Maps and Atlases in Special Collections: An Overview
About the Collections Special Collections holds 3 core map collections. Ewart Map Collection The Ewart Map Collection, ca 1567-1896, houses
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The Special Collections Blog brings you news of developments, exhibitions and events in Special Collections. Treasures from our collections are also highlighted.
In Search of Sir Robert Hart; from Portadown to China
With thanks to Katie Leeper, who is undertaking an MA in Public History at Queen’s University Belfast, for this guest
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‘Dear Mother, Dear Father’: Legation Letters Home
The following guest blog post is by Dr. Andrew Hillier, Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol. A trunkful of papers
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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 Memoirs of Arthur O’Neill (MS 4/14/1)
We are delighted to present the newest addition to Digital Special Collections & Archives: The Memoirs of Arthur O’Neill (MS4/14/1).
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Remembering Bunting Festival, 8-10th February 2019
We were delighted to be asked by Dún Uladh to participate in the Remembering Bunting Festival this year. A weekend of
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Persian Treasures
The following guest blog post is by Mandana Mashayekhi Ghoyonloo, a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. The
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October in the Palm House
If you have ever wandered through the Palm House in Belfast’s Botanic Gardens, you may have come across this hanging
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A Literary Treasure – “The Belfast Group”
About the Group Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005) was a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Queen’s University Belfast between 1962
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Crying for Elysium: stories, poems, essays
“The primary impulse of the artist springs, I fancy, from discontent, and his art is a kind of crying for
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