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Brian Barton worked as an Open University Associate Lecturer in History in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison and in Maghaberry Magilligan Portlaoise and Limerick Prisons from 1995-2000. He tutored with The Open University on Twentieth Century European History courses from 1995 until 2015. He completed an MA at the University of Ulster in the early 1970s and a PhD from Queen’s University in the 1980s and taught in the Belfast Institute of Higher Education for approximately twenty-five years before retiring in 1994 to develop his writing of books on Irish History. Brain has published several critically acclaimed books on Irish ...History notably on the Somme the 1916 Easter Rising and the Belfast Blitz in World War II.
Brian Barton worked as an Open University Associate Lecturer in History in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison and in Maghaberry Magilligan Portlaoise and Limerick Prisons from 1995-2000. He tutored with The Open University on Twentieth Century European History courses from 1995 until 2015. He completed an MA at the University of Ulster in the early 1970s and a PhD from Queen’s University in the 1980s and taught in the Belfast Institute of Higher Education for approximately twenty-five years before retiring in 1994 to develop his writing of books on Irish History. Brain has published several critically acclaimed books on Irish ...History notably on the Somme the 1916 Easter Rising and the Belfast Blitz in World War II.
| Title: | Reflections on Teaching World War Two History in the H Blocks |
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| Description: | Brian Barton reflects on tutoring ‘War Peace and Social Change: Europe 1900-1955’ with Republican students in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in the 1990s; student attitudes to causes of World War Two anti-English sentiment in essays and reactions to his opposition to physical force in Irish politics. | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Brian Barton |
| Duration: | 00:02:22 |
| Master programe code and title: | Brian Barton Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:30:54 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:33:38 |
| Master programme production number: | 050_T_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
