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Janice Holmes (Professional Historian)
1995
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Email

janice[dot]e[dot]holmes[at]gmail[dot]com

Twitter link

@historyjanice

Bio

I am formerly Senior Lecturer in History at The Open University (UK) where I taught and researched modern British and Irish history. In 2018 I moved to Sweden where I am now an independent scholar and researcher.

My primary research focus for a long time was modern Irish religious history and I wrote on many aspects of the Irish Protestant experience, particularly female ministry and Irish evangelicalism, particularly Presbyterianism and Methodism. My most recent interest has been material culture within Belfast Presbyterian congregations.

Since 2019 I have become increasingly interested in Swedish nonconformity (“free church” or Sw. frikyrkorörelse) and the material culture of Swedish free church places of worship. I have written several articles on free church material practices and am currently working on a project related to free church “sanctuary paintings”.

 

Areas of expertise

19th and 20th century Irish social history
history of Irish religion, especially Protestantism, evangelicalism, female ministry, evangelism, Presbyterianism
local history of Ulster, especially Belfast, Antrim and Down
adult learners of history

Swedish nonconformity

religious material culture

Keywords

{religion}; {women}; {Ulster}; {local history}; {Protestant}; {skills}; {research}; {Northern Ireland}; {social history}; {19th century}

Member Details

Nickname

Janice Holmes (Professional Historian)

Membership Type

Professional Historian

Experience

Education

BA (Guelph, Canada), 1989
MA (Queen’s Kingston, Canada), 1991
PhD (Queen’s Belfast, Northern Ireland), 1995

Employment

Faculty of Arts Fellow (University College Dublin), 1994-96
Lecturer in History (University of Ulster Coleraine), 1997-2007
Senior Lecturer in History (The Open University, Belfast office), 2007-2019

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