On Wednesday 9^th November, Belfast Charitable Society celebrated being ‘the first great charity of this town’, with the launch of a new book charting its history in developing Belfast.

Edited by Professor Olwen Purdue of Queen’s University Belfast, and published by Irish Academic Press, this new collection of essays explores the social history of Belfast from the foundation of Belfast Charitable Society in 1752 through to the point at which Belfast emerged as a major industrial city at the end of the nineteenth century.

Read more: https://belfastcharitablesociety.org/publication-the-first-great-charity-of-this-town/