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JOANNA BOURKE

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Here are my latest blogs! Enjoy.


The Lurgan Mechanics’ Institute
In 1859, the Lurgan Mechanics’ Institute was formally inaugurated, ‘in the presence of one of the largest and most fashionable...
3 days ago32 min read
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SHaME: Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters
For five and a half years, I have been privileged to work with the SHaME team at Birkbeck. It has been the most intellectually rewarding...
Apr 24, 20241 min read
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Marianne Elliott: Inspirations Series
Marianne Elliott is one of the greatest living historians of Ireland, with books that have changed the way we think about revolution and...
Feb 6, 20246 min read
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Helena Kennedy: Inspirations Series
Kennedy’s great passion is for law. She was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1972. At the age of only 24 years, just out of pupillage,...
Feb 6, 20245 min read
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Judith Butler: Inspirations Series
Judith Pamela Butler is the most widely read philosopher on the planet and the most influential voice in contemporary gender theory....
Feb 6, 20245 min read
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Marai Larasi: Inspirations Series
‘If we are to end violence against women and girls, we need to create seismic shifts across our social norms’. So says Marai Larasi,...
Feb 6, 20245 min read
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What is a University? Birkbeck College
Walking into the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution (as it was then called) in the 1890s could be a dispiriting experience....
Feb 5, 20244 min read
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