Medievalists, Classicists, and Early Modernists at Queen's University, Belfast.
Borderlines XIX
Translating the Past: Appropriating the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
10th-12th April 2015
The 19th annual iteration of the Borderlines Medieval and Early Modern conference for post-graduate students welcomed more than 50 participants from across Ireland, the UK, …
Queen’s PhD student at the School of History and Anthropology Robin McCallum discusses the significance of the 1345 charter granted to the city of Norwich
A royal charter was one of the most prized possessions a medieval town could receive …
Hi everyone!
If you look back a few posts you will see the ones I put up about my wonderful experiences on the Svartarkot course in Iceland.
Well now you too have the opportunity to be involved with this wonderful …
Just in time for Halloween, PhD student Aisling Reid reports on her recent visit to the Body Worlds Vital exhibition in Newcastle…
The Body Worlds Vital exhibition, currently on show in Newcastle’s Life Science Centre, offers a fascinating insight into …
To give you a bit more of an idea what it was like in Iceland, I’m doing a second post! (Hold your cheers)
We began with a truly epic bus journey (like, 12 hours worth of epic) through the central …
So this is the post where I finally explain what on earth I was doing for two weeks in a remote valley in Northern Iceland! (Apart from making friends with sheep).
Well, this summer I was lucky enough to get …
From the 30th to the 31st of May this year, the International Society for Heresy Studies held its inaugural conference in New York University, bringing together researchers of heresy from all disciplines and periods. Identifying a ‘return to …
Derek Crosby, a PhD student in Medieval History at Queen’s, reflects on politicians’ and journalists’ recent uses and abuses of the medieval past
During the Conservatives’ recent bluster about ‘Britishness’ and ‘British Values’ in education, the Magna Carta was evoked …
This year’s Borderlines conference was held at University College Cork and hosted delegates from all over Ireland, the UK and further abroad. The theme was ‘Power and Influence’, inspiring a diverse selection of papers that demonstrated just how wide-ranging are …