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Robyn Atcheson BA, MA, PhD

Fee £100.00 (concession rate £80.00) - fee will amend when you select the appropriate fee rate below.

Autumn 2025

10 weekly sessions on Thursdays 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm, starting 25 September

Belfast’s history is full of women who refused to conform to society’s expectations.This course delves into the lives of these women and how they changed the world around them.Each week we will look at one remarkable woman and explore the issues she cared about.Not only will you learn more about these individual lives but you will also gain a wider understanding of life in nineteenth-century Belfast and beyond.This course uses contemporary sources to recreate the often-hidden lives of women.It will also look at the circumstances within Belfast which offered such an abundant ground for radical women and their ideas.

This class will take place on QUB campus

No class on Thursday 6 November

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