Listen back to QUB conference on Cross Currents in British and Irish Working Class Life

A research group from QUB’s Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities (ICRH) hosted a conference today to look at Cross Currents in British and Irish Working Class Life. Alongside the talks were songs, films and plenty of debate. All the presentations and panels are now online … and you can look back at images, quotes and photos in tweets from the conference that were tagged with the #WorkingClassLife hashtag. Graham Walker opened the conference. Sophie Long introduced the opening …

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Reliving the DeLorean experience in Belfast…

Duncan Campbell’s 2009 short film ‘Make it new John’ is on at Belfast Exposed on Thursday night. The archive footage is almost enough to make you crave for early 80s Belfast when the cars rolled daily down the Donegall Road on their way to export from the docks. Much rarer than an 1950s Morris Minor, you can still buy one (when they come in), or have your old one serviced from the new DMC. But even the parts will cost …

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Photograph of the Day – Zadoc Nava

The exhibition comprises photographs from a number of visits to Iran, in particular the capital Tehran and offers an insight into life in Iran. It’s an interesting exhibition and highlights tensions between the old and the new. Speaking with Zadoc he told me that whilst there was no real problem taking photographs(as ever common sense needs to be applied when shooting on the street) he did get arrested once. I think there is a resonance between the political and religious …

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