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History Hub Ulster
Available inEnglish
Founded2014
Headquarters
Belfast
,
Northern Ireland
Area servedNorthern Ireland
Founder(s)Karen O'Rawe
ChairmanGavin Bamford
URLhttps://historyhubulster.co.uk/

History Hub Ulster (HHU), referred to simply as the History Hub, is a research group, news blog, video creator, archivist, content writer and book publisher based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1][2][3] The History Hub Ulster was founded by Karen O’Rawe.[4] They engage in the local community on social media and hold outdoor events by

hosting interviews and working on various projects.[5][6][7] Research topics include WWI, WWII, Titanic, cemetery history and family history involving the events of the people of Ulster.[8][9][10][11] Various books on these topics have been published by History Hub Ulster. They are also a publisher for the War Memorials Trust.[12][13] It also acts as an index for the Imperial War Museum.[14][15] HHU have provided previously missing historical information in Ulster.

Nigel Henderson created the Great War Ulster Newspaper Archive.[16] It is an active project, with contents containing over 16,000 historical photographs and documentation as a database and repository.[17][18] In 2017, it was used to help produce Murphy's Winnie and George:: An Unlikely Union,[19] and a source for pages such as The Belfast Shipyard, and newspapers, like News Letter and Belfast Telegraph.[20][21][22][23][24]

History Hub Ulster are archivist patrons for the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.[25][26][27] HHU provided documentation and papers for PRONI's Belfast Jewish Heritage Project archive.[28][29][30]

History

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In July 2014, History Hub Ulster created their first articles, documenting events around Belfast, such as "Candlelight Vigil Belfast".[31]

In 2016, the Karen O'Rawe and the group contributed and supported the complexities behind the Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries: The Loyalist Backlash by Gareth Mulvenna.[32][33]

In May 2016, HHU had created a record of information for Ulster WWI Sailors project.[34][35]

In 2017, the group covered the Ballymena Family History Fair.[36]

Nigel Henderson's created a project known as Belfast Presbyterians in the Great War. His studies were used and he had become a contributor to News Letter.[37][38]

In 2018 History Hub Ulster contributed to The Obscure Heroes of Liberty - The Belgian People who Aided Escaped Allied Soldiers During the Great War 1914-1918 by Kenneth M. Baker.[39]

From 2018 to 2022, Peter McCabe wrote a number of cemetery history books, Belfast City Cemetery, A Guide to Dundonald Cemetery, and 2020 - 20 graves in each of 20 different local cemetery, and Roselawn 2021 - A Guide to Roselawn Cemetery.[40][41][42][43] McCabe's interest in cemetery history has stinted from his own research, and undertaking in educational tours around cemeteries.[44][45][46] McCabe has researched local family history, such as the Kelly Family, of John Kelly Limited.[47]

In 2018, HHU completed the RAF 100 project. This project's aim was to contribute and commemorate the people and events from the Royal Flying Corps then the Royal Airforce in WWI.[48] It was celebrated by the RAF at St. Anne's Cathedral, Belfast to mark 100 years of the RAF.

In 2019, History Hub Ulster participated in the Great War Gaeilgeoirí of East Belfast project, highlighting Irish-speaking soldiers from East Belfast in WWI.[49]

In 2021 and 2022, the HHU have been working with the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council to retrieve and add missing names from Ballymena’s WWII Memorial located in the Memorial Park. It is known as the Ballymena WW2 War Memorial Names Project.[50][51] After research and successful completion, letter cutters led by Harry Brockway managed to successfully hand cut all 172 of the missing names within six weeks. Work was completed in time for the rededication ceremony at the Memorial Park.[52][53]

In 2024, Nigel Henderson presented to the Training for Women Network as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund project ‘Remembering Ordinary Women in WWI’.[54]

Books published

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  • McCabe, Peter, 2020, Belfast, Northern Ireland, History Hub Ulster, 2021
  • McCabe, Peter, A Guide to Dundonald Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, History Hub Ulster, 2020
  • McCabe Peter, Belfast City Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, History Hub Ulster, 2018
  • Graham, Richard, Cleaver of Dunraven: A Family History, Northern Ireland, History Hub Ulster, 2017
  • Edgar, Richard, Higginson, Clive, Lurgan Heroes - The World War Two Roll of Honour, Northern Ireland, History Hub Ulster, 2020
  • McCabe, Peter, Roselawn 2021, Belfast, Northern Ireland, History Hub Ulster, 2022
  • Henderson, Nigel Ulster Ulster War Memorials from History Hub Ulster, Northern Ireland, History Hub Ulster, 2018

Members

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Name Notes[55]
Karen O’Rawe Founder of History Hub Ulster
Gavin Bamford Chair
Catherine Burrell Treasurer / Secretary. Genealogical and WWI researcher
Eddie Connolly publications and communications
Nigel Henderson Writer
Mark McCrea
Faye Rice Castleton Lanterns Great War community project

Project Manager and researcher.

