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

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

3. 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, ’ British Commission for Maritime History, undergraduate achievement in maritime history - Ryan Charteris (2010): ‘Sir Thomas Lipton and the Americas Cup’ - Joshua Montague-Munson early years of the South Sea Company’

4. Digitisation of primary sources
n/collections/online- collections/military-service- pensions-collection
ves.ie/
Irish revolution

5. First World War records
Digitised Australian attestation papers:

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

7. Medieval illuminated manurscipts
Book of Kells ome/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_ 003v
Royal Irish Academy Irish Script Onscreen
The Cathach (Psalter of St Columba, AD )

8. Newspapers

9. Political Archives Digital Churchill Archive:
Thatcher Foundation Archives:

10. Political archives