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Local history, land and buildings

Speakers talk on various aspects of local history, land and buildings.

Local People and Places

  • Plantation Families - Part 1
  • Plantation Families - Part 2
  • Experiences of the Poor and Excluded
  • Prisons, Asylums and Workhouses: Institutions in Ireland - Part 1
  • Prisons, Asylums and Workhouses: Institutions in Ireland - Part 2
  • The 1641 Depositions - Part 1
  • The 1641 Depositions - Part 2
  • The 1641 Depositions - Part 3
  • Londonderry Papers
  • Mount Stewart and Beyond: The Photographic Collection
  • The River Bann: A View from the Archives
  • The Staples Family and Lissan House, County Tyrone
  • The Limestone Town of Glenarm: Quarries and Quarrymen
  • Ballintoy Project: How to Organise a Local History Group
  • William Bald and the Making of the Antrim Coast Road
  • The Work of the Armagh Coroner, 1888-1889
  • Steelboys, Oakboys and Bad Boys: Disturbances in County Armagh
  • The Buildings of County Armagh
  • Bogs, Battles and Barges: The Newry Canal
  • Knocknamuckly: The Story of an Armagh Townland
  • Everyday Life in the Irish Borderlands
  • Cold War Heritage in Northern Ireland
  • Cures and Treatment of Spanish Influenza in Ireland
  • Putting Children First: The Presbyterian Children's Society

Maps and Landscape

  • Drawn from Our Land: Revealing Maps From the Collections
  • A Digital Landscape: Exploring Digital Map Applications
  • Our Place on the World Map, 1000-1600
  • Maps from Snaps: Mapping and Aerial Photography - Part 1
  • Maps from Snaps: Mapping and Aerial Photography - Part 2
  • Understanding an Ancestor's Neighbourhood - Part 1
  • Understanding an Ancestor's Neighbourhood - Part 2
  • Understanding an Ancestor's Neighbourhood - Part 3
  • Understanding an Ancestor's Neighbourhood - Part 4
  • Understanding an Ancestor's Neighbourhood - Part 5

Local Archives Unlocked

  • Prison Records at PRONI
  • Photographic Collections at PRONI
  • 800 Years of PRONI's Oldest Document
  • The Pursuit and Practice of Local History

Belfast

  • Exploring Victorian Belfast: People, Place and History
  • Building Belfast City Hall
  • Serving Belfast: Municiple Services Since 1613 
  • Local Administration in Belfast Since 1613
  • Improving Belfast: A Glimpse of Belfast in 1911
  • Belfast Corporation and the Management of Public Health, 1880-1914
  • Surviving the City: The Belfast Corporation Archive in PRONI
  • Researching Cemeteries with Tom Hartley
  • History of Belfast City Cemetery
  • History of Milltown Cemetery
  • The Bank Buildings
  • The Big Houses of East Belfast

Exploring Local History

  • Introduction - Part 1
  • Introduction - Part 2
  • Introduction - Part 3
  • Introduction - Part 4
  • Introduction - Part 5
  • Introduction - Part 6
  • Poverty - Part 1
  • Poverty - Part 2
  • Poverty - Part 3
  • Poverty - Part 4
  • Poverty - Part 5
  • Industrialisation - Part 1
  • Industrialisation - Part 2
  • Industrialisation - Part 3
  • Industrialisation - Part 4
  • Industrialisation - Part 5
  • Religion - Part 1
  • Religion - Part 2
  • Religion - Part 3
  • Religion - Part 4
  • Religion - Part 5
  • Crime - Part 1
  • Crime - Part 2
  • Crime - Part 3
  • Crime - Part 4
  • Crime - Part 5
  • Crime - Part 6
  • Urban History - Part 1
  • Urban History - Part 2
  • Urban History - Part 3
  • Urban History - Part 4
  • Urban History - Part 5
  • Urban History - Part 6
  • Families - Part 1
  • Families - Part 2
  • Families - Part 3
  • Families - Part 4
  • Families - Part 5

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