News & Events

Images from Seminar at Moot Court, 9 June 2017… Read More →

The QUOTE hub, in association with the School of Law’s Human Rights Centre, and the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security & Justice would like to invite you to attend a lunchtime seminar at the Law School’s Moot Court on… Read More →

The Copyright Cortex is a new innovative online resource concerned with copyright and digital cultural heritage. A collaboration between Queen’s University Belfast and CREATe at the University of Glasgow, the Copyright Cortex will become the principal point of reference for… Read More →

   Una Duffy (Heritage Lottery Fud) Una explained the HLF’s role in funding community based oral history projects and welcomed the arrival of QUOTE as a resource through which to enable the development of ambitious projects in the future. We… Read More →

Four PhD students working on oral history projects at Queen’s met with BBC Radio Producers on March 31st, to pitch ideas for radio documentaries. Jack Crangle, Pete Hodson, Sam Manning and Rachel Wallace impressed the BBC Panel of Conor Garrett,… Read More →

The Linen Hall Library is preparing to launch a major new digital archive in January 2018. The ‘Divided Society’ resource will collect together over 700 periodicals published between 1990 – 1998 focused on the Northern Irish conflict and peace process.… Read More →

Anna Bryson and Ronan Deazley have been working with NICIE on their new HLF-funded Oral History project, ‘The Big Small Stories: Exploring and Uncovering Cultural and Social Heritage of Integrated Education’. The project concerns and commemorates the 35th anniversary of… Read More →

Come join us to celebrate the official launch of QUOTE: Queen’s University Oral History, Technology & Ethics. Professor Sean O’Connell and Dr Anna Bryson will start the evening by introducing the aims and ambitions of the QUOTE initiative. Following Sean… Read More →

Issue 45.1 of the journal Oral History will be published this month. It is edited by QUOTE’s Sean O’Connell and features Northern Ireland updates from Anna Bryson and Ronan Deazley. Among the issue’s highlights are an article by Alexander Freund… Read More →

In Autumn 2016, 15 Queen’s History undergraduate students carried out interviews on the theme of Everyday life during the Troubles. Their aim was to gather testimony to assist curators at the Ulster Museum, who are in the process of re-vamping… Read More →

Ronan Deazley presents on a number of issues concerning how copyright impacts the use, reuse and online accessibility of archive film collections. The event was organised by the Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland.… Read More →

Anna Bryson and Ronan Deazley from QUOTE have been liaising with the Ballinascreen Commemoration Committee regarding a new community-based oral history project. The committee was interested in exploring the possibility of increasing local access to the Fr Louis O’Kane oral… Read More →

Launch of the first major UK study concerning the concept of diligent search since the introduction of the EU Orphan Works Directive and the UK’s Orphan Works Licensing Scheme. Further details are available on Eventbrite.… Read More →

A half-day training event on the digitisation and use of photographs in archive and other research-related projects. Further details are available on Evenbrite.… Read More →

TheatreNI in partnership with Dance Resource Base and Queen’s University Belfast are delighted to present this in-depth and practical training focusing on intellectual property rights in theatre and dance. Further details are available at TheatreNI website.… Read More →

This event has been organised for the Private Collections team at PRONI only. It is not open to the public.… Read More →

This event has been organised for the Private Collections team at PRONI only. It is not open to the public.… Read More →

Sean spoke about his own use of oral history across a quarter of a century, highlighting the contribution it had made to his research and in his teaching.… Read More →

Open to the public.… Read More →

Sean’s paper argued for the important role of oral history and storytelling in engaging with a wider range of topics and the audiences that are attracted to those topics – further information.… Read More →

The Heritage Lottery Fund has just approved funding for “Reflected Lives” – an intergenerational oral history project that will capture testimonies from residents of a number of Belfast interface communities, separated by security barriers or “peace walls”. Anna Bryson co-wrote… Read More →

This workshop was provided at the invitation of the Maghera Historical Society (MHS). It focused on their new project ‘Maghera Roots: The Heritage of Farming in Maghera during the 1940s, 50s and 60.’ Topics covered included: opportunities and challenges associated… Read More →

The event promotes dialogue between academic uses of oral history and the role of public history as reflected in radio documentary. Students taking part in the workshop will return to the BBC, in the New Year, to pitch their own… Read More →

Open to the public.… Read More →

Open to the public. Other speakers at the event included Graham Smith (Chair of the Oral History Society) and Arthur McIvor (Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre).… Read More →