Radio glory!
On BBC NI Radio Ulster with John Campbell talking about my Drs/Disease tour and tours available in Belfast with fellow guides Andrew Johnston & Nuala Convery. The audio is below.
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Feed back from the NISF medical history tour
Second Diseases/Dr tour today for the NISF
Second of three Diseases/Drs walking (medical history of Belfast) tours as part of the 11th NI Science Festival delivered this morning ! Poor weather today, cold and wet!
First Diseases/Dr tour today for the NISF
First of three Diseases/Drs walking (medical history of Belfast) tours as part of the 11th NI Science Festival delivered this morning ! Great fun and the weather was kind!
Irish republican women in Ulster, 1914-1922 – Dr Margaret Ward
Latest episode of the Mentioned in Dispatches podcast that I host and produce for the Western Front Association is out! This week, Dr Margaret Ward, Honorary Senior Lecturer in History at Queen’s University Belfast, talks about her latest book Rebel Women: Cumann na…
Book Review: Tom Hartley, Balmoral Cemetery: The History of Belfast, Written in Stone (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2019)
Tom Hartley’s Balmoral Cemetery: The History of Belfast, Written in Stone is an exceptional study of one of Belfast’s lesser-known burial grounds. As the third instalment in his Written in Stone series—following Milltown Cemetery and City Cemetery—this book continues Hartley’s…
Exploring the Church of C.S. Lewis: NITGA CPD Trip to St Mark’s Dundella
Members of the Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association (NITGA) enjoyed a fascinating CPD trip to St Mark’s Dundella, a gem in East Belfast with a rich historical and literary connection. This beautiful church holds a special place in the hearts…
Places still left on my Anti Slavery Belfast open learning course at QUB starting on 22.1.25 for 10 weeks.
https://ecommerce.apps.qub.ac.uk/osol/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=108&products_id=1288&osCsid=4bv7k2ep4os9asst5cmeuthe57 This course explores Belfast’s involvement in the international transatlantic slave trade and its role as a centre of abolitionist agitation. It firstly examines how Belfast’s merchant classes in the mid-18th century were involved in trade with the slave plantations…
Last tour of the year
Out in grey Belfast leading a tour of the Troubles for a party from London.
Dates announced for Diseases/Drs walking tours as part of the 11th Northern Ireland Science Festival
