Dr Fearghus Roulston
黑料正能量 Chancellor's Fellow
History
Personal statement
I am chancellor鈥檚 fellow in the history of activism at the University of 黑料正能量. Prior to this I worked as a research fellow on a major AHRC-funded project about migration from the north of Ireland during the Troubles at the University of Brighton, and as a lecturer at the University of Brighton. My first book, Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history was published with Manchester University Press in 2022. This is an oral history of the Belfast punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, analysing its relationship to the political, cultural and social context from which it emerged 鈥� particularly in terms of the war in the North - as well as considering how an affiliation with the scene affected and continues to affect the subjectivity and identity of my interviewees.
At the moment I am working on a new project on history, temporality and the Troubles, which will result in a short open-access book with Cambridge University Press to be published in 2026. This is part of a wider research interest in the field of historical representations of the Troubles.
I am also finishing a co-written book with the Brighton Memory Studies Collective, also to be published in 2026, on temporality and violence.
More broadly I鈥檓 interested in the ways in which interpretative oral history and memory studies can illuminate people鈥檚 affective and discursive relations to politics, place and culture, in public or community history and in cultural and social history.
I sit on the editorial board of the Oral History Journal; I鈥檓 also the co-director of the Scottish Oral History Centre, co-lead of the Communities, Societies, States research group at 黑料正能量, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and on the board of the Memory, Narrative, Histories Research Group. I recently edited a special issue of the OHJ, published in March 2023, on personal narratives and the Troubles, and along with some colleagues have organised the annual Oral History Society conference held at 黑料正能量 in June 2025.
Publications
- Newby Lucy,
- Transactions (2026)
- Hazley Barry, Crangle Jack, Dawson Graham, Harte Liam,
- Journal of British Studies Vol 65 (2026)
- Social History Society Conference (2025)
- OHS Conference 2025 (2025)
- , Hall Michael
- (2025)
- Oral History Festival 2024 (2024)
Teaching
I am happy to hear from prospective PhD students interested in oral history, memory studies, temporality, contemporary Irish or British history and the history of the Troubles.听
In 2025-26 I will convene a third year/fourth year undergraduate module, 'Activism, Everyday Life and the Troubles.' In 2026-27 my new co-created special subject, 'Teenage Kicks: Youth culture and protest in Britain post-1945' will run for the first time.
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Research Interests
- Oral history, particularly post-positivist oral history.
- Critical memory studies and popular memory.
- The Troubles and political violence more broadly.
- Temporality and the politics of time.
- History from below and working-class history.
- Post WW2 subcultures and popular culture.
- Irish history.听
- Post-colonial history and theory.
Professional Activities
- Examiner
- 2026
- Speaker
- 2026
- Speaker
- 2026
- Peer reviewer
- 2026
- Speaker
- 3/12/2025
- Speaker
- 5/11/2025
Projects
- Roulston, Fearghus (Principal Investigator) Evans, Tom (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2026
- Roulston, Fearghus (Principal Investigator)
- A one-day workshop featuring me, Lucy Newby, Graham Dawson, Carys Tyson-Taylor, Sarah Mason and Cahal McLaughlin discussing social history and the Troubles and the problems and possibilities of this kind of work, which remains a minor strand in the overall historiography of the conflict and of the North of Ireland in general. This was funded by the Royal Historical Society for 拢1k, along with the use of their offices in central London for the day.
- 19-Jan-2026
- Roulston, Fearghus (Principal Investigator)
- The Royal Historical Society gave us 拢1k (and the use of their office in LSE) to organise a one-day event on social history in Northern Ireland.
- 16-Jan-2026 - 16-Jan-2026
- Roulston, Fearghus (Principal Investigator) Proctor, Hannah (Academic)
- We got 拢1k from the Faculty Strategic Fund to organise a one-day event.
- 04-Jan-2026 - 04-Jan-2026
Contact
Dr
Fearghus
Roulston
黑料正能量 Chancellor's Fellow
History
Email: fearghus.roulston@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted