Anna Lively
Affiliated student & steering committee member
Biography
Anna Lively is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD explores transnational connections between the Russian and Irish Revolutions between 1905 and 1923, focusing on the history of ideas and press networks. She holds an MSc with distinction in contemporary history from the University of Edinburgh and a first-class history degree from the University of Exeter.
Research Interests
Russian and Soviet history; Irish history; history of revolutions; transnational history; history of ideas.
Publications
Matthew Rendle and Anna Lively, ‘The Antirevolutionary Commemoration: The Centenary of 1917 in Russia’, History and Memory (forthcoming in Autumn 2021).
Anna Lively, ‘‘Playing at International politics?’: Irish Nationalist Responses to the Russian Revolution, 1917-21’ in Fearghal McGarry and Patrick Mannion (eds.), A Global History of Irish Revolution (NYU Press, forthcoming).
Anna Lively, ‘Exhibition Review: Three Colours of Truth: The Centenary of the Civil War in Russia’, Revolutionary Russia, vol. 32(2019), 290-4.
Anna Lively, ‘Limerick: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. By John O’Callaghan. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2018. Derry: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. By Adrian Grant. Dublin Four Courts Press, 2018.’ Irish Historical Studies, vol. 43 (2019), 357-8.
Anna Lively, ‘Voynich’s The Gadfly: Exploring connections between Revolutionary Russia and Ireland’, Age of Revolutions Blog, 10 December 2018.
Matthew Rendle and Anna Lively, 'Inspiring a 'fourth revolution?': The modern revolutionary tradition and the problems surrounding the commemoration of 1917 in 2017 in Russia', Historical Research, vol. 90 (2017), 230-49.
Conference & Seminar Presentations
Annual Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution, University of Leuven, Antwerp, January 2020.
Comment on Sarah Badcock paper, ‘Russia’s Revolutions from Provincial Perspectives’, CSMCH Seminar, January 2020.
First-Year PhD Conference, University of Edinburgh, April 2019.
Invited speaker at event on ‘The Spectre that came Alive: Reactions to the Bolshevik Revolution', Edinburgh Open History Society, Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh, March 2019.
'New Directions in Irish History', Teesside University, Middlesbrough, February 2019.
'Limerick 1918-23: New Approaches', Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, September 2018.
University of Edinburgh and University of Cambridge Graduate Irish History Workshops, December 2017, January 2019, January 2020, January 2021.
Academic Memberships & Affiliations
Postgraduate member of British Association of Irish Studies (BAIS).
Postgraduate member of British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES).
Steering Committee member of Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CSMCH) at the University of Edinburgh.
Member of Modern Irish History Group at the University of Edinburgh.
Accreditations & Awards
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) PhD Studentship (2018-2022).
University of Edinburgh UK/EU Masters scholarship (2016-17).
History, Classics and Archaeology Masters scholarship (2016-17).
Gray Masters scholarship (2016-17).
Sheila Cannell Masters scholarship for academic excellence (2016-17).
Bruce Coleman Prize (2016) (for the University of Exeter finalist with the best performance in modern history).
Centre Roles
Anna is a member of the Centre steering committee and has also contributed the following blog post: