Fellows Seminar- November 2020

On the 4th November 2020 we were joined by Hannah Telling (EHS Power Fellow) and Aoife O’Leary McNeice (Scouloudi Fellow) to present their papers on 19th century Ireland and Scotland.  The session was chaired by Dr Philip Carter, who is the Director of Digital and Publishing, and Senior Lecturer in British History at the IHR.

Hannah Telling, EHS Power Fellow (University of Glasgow)

Criminal Types: Gender, violence and society in Scotland, 1850-1914
Hannah Telling is a gender and social historian. Her research explores violence, law, and constructions of criminality in 19th century Scotland. Hannah is currently developing a monograph based on her doctoral thesis and further archival research into the judicial and cultural responses to female violence in Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th century. 

Aoife O’Leary McNeice, Scouloudi Fellow (University of Cambridge)

Global Humanitarianism and the Great Irish Famine, c.1845-1853
Aoife is a final year PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis examines global networks of humanitarianism during the Great Irish famine, focusing in particular on networks within the global Catholic Church, the British Empire, and transatlantic Quaker activism.