets Titanic in the context of the growth of industrial Belfast and the conditions that led to the success of shipbuilding.

What's happening in History?

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Research events

We host a number of public research events each year, including the Wiles Lectures which for over sixty years has been bringing a world-leading historians to Belfast to give a series of talks on an aspect of the history of civilisation; and the Keith Jeffery Lecture, given on a public history topic by a leading practitioner. 


Conferences

In recent years we have hosted major international conferences, such as the Urban History Society Conference (2019), Economic History Society Conference (2019). Oral History Society Conference (2018), and European Social Science History Conference (2018).


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Research Centres

The Centre for Public History co-ordinates our wide range of activities on public history and acts as liaison with partners in the museums and heritage sectors and media. The Centre organises regular conferences, workshops and public lectures.


Interdisciplinary Research

Our researchers also contribute to a wide range of interdisciplinary research centres at Queen’s, including the Institute for Irish Studies, the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the QUOTE hub for oral history research.

 


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International Connections

History has a number of partnerships with universities and other organisations around the world. We have student or staff exchanges with George Washington University, the College of Charleston, University of Illinois, and University of Texas, and collaborations with others including Boston College, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University and the University of New Brunswick.


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