HistoryHub
Connecting past and present
This section works for a better and more informed public policy through a more nuanced understanding of history. The papers demonstrate the importance of history to policymaking and provide a forum through which current historical research can influence policymakers.
In a podcast for the History Hub.ie podcast series, Dr Christopher Prior (University of Southampton) looks at British society after World War II. Dr Prior is the author of Exporting Empire: Africa, colonial officials and the construction of the British imperial state, c.1900-1939 (Manchester University Press).
In a podcast for the History Hub.ie podcast series Dr Sarah Campbell (Newcastle University) explores why there was a civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and why the movement occurred in the 1960’s and not before.
In a podcast for the History Hub.ie podcast series, Dr Irial Glynn (UCC) discusses current Irish emigration from a historical perspective by comparing and contrasting it with what occurred in the 1950’s and 1980’s, decades which also saw large numbers depart.
Dr Sarah Campbell’s paper draws on social movement theory, and examines protest movements in the twentieth century to see what lessons the Occupy movement in Ireland can learn from history, particularly the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, in developing its future strategy.
