Dr Anna Lively
Research Associate
History
Personal statement
Personal statement
I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a historian of twentieth-century Ireland and Russia. My research specialisms include transnational approaches, histories of the press and the history of ideas. Before starting at Strathclyde in September 2024 I was a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen and Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellow in the History and Culture of Ireland at the University of Oxford. I completed my AHRC-funded PhD, titled 'Revolutionary Reverberations: Russia and Ireland in War and Revolution, 1905-1923', at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. My current research explores the role of Irish women in global anti-communist networks, 1919-1939.
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Prize And Awards
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
- Recipient
- 9/2024
- Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellowship
- Recipient
- 9/2022
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Publications
- 'Charity begins at home'? : Humanitarianism, the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga Famine Campaign in 1920s Ireland
- Lively Anna
- Contemporary European History (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777325000049
- "Playing at International politics?" Irish Nationalist responses to the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
- Lively Anna
- The Irish Revolution A Global History (2022) (2022)
- The antirevolutionary commemoration : the centenary of 1917 in Russia
- Rendle Matthew, Lively Anna
- History and Memory Vol 33, pp. 3-45 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.2979/histmemo.33.2.02
- Inspiring a 'fourth revolution'? The modern revolutionary tradition and the problems surrounding the commemoration of 1917 in 2017 in Russia
- Rendle Matthew, Lively Anna
- Historical Research Vol 90, pp. 230-249 (2017)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12177
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Professional Activities
- Eyewitnesses to the Revolution: Irish Involvement on the Eastern Front during World War One
- Speaker
- 31/1/2025
- Study Group on the Russian Revolution
- Participant
- 4/1/2025
- Irish Anti-Communism and Responses to the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917
- Speaker
- 2024
- Humanitarianism and Irish History
- Participant
- 2023
- Irish Entanglements on the Eastern Front and in the Russian Civil Wars, 1915-1921
- Speaker
- 2023
- Multilingual Legacies of Ireland’s Revolution and Civil War
- Participant
- 2023
Projects
- Fighting the Red Menace: Irish Women and Global Anti-Communism, 1919-1939
- Lively, Anna (Principal Investigator)
- What role did Irish women play in the global spread of anti-communism between 1919 and 1939? This project investigates the diversity of Irish women’s anti-communist activism, including through connections with right-wing groups in the Irish diaspora in Britain, the US and Australia. It focuses on a critical period in the development of global anti-communism, spanning from the Irish War of Independence and the first US Red Scare to the Spanish Civil War. Combining transnational history with gender studies’ approaches, this project analyses a neglected form of Irish women’s political participation and examines the politics of gender on the right.
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027