Very proud of this amazing bunch of public historians. Wishing them all the best for whatever lies ahead

Fantastic crowd for our @publichistoryqub.bsky.social roundtable on developing non-extractive practice in arts, culture and historical research #publichistory

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...

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

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 us.fulbrightonline.org/countries/eu...

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

🎤 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

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.

“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.”

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

Great initiative by @nmireland.bsky.social to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum! www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/W...

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...

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

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....

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!

🚨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.' 🗃️

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...

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

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!

Three days left to submit your abstract. Public History in an Age of Anxiety conference, Belfast, 10-11 Sept 25. *Please repost*

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...

Never more appropriate, and important, than now

Our new volume, edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, has been published by Brill. Please order 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949' for your institutional library today! brill.com/display/titl...

We're hiring 2 new colleagues @historyatgalway.bsky.social - Lecturer A (.4FTE; 4-year post) in History (Ireland in Global Context) - Lecturer A (1FTE; 6-month post) in History (Irish Economy and Society, 1750-1900) Go here and click 'Academic Vacancies' www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/ 🗃️

Not unexpected, but deeply depressing news nonetheless. It didn’t take long for the Smithsonian to become the next target www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘UNMASKED: Curating a Public History Anti-lynching Exhibition’. Join us this Friday for our 4pm seminar with Prof Alex Lichenstein, Indiana University. www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

Call for papers for the 35th Conference of Irish Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities' closes 31 March. Open to historians of any geographic area and period. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Learn about the exciting plans across the National Museum of Ireland's locations in Dublin and Mayo for 2025. www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/J...

And now we've got our cover. Check it out! Courtesy of @ssnci.bsky.social and three exceptional (if I do say so) staff from ucddublin.bsky.social and a dozen of their genius peers via @livunipress.bsky.social #ssnci #ireland #conflict

This fantastic new Public History grant has just been launched by the @royalhistsoc.org - four awards of £1K to support historians working with & for public audiences royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

We're seeking applications from suitable candidates to fill the post of Collections Assistant in the Registration Department- Closing Date for Applications- Friday, 28th March 2025- www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...

After two days of workshopping our ideas on ethical, collaborative and restorative historical practice around traumatic pasts, today we had the privilege of presenting our work in a public forum. What an incredible, thought-provoking and inspiring few days. These conversations must continue

What an incredible two days of discussion at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social @publichistoryqub.bsky.social, USHMM conference about how to tell difficult histories and recover lost voices in ethical and truly collaborative ways

Religious groups who work with foreign aid have consistently told me the same thing, over and over, since the gutting of USAID: people — real people — are going to die, including children. According to this NYTimes piece, it’s already begun.

Yesterday, we co-hosted a symposium on ‘Different Communities, Difficult Histories’ in Washington DC. This fascinating event highlighted the role NI can play in helping the world develop difficult shared narratives. Find out more here: ow.ly/jALX50Vgxrc

What a fantastic conference with the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. And we’re delighted that Secretary Lonnie G Bunch will be joining QUB’s Centre for Public History as an Honorary Professor of Practice www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

An important statement from the heads of the leading organisations serving British historians including @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org & @histassoc.bsky.social. www.history-uk.ac.uk/2025/03/08/m...

Great start to our Divided Communities: Difficult Histories conference in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as Secretary Lonnie Bunch reflects on the need for empathy and authenticity in museums

Tomorrow, 11th, in the National Museum of American History we’re hosting the ‘Divided Communities: Difficult Histories’ conference. Never been more relevant www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

Coming up in March, we look forward to hosting this year's 'History and Archives in Practice' day conference, on Weds 5th, with partners @ihr.bsky.social and The National Archives bit.ly/3XlcLbW #HAP25's theme is ‘Working with Memory', with contributions from historians and archivists #Skystorians

Stefan Collini in @londonreview.bsky.social, October 2013

Very much looking forward to these very relevant discussions in National Museum of American History, 11 March. www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

Great work by some of our MA in Public History students and an amazing opportunity for them to experience working with local cultural heritage initiatives www.irishnews.com/news/norther...