History at Queen's University Belfast (QUB)

Our MA History is always very popular and allows students to work with the largest and most international community of historians on the island of Ireland!

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Here’s an absolutely beautiful photograph from Queens University. Say cheese!!!

Looks like it’s the lecturers or professors are getting their photograph taken on constitution day 1896.

Copyright of Queens University Belfast.

Many congratulations to our colleagues Andrew Holmes and Eric Morier-Genoud on their promotions to Professor of History

Congratulations to our fantastic Dr Leonie Hannan and Professor Olwen Purdue on publication of their new edited collection 'Public History In Ireland' 👏

A perfect addition to our summer reading list! 📚

Tom Church from Burton-on-Trent graduates today with a degree in History from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics. He is pictured with his family.

Congratulations, Tom!

Congratulations to Caoilfhionn McKee who graduates in International Politics and Conflict Studies, Conor Devenney in History and International Relations, Sophia Armstrong in History and Politics and Beth McAvoy in History and Politics.

Enjoy the celebrations!

Many congratulations to Suzanne Jobling who recently passed her viva! A fantastic achievement 🥳

The new Dr Jobling was supervised by our wonderful Professors Marie Coleman and Diane Urquhart

Congratulations to our colleagues Dr Kieran Connell and Dr Keira Williams on being promoted to Reader in History at QUB!

Many thanks to Professor Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge) for delivering this year's Wiles Lecture Series (Pictured with our Professor Peter Gray)

A fascinating collection of talks on 'The Persecution of the Tongue: Speech, Silence, and Religious Coexistence in Early Modern England’

📽️Recordings of all four lectures available now 👉 https://ow.ly/h1fv50S9VGv

Thanks to everyone who supported last week's Wiles Lectures by Prof Alexandra Walsham. Recordings of her 4 lectures on ‘The Persecution of the Tongue: Speech, Silence, and Religious Coexistence in Early Modern England’ are now available via the webpage at:

Wiles Lecture Series | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | Queen's University Belfast The Wiles Lectures were founded in 1953 by Mrs Austen Boyd of Craigavad, Co. Down, in memory of her father, Thomas S. Wiles of Albany, New York. Mrs Boyd generously endowed a trust fund to support an annual series of lectures at Queen's University Belfast ‘to promote the study of the history of ci...

📣1 WEEK until the Institute of Irish Studies International Lecture

Professor Michael O’Malley (George Mason University): ‘Policing and the Construction of Irish Culture: The Case of Captain O’Neill’

📅04/06, 5pm
🏛️Council Chamber & Online

Register 👉https://ow.ly/slbv50RSlGE..

This year's Institute of Irish Studies International Lecture is fast approaching!

Professor Michael O’Malley (George Mason University): ‘Policing and the Construction of Irish Culture: The Case of Captain O’Neill’

📅04/06, 5pm
🏛️Council Chamber, Lanyon Building & Online

Register 👉https://ow.ly/GZJi50RSlGF..

Prof Alexandra Walsham’s final Wiles Lecture, on ‘Talking Toleration’ will be today (Sat) at 11am at QUB - all welcome!
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/Events/annual-lectures/wiles-lecture-series/

The centre of the gravity of the final lecture is the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It seeks to delineate social and cultural shifts that were reconfiguring what it meant to coexist with religious difference. It traces a series of discourses and practices that have frequently been linked with a diminution of the tensions associated with England’s long Reformation and the rise of ‘toleration’. It considers the evolving connotations of ‘charity’ and ‘civility’ in tandem with new styles of speech, talk and conversation, especially the premium placed on courtesy and politeness. It argues that we must attend to the changing character and tone as well as the content of verbal exchange. If language helped people to come to terms with the religious diversity surrounding them, it also served to perpetuate forms of religious exclusion. It retained a capacity to ratchet up the polemical temperature of interconfessional relations and to precipitate conflict and violence.

Wonderful to have so many members of the Boyd family join us for last night’s Wiles Lecture, including our founder Janet Boyd’s son Robert

Prof Alexandra Walsham’s third Wiles Lecture will be delivered today (Friday) at 5pm. Her subject is ‘Exchanging Words’. https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/Events/annual-lectures/wiles-lecture-series/

Taking as its point of departure the phrase ‘exchanging words’, this lecture examines what contemporaries meant when they complained that they were subject to ‘the persecution of the tongue’, before turning to explore the significance of the derogatory religious nicknames that proliferated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The defamatory speeches that people uttered against their neighbours not only ruffled feathers in local communities; they also led to cases in the church and civil courts, the records of which allow us to trace the linguistic contours of religious coexistence at the grassroots. The final section of the lecture investigates public disputes and dialogues as mechanisms for restoring unity, achieving reconciliation, and facilitating the triumph of the truth.

Alexandra Walsham will give her second Wiles Lecture today (23 May) at 5pm. Her subject is 'Telling the Truth'. All welcome!

The second lecture investigates how the imperative to tell the truth shaped social relations in the aftermath of the Reformation. It considers the Christian duty of fraternal correction and the Protestant doctrine of charitable reproof alongside the practice of passionate religious evangelism. It highlights the renewed emphasis that rival churches placed on openly confessing one’s faith and bearing audible witness to its truth despite the threat of persecution. Correspondingly, it analyses the anxieties that surrounded certain forms of silence, including dissimulation, equivocation, and mental reservation. It dissects the worries that surrounded the disjuncture between words and deeds and the problem of reconciling the demands of conscience with maintaining cordial relationships with neighbours and acquaintances who adhered to different faiths.

https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/Events/annual-lectures/wiles-lecture-series/

As we prepare to launch another Wiles Lectures series today, people who attended last year's series by Barbara Savage on the 'Future of African-American History', might be interested to know that much of the material of the lectures is available in her new book _Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar_, published in late 2023 in the US and February 2024 in the UK by Yale UP https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300270273/merze-tate/

Starts tomorrow (22 May) at 5pm - all welcome!

Coming up next week 22-25 May - the 2024 Wiles Lectures will be given by Prof Alexandra Walsham on ‘The Persecution of the Tongue: Speech, Silence, and Religious Coexistence in Early Modern England’. All welcome. More info at: https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/Events/annual-lectures/wiles-lecture-series/

Next Tuesday Dr Nik Ribinaszky will be speaking on African Americans and the Irish in Natchez Mississippi

Congrats to PhD student Constantin Torve, whose research article ‘"The mendacious Irish character:" Molly Maguire, anti-Irish sentiment, and anti-labor propaganda in the American press, 1880–1920', has been published online by Labor History at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0023656X.2024.2355214