Projects per year
Abstract
This short documentary film explores the history of welfare in Belfast in the light of contemporary issues surrounding migration, welfare reform, ideas of deservingness and what constitutes basic needs. The documentary has been taken up by the BBC and is hosted on their website. I have also given an interview on my research on the Sunday Sequence programme
| Original language | English |
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| Media of output | Online |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- poverty
- Welfare
- migration
- Welfare reform
- belfast
- poor law
- workhouse
- ireland
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R1047HIS: Welfare and public health in Belfast and the north of Ireland 1800 -1973
Gray, P., Atcheson, R., Laragy, G., Lucey, S., Purdue, O. & Purdue, O.
01/08/2011 → 31/10/2015
Project: Research
Prizes
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Vice Chancellor's Prize for Research Impact (shortlisted)
Purdue, Olwen (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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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 AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus)4778 Downloads (Pure) -
‘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
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Belfast, the emerging city: 1850-1914
Purdue, O. (ed.), Nov 2012, Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 304 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book