We're delighted to be hosting a seminar on Mother Cabrini's 'teaching force' on 21 November! x.com/ISHWR_A/status…

Get 60% off the first volume in the series - only £32/$44 for hardback of 'British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560–1800: Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion' boydellandbrewer.com/9781914967009/…… #twitterstorians #CathHist #History

Our cataloguer working on the library of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre gets to see some amazing marbled endpapers – like these! The first is from CHS 325 (1769). The second is from CHS 339 (1765) – but we think that the marbled endpapers could from much later in the 1800s

Join us next Tuesday, 10 December, when @PatriciaStoop will speak to us on 'Women Religious in the Low Countries (c. 1350-1600) and their roles in the production and circulation of literature and knowledge'. Registration is via durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Many thanks to @PatriciaStoop for a really wonderful paper on female religious and the production and circulation of literature and knowledge in the Low Countries yesterday!

Joanne Myers of Gettysburg College will deliver the paper, '“I chuse the better subject”: Original Verse by English Poor Clares in Exile (1600s–1700s)' on Tuesday 21 January. To join us , register at durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for Joanne Myers' wonderful paper on the production and usage of poetry in the English Poor Clare Convents in Exile, which drew on the collections held by Durham University Collections (no longer on X).

Join us on Tuesday 18 February to hear Catherine Sexton (@CCSDham) discuss 'Holy Listening and Sacred Reading: British and Irish Sisters' Reflections on Ageing and Ministry in the Twenty-First Century.' durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

An event of interest - 'Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities' hosted by University of Notre Dame, March 8–9, 2025. isla.nd.edu/news-and-event…

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our 67th annual conference, which will take place at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, as well as virtually, on 14-16 July 2025. More details about the conference and how to submit a paper can be found here: buff.ly/4h4vorv

#8M It is not about making room for women in history, but about giving history back to women. 👉Join & share our initative #WomeninResearchforWomeninHistory Archivo colonial BIESES ISHWRA History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland ADHUC EM Women's Writing AEIHM Project WINK: Women's Invisible Ink CIRGEN & so many others!

Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth Century Britain is out now with Boydell & Brewer! Over the coming weeks we will be spotlighting the chapters. First up is Pat Jones writing about the Young Christian Workers (YCW) movement! The book is available here: buff.ly/p4fco7p

Thrilled to have been awarded a The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant for a project with Canonesses' Collections and Jonathan Bush. We will be thinking critically about the ways in which scholars work with religious orders and their valuable collections.

Such an exciting project. Congratulations to all involved! 🥳

Lovely write up on Durham University website about my recent The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust success with Canonesses' Collections and Jonathan Bush! Excited to start the project 😄 durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…

Some fantastic work by fellow Durham CCS colleagues Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 Dr Eilish Gregory and Canonesses' Collections in the sale, as well as my own "Mysticism in early modern England"! (2/4)

There's 60% off the first volume in the Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 series in the Boydell & Brewer sale. Enter the code BB600 to get 'British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560–1800' for only £32 here: boydellandbrewer.com/9781914967009/… #nuntastic #CathHist #twitterstorians #catholicism

History of Catholicism job klaxon! Come and join us at Durham Theology and Religion to work on a #nuntastic post-doc project about the Faithful Companions of Jesus. Application deadline is 27 July. More info here: durham.taleo.net/careersection/… #twitterstorians #jobalert #catholicism

'Scholars interested in monasticism, precursors of the Enlightenment, and early modern British and Irish history should not miss the essays included in this collection'. Review in SixteenthCenturyJournal of the first volume in the series #history #twitterstorians #nuntastic