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NEWS • #25 • FEBRUARY 2017
HIS TORY STORY >>> LEGENDARY EAST BELFAST HISTORIAN AIDAN CAMPBELL HAS BEEN AWARED A BEM IN THE NEW YEARS HONOURS LIST. A TRULY FASCINATING MAN, WE HAVE THE NEWS ON THE HONOUR PLUS SOME BACKGROUND ON HIM AND HOW HIS PASSION FOR LOCAL HISTORY BEGAN. WWW EASTBELFASTHISTORY.COM
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EAST BELFAST HISTORIAN NAMED IN 2017 NEW YEARS HONOURS LIST Aidan Campbell’s best-selling books celebrate the history of East Belfast and raise money for local charities. To date Aidan has raised a staggering £136,000. £100,000 of this through sales at Hillmount Garden centre alone. His encyclopedic mind holds a wealth of facts and figures from East Belfast.
ongratulations to East Belfast man Aidan Campbell BEM who has been named on the New Year’s Honours List 2017 just as it has emerged that sales of his books at Hillmount Garden Centre have raised a remarkable £100,000 for charity. Aidan had been collaborator with our publications over the past five years and its has been a joy from the very beginning. His knowledge is astounding and his now legendary talks are spellbinding. Aidan joined Robin and Alan at Hillmount Garden Centre to celebrate reaching the impressive milestone as they congratulated him on his selfless fundraising. Robin Mercer of Hillmount
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said: “We would like to congratulate Aidan on his well deserved BEM and on the news that sales of his books about East Belfast have raised a staggering £100,000 at Hillmount alone. We have had a long relationship with Aidan and we are indebted to our customers as it’s their generosity that has raised £100,000 from their book purchases for the range of charities that Aidan supports. I’m sure that the money raised will be a real boost to the great work being done by the charities who benefit from his fundraising efforts.” Aidan is originally from Woodvale in North Belfast and came to live in East Belfast around 27 years ago. His
PICTURED ROBIN AND ALAN MERCER OF HILLMOUNT GARDEN CENTRE CONGRATULATE AIDAN CAMPBELL BEM ON HIS NEW YEAR’S HONOUR
first foray into history research came when he was a student in 1977, as he explains. ‘For my thesis I completed ‘The Giants Causeway Tram’ which was a business history 1883-1949. I investigated how it came about and why it came to an end. That was my first piece of
history and research along those lines.’ Following this he worked for international soft drink brands, managing sales nationwide which led to a lot of travelling. He then worked for himself for 15 years as a management consultant. Aidan had to then retire through ill health due to
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