Olwen Purdue

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 N/A
Emailo.purduequb.acuk

Room 0G.002 - 25 University Square
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- The British and Irish industrial city 1850-1930
- Urban poverty and welfare 1850-1930
- Public history in divided societies
- Child and family welfare

Research activity per year

8 Article
6 Book
6 Chapter
4 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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29 results

2024
A tale of two cities: industrial Belfast in the nineteenth century
Purdue, O., 22 Feb 2024, (Accepted) Antrim history and society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county. Donnelly, C. & Murphy, E. (eds.). Dublin: Geography Publications
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Introduction: telling difficult histories in Ireland
Hannan, L. & Purdue, O., 27 Jun 2024, Public history in Ireland: difficult histories. Hannan, L. & Purdue, O. (eds.). Routledge, p. 1-21 (Global Perspectives on Public History).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
Our place, our stories: public history journeys from Belfast to Dhiban, and back
Purdue, O., Jan 2024, In: Curator: The Museum Journal. 67, 1, p. 255-267 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Poverty, children and the Poor Law in industrial Belfast, 1880-1918
Purdue, O. & Laragy, G., 02 Jan 2024, Liverpool University Press. 320 p. (Reappraisals in Irish History; vol. 17)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Public history in Ireland: difficult histories
Hannan, L. (Editor) & Purdue, O. (Editor), 28 Jun 2024, Routledge. 240 p. (Global Perspectives on Public History)
Research output: Book/Report › Edited book › peer-review
Remembering the violent past in ethnically divided societies
Balcells, L., Purdue, O. & Voytas, E., 01 Nov 2024, (Early online date) In: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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14 Downloads (Pure)
The future of the past: the Ulster Museum and social cohesion in post-conflict Northern Ireland
Blair, W. & Purdue, O., 27 Jun 2024, Public history in Ireland. Difficult histories. Hannan, L. & Purdue, O. (eds.). Routledge, p. 101-121 21 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2022
The first great charity of this town: Belfast Charitable Society and its role in the developing city
Purdue, O. (Editor), Nov 2022, Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 300 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Edited book › peer-review
‘Please pardon me for taking the liberty’: poverty letters as negotiating spaces in 1920s and 1930s Belfast and Dublin
Earner-Byrne, L. & Purdue, O., 18 Jun 2022, In: Cultural and Social History. 19, 5, p. 567-585 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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‘The price of our loyalty’: Ulster landlords, tenants and the Northern Ireland Land Act of 1925
Purdue, O., 01 Jan 2022, Land Reform in the British and Irish Isles Since 1800. Tindley, A., Evans, S. & McCarthy, T. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, p. 211-236 25 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Open Access
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41 Downloads (Pure)
2021
Imagining Belfast’s poor: Alexander Hogg’s photographs of Belfast
Wray, L. & Purdue, O., Dec 2021, (In preparation) Representing Belfast's pasts. Gillespie, R. & Wright, J. J. (eds.). Dublin : Four Courts Press, 25 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Troubling Pasts: Teaching Public History in Northern Ireland
Purdue, O., 14 Jul 2021, In: International Public History. 4, 1, p. 67-75 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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2 Citations (Scopus)

138 Downloads (Pure)
2020

Dealing with difficult pasts: the role of public history in post-conflict Northern Ireland
Purdue, O., 01 Sept 2020, In: Studia Hibernica. 46, 1, p. 91-97 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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645 Downloads (Pure)
Nineteenth-century NIMBYs, or What the Neighbour Saw? Poverty, surveillance, and the boarding-out of Poor Law Children in late nineteenth-century Belfast
Purdue, O., 08 Oct 2020, In: Family and Community History. 23, 2, p. 119-135 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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150 Downloads (Pure)
2018
Urban Spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland
Purdue, O., Wright, J. & Laragy, G., 2018, Liverpool University Press. 250 p. (Studies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
‘High walls and locked doors’: contested spaces in Belfast workhouse 1880 - 1905
Purdue, O., 2018, Irish Urban Spaces in the Nineteenth Century. Purdue, O., Laragy, G. & Wright, J. (eds.). Liverpool University Press, p. 106-124 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2017
Belfast: a tale of two cities
Purdue, O. (Producer) & Patterson, G. (Other), 2017
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Surviving the industrial city: the female poor and the workhouse in late nineteenth-century Belfast
Purdue, O., Feb 2017, In: Urban History. 44, 1, p. 69-90 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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5 Citations (Scopus)

5313 Downloads (Pure)
2015
Surviving the City: poverty and public health in Belfast 1880-1914
Purdue, O. (Designer), 2015
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

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156 Downloads (Pure)
2014

‘A Gigantic System of Casual Pauperism’: the Contested Role of the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth-Century Belfast
Purdue, O., May 2014, The Welfare State and the 'Deviant Poor' in Europe, 1870-1933. Althammer, B., Gestrich, A. & Gründler, J. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 42-57 16 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2012
Belfast, the emerging city: 1850-1914
Purdue, O. (Editor), Nov 2012, Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 304 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
The Irish Lord Lieutenancy c. 1541-1922
Gray, P. (Editor) & Purdue, O. (Editor), 26 Nov 2012, Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 256 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2011
'Ascendency's ... last big jamboree': Big house society in Northern Ireland 1921-69
Purdue, O., Jun 2011, The Irish Country House, its past, present and future: its past, present and future. Dooley, T. & Ridgeway, C. (eds.). Dublin: Four Courts Press, p. 134-149 15 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Poor relief in the north of Ireland 1850-1921
Purdue, O., 2011, Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 1838-1948. Crossman, V. & Gray, P. (eds.). Dublin: Irish Academic Press, p. 23-36 13 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Poverty and power: the Irish Poor Law in a north Antrim town 1861-1921
Purdue, O., Nov 2011, In: Irish Historical Studies. 37, 148, p. 567-583
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus)
2010

Sources for the History of the Irish Poor Law in the Post-Famine Period
Purdue, O., 2010, Visual, material and print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland. Breathnach, C. & Lawless, C. (eds.). Dublin: Four Courts Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2009
The Big House in the North of Ireland: Land, Power and Social Elites, 1878-1960
Purdue, O., Jun 2009, UCD Press. 320 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2007

“Attacked from without and diseased from within”? Northern Ireland's landed class 1921-60’
Purdue, O., 2007, A Further Shore: Essays in Irish and Scottish Studies. Morin, C., Agnew, E., Magennis, C. & Hughes, E. (eds.). Aberdeen University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2005

THe MacGeough Bonds of the Argory: an Ulster gentry family 1880-1950
Purdue, O., 2005, Four Courts Press. 64 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book

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