Monday 11 July
CATHOLIC RECORD SOCIETY
British Catholic History
64th Annual Conference
11-13 July 2022: The Bar Convent, York
10am – Registration
12 noon – Opening of conference and welcome from Dr Susan O’Brien, Chair of the Catholic Record Society and Dr Helen Kilburn, Conference Director
12.30pm – Dr Maria Power (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University): Suicide or Self Sacrifice: The Catholic Church debates the 1981 Northern Irish Hunger Strikes
2pm – Lunch
3pm – PANEL: Commentary as memory formation
Brian Casey (Durham University, UK): Religious as accidental ethnographers: The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood and the Catholic middle class in provincial Ireland, 1942-1958
Aidan Enright (Leeds Beckett University, UK): “This much-be-bothered-by agitators country”: Charles Raleigh Chichester and the English Catholic experience of Ireland, 1846-91
Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck University, UK): God’s Ambassadress and the English House of Syon, 1897-1947: cultural memory-making
4.30pm – Break
5pm – PANEL: Works in progress
James Bartholomeusz (Independent scholar): The return of the Servile State: Distributism in dialogue with modern political thought
The Revd Dr Terry Tastard (Westminster Diocese and Birmingham University, UK): Congregational Leadership in Wartime: Mother Rose Niland’s Letters and Diaries 1939-1945
Lawrence Gregory (National Institute for Newman Studies, USA): Update on the work of NINS
Patrick Maume (Royal Irish Academy, Republic of Ireland): Frederick Lucas, The Tablet, and the Great Irish Famine 1845-1849
6pm – Finish
6.15pm – Requiem Mass for deceased members of the CRS
7.30pm – Conference dinner
Tuesday 12 July
10.30am – PANEL: Education and edification in Catholic spheres
Helen Knight (Durham University, UK): Secondary education for Catholic girls in England, 1870 -1920 – government funded schools.
Stephen Parker (University of Worcester, UK): Reforming catechesis: towards an appraisal of the contribution of Canon Francis Drinkwater (1886-1982)
Kathryn LaMontagne (Boston University, USA): A Middle-Class Convert’s Crucible: Margaret Fletcher and the Catholic Women’s League
12 noon – CRS Annual General Meeting
1pm – Lunch
2pm – Kieran Taylor (University of Stirling, UK): “A matter for every Catholic”: the role of Roman Catholics in the relief of Belgian refugees during the Great War
3.30pm – Break
4pm – PANEL: Catholics in the polity
Diego Herrero (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain): The First Count of Gondomar at the Anglican crossroads: confessional diplomacy and religious conflict in times of peace (1604-1626)
Eilish Gregory (Open University, UK): Catholics Sequestrations and Networking in Georgian Britain, 1714-1727
Tonya Moutray (Russell Sage College, USA): Restoration during Crisis: the Liège Sepulchrines in England 1794-1829
Greg Tirenin (Boston University, USA): Wesley and the People Called Papists: Recusancy, Methodism, and Religious Tension in Eighteenth Century Britain
5.45pm – Finish
Wednesday 13 July
9am – CRS Council Meeting
10.30am – PANEL: Women, the senses, and material culture
Esther Rollinson (University of Manchester, UK): Light, Luminosity, and Liturgy: the effects and affects of light in English Catholic chapel space in the long eighteenth century
Caroline Lesemann-Elliott (Royal Holloway, UK): “One may truely say she breathed out her soule:” Liminal Women and Spiritual Singing at Exiled English Convents, 1640-1700
Peter Stiffell (University of Kent, UK): Maiden queen and mother: The coinage and material culture of Mary I
12 noon – Lunch
1pm – Muiris MacGiollabhuí (Purdue University, USA): A “Transatlantic Tipperary”: The Exiled United Irishmen in Newfoundland, 1798-1803
2.30pm – Break
3pm – PANEL: British Isles Catholicism and Empire
L. Michael Ratnapalan (Yonsei University, South Korea): Roman Catholicism and Theories of the British Empire, 1829-1890
James Akpu (Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland): Catholic Print Propaganda on the Mission Field: Researching the Nigerian Catholic Herald, 1925-1952
Matthew Butler (University of Texas at Austin, USA): An Empire on which the Sorrow Never Sets: Kenelm Vaughan’s ‘Confraternity of Expiation’ and British Catholic Modernity in Latin America, 1870-1910
4.30pm – Finish