Dr. Olwen Purdue is a historian of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, focusing on the British and Irish industrial city and on issues of social inequalities, welfare, and public health. She was co-investigator of the AHRC project “Welfare and Public Health in Belfast 1800-1972” and is currently writing a monograph entitled Spaces of Engagement: Families and Welfare in Industrial Belfast 1880-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).
Dr. Purdue also works on contested public history, heritage, and Irish country houses and landed estates.
Thursday, March 21 | 5 to 7 PM
Boston University College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B36 |
| When |
Thursday, Mar 21, 2019
at 5:00pm
until 7:00pm
on Thursday, Mar 21, 2019
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