'Life in "Linenopolis": a social history of Victorian Belfast', by Dr Alice Johnson

25feb7:00 pm8:00 pm'Life in "Linenopolis": a social history of Victorian Belfast', by Dr Alice Johnson

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The first of our 2025 Talks Programme at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum …

This talk focuses on the people who shaped the fastest-growing city in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland – the place that was known as ‘Linenopolis’, ‘The Manchester of Ireland’, and ‘The Northern Athens’. Booming from the linen industry, Belfast in the 1800s has been neglected by social historians. However, this talk is based on research that has given a fresh and original insight on the history of Ulster’s capital and Irish history in general. The speaker has made a substantial contribution to British and Irish urban history by reconstructing the social and cultural world of an industrial city’s upper middle classes between the 1830s and the 1880s.

Dr Alice Johnson is Head of History at Belfast Metropolitan College and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast. A social and cultural historian of nineteenth-century Ireland, her publication on Middle-class life in Victorian Belfast (2020) has been reviewed as ‘a significant and valuable contribution to the … historiography of the city’.

Our talks are free and in person, and take place in the museum’s historic Assembly Room. Booking is required. Doors open at 6.30pm for tea and coffee on arrival, and talks start promptly at 7pm. Please note there is no allocated seating for this event.

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Time

25th February 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT+00:00)

Location

Irish Linen Centre Lisburn Museum

Market Square, Lisburn BT28 1AG

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