Feedback from the workshop was overwhelmingly positive, and a notable development was the formation of a network of practitioners who will meet twice yearly to further discuss this area in a specifically Irish context. This is particularly significant for the large number of archivists who work as lone practitioners within their organisations, that there is a professional and confidential space available to them to further explore empathetic archival practice, for both researcher and archivist alike.  Lisa Shortall MA in Archives and Records Management, UCD UCD School of History ..read more

The murder of the Weimar Republic’s foreign minister in western Berlin in the summer of 1922 is understood as a sign of German democracy’s weakness. When it is told it is recalled as a part of the history of the rise of the Nazis. By remembering it this way we also forget that in the days after his murder, just over a decade before Hitler became Chancellor, there was a mass outpouring of support for democracy, condemnation of antisemitism, and sympathy with Rathenau himself. Dr Mark Jones UCD School of History The murder of Walther Rathenau and the survival of Weimar democracy. Mark J ..read more

The network first started in 2019 and has grown steadily since then. Anyone who is doing any form of military welfare history, be that related to service personnel and their families, or anything relating to matters of medical provision or social policy, regardless of chronology or geographical location, please do get in touch with the Military Welfare History Network. Dr Paul Huddie UCD Conference Organiser Keynotes from the Military Welfare History Network 2023 Conference The first in-person meeting of the Military Welfare History Network took place in Sutherland School of Law, Un ..read more

In this podcast we want to share with you some of the stories of women you may have never heard of before, and think about how you too can go about discovering the afterlives and contributions of the women in your family, your community and in women’s organizations that you may belong to, so together we can celebrate and acknowledge the lives and afterlives of activist women in Ireland. Professor Caitríona Beaumont London South Bank University / Visiting full professor at UCD AFTERLIVES: Grannies, Guns, and Archives - Tracing revolutionary & post revolutionary women's lives Su ..read more

Writing LGBTQ histories from the medieval to the modern took place in the UCD School of History Seminar Room in March 2023. The event is now available as a podcast on History Hub. Michael Laffan Emeritus Professor Writing LGBTQ histories from the medieval to the modern On 8 March 2023, UCD School of History hosted ‘Writing LGBTQ histories from the medieval to the modern’. This event featured UCD historians Dr Elva Johnston, Dr Mary McAuliffe and Dr Fionnuala Walsh (Chair). The seminar is now available to podcast on our series on Apple, Spotify and Soundcloud. Writing LGBT historie ..read more

The key question the series grapples with is: what causes xenophobia? Dr Irial Glynn Series host, UCD School of History A History of Xenophobia interview series History Hub presents – A history of xenophobia: from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today – a series of interviews between our editor, Dr Irial Glynn, and a number of world-leading experts on the history of xenophobia. The key question the series grapples with is: what causes xenophobia? Why are certain people hostile towards or afraid of immigrants or of people who come from different cultural backgrounds? Doe ..read more

On the 9th of November 2022, Roger Moorhouse presented: ‘The Ładoś Group and the attempted rescue of Polish Jews’, a public lecture to coincide with the anniversary of the November Pogrom. The lecture took place in Trinity College Dublin and was co-organised by Holocaust Education Ireland, The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ireland, UCD School of History, and TCD School of Histories and Humanities. The Ładoś Group Roger Moorhouse is a historian and author, specialising in Nazi Germany, Central Europe and World War Two in Europe. A visiting professor at the College of Europe in ..read more

On 6 October 2022 Dr. Hájková came to UCD to give a lecture jointly organised by University College Dublin Centre for War Studies, Holocaust Education Ireland and the UCD History Seminar Series in Gender History. In her talk she explored the intersection of queer and Holocaust history through the example of an enforced relationship between two women, a guard and a Jewish woman, in a concentration camp in winter 1945. Sexuality in the Holocaust Dr Anna Hájková is Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History at the University of Warwick. Her work examines concentration c ..read more

The annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference welcomes established academics, early stage and independent researchers, as well as postgraduates from Ireland and beyond to present their research in a genuinely collegial environment. Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference Podcasts The annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference welcomes established academics, early stage and independent researchers, as well as postgraduates from Ireland and beyond to present their research in a genuinely collegial environment. The Tudor and Stuart I ..read more

The workshop brought together scholars from across Ireland, UK and Europe working in Chinese History, Gender Studies and Translation Studies. It aimed to shed light on the lives of Chinese interpreters who conveyed to non-Chinese knowledge of Chinese culture, language, politics, and society across Chinese history. Jennifer Bond and Yanli Xie Workshop Organisers Interpreting China On 16-17 June 2022 a workshop entitled Interpreting China: Engendering Transnational Dialogues was held at University College Dublin Humanities Institute and online. The workshop was organised by Dr. Yanli Xi ..read more