Yesterday, we hosted the book launch for 'Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry: Resourcing Theory and Practice”. It was truly enlightening to witness the diverse array of contributions within this remarkable book, each offering practical and invaluable insights.CamTheoFed

So I'm going to be speaking about infanticide ballads, the VERY long history of infanticide, and the concept of 'murderous mothers' at the symposium 'The Lethal Maternal: The Past in the Present and Future Projections' at ourANU on 31 May!
history.cass.anu.edu.au/events/lethal-…

Excited to announce the Call for Papers for ‘Catholics in Conflict, 1914-1945’ is now open! Deadline for submissions is 10 May 2024 for a one day symposium on 13 June 2024. Further details below

Returning, like a lost soul, to the spiritual home of early modern English social history.

Pleased to say that my 2019 book 'Converting Britannia: Evangelicals and British Public Life, 1770-1840' is now out in paperback at a very reasonable price! At least, I hope it is, because a copy just arrived... Thanks to Boydell & Brewer !

Looking forward to running the first of 3 Royal Historical Society Conversations on Doing History in Public with Andrew WM Smith. Promises to be a fascinating and important discussion royalhistsoc.org/registration-n…

Who decides what is 'archaeology' and what is 'waste'?
In May RaphaelSamuelHistCen and Palestine Exploration Fund will host a talk by Dr Elisabeth Sawerthal on

Ancient and Modern Waste: Archaeological Knowledge Production in Contemporary Jerusalem

Delighted to see this in print. This is an important study and I’m looking forward to seeing its full results.

Enjoy a wonderful day of history at the York Catholic History Day
The Bar Convent
Saturday 1st June 2024

(Plus the scones there are amazing!)
#history #heritage #scones

This once got rather positive comments about how eerily I had described the smell of blood in a lonely farmhouse on a hot, sweltering July day in the 1840s. I'm still ridiculously proud of that. 😊 Histories of the senses FTW! 🙌
Dr Carmen M. Mangion Dr. Aileen Ruane Matina Skalkogiannis

Yesterday I graduated from Cambridge.

What a huge day and a huge four years.

Such a pleasure to think and write and work so hard on a project I loved from beginning to end.

Based on her research in the Flemish context, Jade Willaert reflects on women involvement in the history of LGBTQ ministry. Expanding on the insights from Jason Steidl's recent book Paulist Press News! 📖
New Ways Ministry DignityUSA James Martin, SJ Outreach

Miss Willmott's Ghosts makes it to Japan; one copy at a time...

Wonderful to see the skilled work of Galway’s Dominican nuns featured on RTÉ One Irelands Hidden Treasures Dominican Sisters Irish Dominicans History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland

***Update to Catholics in Conflict, 1914-1945 Symposium***

Thanks to the generous support of UCL IAS and SHoW, we are pleased to offer small travel grants for PhD and ECR students applying to present/attend the conference.

Please refer to the updated CfP below.

Join the team Loyola Institute as an Assistant Professor in Theology in the Catholic Tradition. The position is for a two year fixed term contract. Closing date for applications is 29th May 2024.

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF550/ass…

Many thanks to WHAI for having me on Friday to talk through teaching activities & inclusive practice. Also lovely to share research from book 2 on reproductive strategies in c18th Ulster #HistSex #HistFam #PromiscuousPresbyterians