Budding archivists from Queen’s University Belfast are delving into unseen documents, photos, and stories to tell the hidden history of Gaeilgeoirí in the 1970s.

A symposium & Invited In Conversation with Secretary Bunch (Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and Kathryn Thompson (Chief Executive, National Museums NI) co-hosted by the Centre for Public History, QUB, and the Smithsonian Institution

A workshop and symposium in collaboration with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the University of Virginia.

Researchers from Queen’s University are part of a team that has secured £1.48m from the UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a public history project to re-examine two of Ulster’s historic houses, Clandeboye and Mount Stewart.

Prof. Julia Laite (Birkbeck), as part of the 2024 Annual Conference

Centre for Public History Annual Conference in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship Hub and MediaLab at QUB

Inaugural Conference of the European Network of Public History Masters Programmes, organised by students on the MA in Public History programmes at Queen's University Belfast and the University of York

Observations from a Women’s Oral History of West Belfast, 1975-1995; Sarah Mason (University of Edinburgh)

Hosted by The Centre for Public History and the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast

Centre for Public History Seminar on February 23 @ Seminar Room, 27 University Square

Centre for Public History Seminar on March 15 @ Seminar Room, 27 University Square

"Monticello gets all the love, but it's Montpelier that's doing the cutting-edge work in the curation of slavery at historic sites"

This lecture will examine the challenges for nations of dealing with their own difficult or controversial histories.

This conference brings together leading scholars and practitioners from Europe and North America to Belfast to interrogate challenges facing historians and museum professionals as they seek to address difficult or traumatic pasts in various contexts.

May- July 2022

Sonja Boon (Memorial University) 'Playing with Mud; or What Happens Where Water Meets Land. Thinking About Archives, Absences, and the Spaces Between'

Call for Papers

Interested in an MA in Public History? Announcing the Keith Jeffery Memorial MA Student Scholarship for students from BAME background. Full domestic fees covered. International applicants welcome. Apply now for a September 2021 start.

This conference, organised in partnership between the Centre for Public History and the Institute for Historical Research, will take place on 21-22 October 2021.

This online lecture, presented by Professor Olivette Otele, Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society, will take place on 27 September 2021.