{"id":3978,"date":"2026-03-30T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:48:45","slug":"mcwilliams-collection-part-1-ms-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/mcwilliams-collection-part-1-ms-87\/","title":{"rendered":"McWilliams Collection Part 1 MS 87"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Special Collections is pleased to announce that Part 1 of the McWilliams Collection (MS 87) is now available for consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/image-1024x768.png\" alt=\"MS 87\/21\/3\/1 - NIWC Statement on decommissioning alongside annotated copy of same\" class=\"wp-image-3979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/image-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/image-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/image-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/image-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/image.png 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MS 87\/21\/3\/1 &#8211; <em>NIWC Statement on decommissioning alongside annotated copy of same<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special Collections is pleased to announce that Part 1 of the McWilliams Collection (MS 87) is now available for consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collection, which is a part of the Modern Political Collections project, is the first donation of personal papers from Monica McWilliams, Emeritus Professor in the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, co-founder of the Northern Ireland Women\u2019s Coalition, and human rights defender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1996, Monica McWilliams was elected to the Multi-Party Talks with the aim of bringing peaceful resolution to the period known as the Troubles, or Northern Ireland Conflict. This collection of personal papers offers unique insight into the Northern Ireland Peace Process, including documents relating to the pre-talks period, the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement 1998, and the process of implementing of the agreement during Professor McWilliams&#8217;s time as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/directorates\/InformationServices\/TheLibrary\/SpecialCollections\/FileStore\/MS%2087%20McWilliams1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">listing<\/a> of the McWilliams Collection can be found on the Special Collections webpages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collection can be consulted by appointment at Special Collections. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/directorates\/InformationServices\/TheLibrary\/SpecialCollections\/ContactUs\/\">contact us<\/a> to arrange consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections is pleased to announce that Part 1 of the McWilliams Collection (MS 87) is now available for consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,4],"tags":[221,271,224,222,223],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-manuscript-collections","tag-modern-political-collections","tag-multi-party-talks-1996-1998","tag-northern-ireland-conflict","tag-peace-and-reconciliation","tag-the-troubles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8s7J-12a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}