Centenary Historical Advisory Panel
(asked on 9th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government who are the members of the Northern Ireland Centenary Historical Advisory Panel; and which organisations these members represent.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 16th November 2020
The establishment of the Centenary Historical Advisory Panel was announced by the Prime Minister in August. This Panel will provide advice to the Centenary Forum, and to the Government, on the historical facts of the centenary, and its work will be guided by the Principles for Remembering. The composition of the Centenary Historical Advisory Panel was confirmed in a press notice published on 9 October:
The composition of the Panel is shown below:
- Professor Lord Bew MRIA, Emeritus Professor, Queen’s University Belfast
- Dr Brian Barton, FRHistS, Independent Historian
- Dr Marie Coleman, FRHistS, SFHEA, Reader in Modern Irish History, Queen’s University Belfast
- Dr Niamh Gallagher, Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. Catharine’s College
- Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Sheffield
- Dr Margaret O’Callaghan, Reader in History and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast
- Professor Henry Patterson, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Ulster
- Professor Graham Walker, Professor of Political History, Queen’s University Belfast