You can find out more about the Syon Abbey Collection, which includes 296 vows of sisters between 1607 & 2010, in our special online guide ➡️libguides.exeter.ac.uk/syon-abbey-col…

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The vows in the Syon Abbey archive are a great way to discover nuns who were sisters in religion AND biological sisters! One example is the Waldegrave sisters, who entered Syon Abbey in Lisbon between 1681 and 1694.

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Care of the sick at the convent of Port-Royal des Champs by Madeleine du Boullogne, 1646-1710

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A great mural in Dun Laoghaire to honour the artistic work of Dominican sister, Concepta Lynch OP. More on her here: dib.ie/biography/lync…

Thanks to Dr. Kathleen Sprows Cummings for a great paper on female religious and 'questing' today. Lots of good research questions raised, not least the importance of exploring vocations from a non-statistical perspective.

Thanks to all who participated in a great post-paper discussion!

I have arrived in South Bend! Really looking forward to catching up with Irish/women religious Studies colleagues while I'm here!

We love this tiny illustration of a Bridgettine nun, which decorates the vow (dated 1920) of Sister Mary Paul of Syon Abbey.

Find out more about the Syon Abbey Collection here➡️libguides.exeter.ac.uk/syon-abbey-col…

📷 EUL MS 389/COM/2/2/1/20

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The Cushwa Center is looking forward to hosting #chwr2025 , Lives and Archives, in June 2025 at the University of Notre Dame. Read (and share!) the call for papers: cushwa.nd.edu/chwr2025.

History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, GlobalSistersReport, American Catholic Historical Association, ISHWRA, The Nuns, Communicators4Nuns, CHWR

Anyone interested in joining me for a panel proposal on the theme 'Nuns and Catholic Intellectual History?' Message me or email!
I would give a paper on Margaret Farley and her turn to thinking about sexual ethics in the 1970s.
Cushwa Center

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Hello people, my book SUPERNATURAL BODIES has its own page on the Manchester University Press website and that's exciting isn't it! Out in September!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177230/…

To celebrate #RenSA24 Boydell & Brewer have a 50% discount code plus free shipping on Irish Women in Religious Orders valid until 30 April The Renaissance Society of America #earlymodern #wmnshist

order online at; boydellandbrewer.com/9781783277308/…

All welcome to attend our co-hosted online seminar next week, where Shannen Dee Williams, Ph.D. will speak; author of the award-winning 'Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African-American Freedom Struggle' University of Galway EDI Moore Institute Register here: forms.office.com/e/ncFyLakDE0

History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland ISHWRA EHS Catholic Record Society Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University Cushwa Center

We love this tiny illustration of a Bridgettine nun engrossed in a book! She can be found in the border of Sister Mary Dominic's vow in the Syon Abbey archive.

📷 EUL MS 389/COM/2/2/3/4 (date: 1924-27)

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These early twentieth century drawings from the Syon Abbey archive are by a novice sister, who - despite her 'horror of spiders' - did try her best to like them!

📷 EUL MS 389/CRE/5/3

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Congratulations to the Cushwa Center’s grant and award recipients for 2024! Funds will support a record 31 researchers this year, including Robert Ventresca, Erica Moretti, Miguel A. Valerio, Ella Hadacek, Brenna Moore, Dr Eilish Gregory, Brian Mueller.

Learn more: cushwa.nd.edu/news/cushwa-ce…

Grateful to carry on part of Sister Karen’s legacy, Cushwa will host #chwr2025 at Notre Dame, June 22–25, 2025. A call for papers announcing the conference theme will be posted next week. Stay tuned, History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, GlobalSistersReport, Dr. Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, American Catholic Historical Association, The Nuns. #nuntastic

Celebrating International Women's Day by continuing my transcribing of letters written by the Little Company of Mary Sisters who recently arrived into Sydney in 1885 to the Mother Foundress in Rome. In a space of three months they treated cases of smallpox, typhoid fever and