Transition Skills and Widening Participation @QUBLibrary
As part of its support and outreach activities the Library at Queen’s has been involved in a number of recent
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Author: Kath Stevenson
LGBT History Month: Gay Rights in Belfast and Beyond by Emma Reisz, Nadine Gilmore and Tom Hulme
Just two years ago, in 2017, the Police Service of Northern Ireland marched in the city’s LGBT Pride Parade for
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The Memory of the Russian Revolution
An Empire in Transition The week beginning the 6th of November 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of
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New Materials on Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror donated to Special Collections
We are delighted to announce that Dr Barry McLoughlin (University of Vienna) has generously donated further materials relating to our
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Victorian Children’s Illustrators
The late C19 – early C20 period is commonly regarded as “The Golden Age” of children’s illustrated books and our
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“Read all about it!” Notes on an Annotated 18th Century Newspaper Collection at Armagh Public Library
Dr Michael O’Connor of QUB Special Collections reflects on an idiosyncratic Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Collection Recently, I had the good fortune
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Best case scenario!
As you may have noticed from our Twitter feed (or, indeed if you’ve been working on Floor One of the
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“Hillier called…”: A Glimpse at Sir Robert Hart’s Papers in Special Collections, Queen’s University, Belfast
About the author: Andrew Hillier is a mature student at the University of Bristol, having spent most of his career
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‘Shakespeare Lives through Kenneth Branagh on Stage and Screen’ Exhibition
‘Shakespeare Lives through Kenneth Branagh on Stage and Screen’ is on display in the Queen’s Film Theatre (QFT) Foyer until
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The Art of French Crime Fiction
Our new display, curated by Dr Dominique Jeannerod (School of Modern Languages), features an exhibition devoted to classic French
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