Researching Place-Based Religious Histories Beyond the Parish Church (2) – Catholicism
- Event type
- Research Training
- Series
- People, Place and Community
- Address
- Online
- Speakers
- Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck, University of London), Francis Young (Independent Scholar), Lawrence Gregory (Newman Review)
- Event dates
- Contact
- ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Email only
Writing the history of Britain’s places and communities is not possible without reference to religion, faith and spirituality. However, local and place-based histories have traditionally focused on telling the stories of parish churches, their buildings, monuments, and communities. In this training session, collaboratively organized by the Victoria County History and the Catholic Record Society, experts in post-Reformation British Catholicism will introduce this religious organization, its communities and archives, key moments in its histories, and how to study local Catholic buildings and communities across the UK.
During this training sessions, those attending will be introduced to key contextual information about post-Reformation British Catholicism and be provided with practical tips for how to undertake detailed research on communities and geographical locations related to this topic.- Carmen Mangion is Reader in Modern British History at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a social and cultural historian of gender and religion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Her research examines how religious identities were formed, understood and lived during times of social change. It highlights wider themes of religious and social identities; transnational religious life; intentional communities; Catholic internationalism; philanthropy and voluntary action; medicalised and sacred spaces; medical missions and the lived history of the Second Vatican Council. Her current research has two strands. The first examines religious life in inner city ministries after 1970. The second interrogates the decline of the lay sisters’ state of religious life, 1880s-1960.
- Francis Young is a UK-based historian and folklorist specialising in the history of religion and belief. He is the author, editor or co-author of over 20 books, including the award-winning Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic, and is well-known as an authority on the religious history of Britain and the Baltic region. He is also a professional indexer of academic books and a translator specialising in medieval and early modern Latin. He is a lay canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
This event is part of the IHR’s People, Place and Community seminar series and is hosted by the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community.
All welcome- this seminar is free to attend, but advance registration is required.
