Robyn Atcheson Historian

Dr Robyn Atcheson is a social historian and history communicator living and working in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Robyn teaches and writes on social history, the social history of medicine and women’s history in Britain and Ireland from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. 
Her specialist research interests lie in the history of poor relief and public health in nineteenth-century Belfast. She completed her PhD at Queen’s University, Belfast in 2017 on this topic. In 2015 she won the Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Research Award from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

Robyn has over a decade of experience in teaching, lecturing and public speaking alongside her research and writing skills.

In recognition of her academic work and work as a public historian Robyn was elected an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2025.

Robyn and her team organise regular history events including guided tours, talks and workshops in Belfast and beyond.