Dr Marie Coleman Undergraduate History dissertation co-ordinator

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Digitisation of primary sources and the History undergraduate dissertation Dr Marie Coleman Undergraduate History dissertation co-ordinator School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

QUB History dissertation Compulsory for SH Optional for JH but taken by most 120-130 students annually 10,000-14,000 words Double module in semester 2 2007: stand-alone dissertation introduced and opened beyond SH students

Success of stand-alone dissertation National prize winners History of Parliament prize for best u/g dissertation in Irish or British political history - Ryan McCourt (2011): ‘Ernest Blythe as Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State’ (subsequently published as an article in Parliamentary History) - Jonathan Hayes (2013): ‘The organisation and effectiveness of war pensions administration in Northern Ireland, 1921-39’ British Commission for Maritime History, undergraduate achievement in maritime history - Ryan Charteris (2010): ‘Sir Thomas Lipton and the Americas Cup’ - Joshua Montague-Munson (2011): @The early years of the South Sea Company’

Digitisation of primary sources www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie http://www.militaryarchives.ie/e n/collections/online- collections/military-service- pensions-collection http://www.census.nationalarchi ves.ie/ Irish revolution

First World War records Digitised Australian attestation papers: https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au

First World War records Canadian Expeditionary Force digitized records: http://www.bac- lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914- 1918-cef/pages/search.aspx

Medieval illuminated manurscipts Book of Kells http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/h ome/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_ 003v Royal Irish Academy Irish Script Onscreen https://www.isos.dias.ie/ The Cathach (Psalter of St Columba, AD 560-600)

Newspapers

Political Archives Digital Churchill Archive: https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/churchill-papers/ Thatcher Foundation Archives: http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/

Political archives