Michael Nugent Associate member
Peter McCabe Cemetery preservation and research, writer

References

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  1. ^ "About us". History Hub Ulster. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
  2. ^ "History Hub Ulster". The Irish News. June 9, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  3. ^ "History Hub Ulster Latest News". Farming Life. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  4. ^ "'I am not ashamed to say I had an abortion in my 30s - we can change the law here if we stand together'". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. October 3, 2016. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  5. ^ O'Rawe, Karen. "History Hub Ulster". CommunityNI. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
  6. ^ "Nigel Henderson Archives". History Hub Ulster. March 5, 2018. Archived from the original on May 18, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  7. ^ "NI Really Useful Family History Show | Europa Hotel Belfast". NIFHS.org. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  8. ^ "Untold stories of the horrors of war to mark Somme centenary". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. June 9, 2016. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  9. ^ "Descendants of Irish sailors in First World War sought to mark Battle of Jutland". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. December 25, 2015. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  10. ^ "History Hub Ulster walking tour around a 17-acre colony with 146 dwellings off Belfast's Cregagh Road". Belfast News Letter. July 8, 2023. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  11. ^ "Photos, cars and stamps mark NI's centenary and bicentenary". Belfast News Letter. May 26, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  12. ^ "War Memorials Trust". www.warmemorials.org. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  13. ^ "Roamer column: World War One memorials destroyed in WWII's blitzed churches". Belfast News Letter. April 13, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  14. ^ "Joanmount - WW2 Roll Of Honour". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  15. ^ "Newtownbreda Presbyterian Roll of Honour WW1". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  16. ^ "Lisburn and the Great War Database". Lisburn and the Great War (WWI): Research Project. Archived from the original on October 3, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  17. ^ "Cookstown's War Dead - Acknowledgements". www.cookstownwardead.co.uk. Archived from the original on September 16, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  18. ^ "Eddies Extracts - Portstewart Roll of Honour December 1915". eddiesextracts.com. Archived from the original on December 10, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  19. ^ Tang, Jasmine Kar (April 20, 2017). ""A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package"". University of Illinois Press. doi:10.5406/illinois/9780252037832.003.0010.
  20. ^ "Sources of Information". The Belfast Shipyard. Archived from the original on August 19, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  21. ^ "Archive details local heroes of Great War". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. August 28, 2017. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  22. ^ "Belfast Battle of the Somme commemoration to be held on Friday". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2022. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  23. ^ "Dedicated following of fashion starting with label on vintage dress". Belfast News Letter. July 28, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  24. ^ "Story of Belfast nurse lost to pneumonia in Great War echoes down years". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. April 20, 2020. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  25. ^ "PRONI Archives". History Hub Ulster. May 25, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  26. ^ "Web Archive - Internet Archive". webarchive.proni.gov.uk. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  27. ^ "Links". Community Relations Council. February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  28. ^ "Web Archive - Internet Archive". webarchive.proni.gov.uk. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  29. ^ "Northern Ireland Jewish Heritage - Hidden Treasures". Hidden Treasures. Archived from the original on December 30, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  30. ^ "Archive-It - The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)". archive-it.org. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  31. ^ "July 2014". History Hub Ulster. July 31, 2014. Archived from the original on May 25, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  32. ^ Mulvenna, Gareth (January 1, 2017). Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-78138-326-1.
  33. ^ "RHC". Balaclava Street. July 15, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  34. ^ "Ulster WW1 Sailors". History Hub Ulster. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  35. ^ "In pictures: World War One's Irish sailors". BBC News. May 31, 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  36. ^ Girola, Stefano (April 3, 2017). "From Spanish and Irish roots". History Australia. 14 (2): 298–301. doi:10.1080/14490854.2017.1321083. ISSN 1449-0854.
  37. ^ "Belfast war memorial rediscovered but others are sadly still missing". Belfast News Letter. September 9, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  38. ^ "Remembering local VC heroes from the Indian mutiny of 1857". Belfast News Letter. October 22, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  39. ^ Baker, Kenneth M. (2018). The Obscure Heroes of Liberty - The Belgian People who Aided Escaped Allied Soldiers During the Great War 1914-1918. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-0-473-45187-5.
  40. ^ "Digging up the past at Belfast's City Cemetery". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. December 6, 2018. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  41. ^ "2020 by Peter McCabe | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  42. ^ "Roselawn 2021 by Peter McCabe | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  43. ^ "Lost lives live on in Peter McCabe's book of Belfast headstones". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. June 9, 2022. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  44. ^ "Explore Belfast with an EastSide Local | Visit EastSide". www.visiteastside.com. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  45. ^ "Peter McCabe takes us on a tour of Roselawn Cemetery | Visit EastSide". www.visiteastside.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  46. ^ Young, David (January 4, 2020). "New book on Belfast Cemetery tells stories of fascinating locals". Belfast Live. Archived from the original on September 20, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  47. ^ Peter McCabe's Memorable Memorials (September 11, 2022). Sir Samuel Kelly DL CBE Coal Boat Magnate BORN 1867 DIED 9 FEB 1937. Retrieved January 31, 2025 – via YouTube.
  48. ^ "RAF 100". History Hub Ulster. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  49. ^ "Credits – Great War Gaeilgeoirí of East Belfast". Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  50. ^ hhulster (September 21, 2021). "Ballymena WW2 War Memorial Names Project - Public Call". History Hub Ulster. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  51. ^ "Appeal to public for missing WW2 names on Ballymena Memorial". NorthernIrelandWorld. October 4, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  52. ^ "Ballymena and District's War Memorial". Cliveden Conservation. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  53. ^ Blackadder, Dessie (June 23, 2021). "Council to begin search for World War 2 missing memorial names". www.ballymenaguardian.co.uk. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  54. ^ "Training for Women Network - People from East Belfast who served in World War One". www.twnonline.com. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
  55. ^ "Members". History Hub Ulster. Archived from the original on May 18, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
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