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Dr Carmen M. Mangion
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historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 25d
Beginning a year of celebrating The Women's Library first 100 years! @fotwl.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social @wsguk.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @ifrwh.bsky.social @ihrwomen.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @catholicrs.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Carmen M. Mangion

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d
We are thrilled to share the programme for our Spring Seminar Series. We do hope you will join us to hear from the fantastic speakers we have lined up. The sign-up links for each seminar will be shared on our website and here on BlueSky in the weeks leading up to each event.

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 5d
A new role at the IHR, supporting the 2027 NACBS conference to be held in Senate House. It looks like a great position. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 6d
You can find a (very) brief history of St Agatha's, Sparkbrook - and the many, many churches of a host of denominations in volume 7 of our #Warwickshire series (published in 1964) and available @bho.bsky.social 🗃️:

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn, Carmen M. Mangion

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 6d
Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration.
tinyurl.com/229on2w7
@lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion, Claire Jowitt

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Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social · 6d
We are absolutely thrilled to share our Draft Programme for the Late Stuart Court Symposium - We have an amazing lineup of speakers!

If you are interested in joining us in-person or online, sign up now using our Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980806533...

Reposted by Mary Burke, Carmen M. Mangion

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 12d
Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely!

*to submit an abstract before 21/3
CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven. This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife. Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance. Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage performers, eyewitnesses. This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters? We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to: - making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures - making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation - performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory) - materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects - diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality - occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists) - affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

Reposted by Christine Kooi, Carmen M. Mangion

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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 12d
CFP!

Special issue of the journal Religions

"Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"

www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...)
www.mdpi.com

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Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social · 13d
The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever.

academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
Front cover image of History Workshop Journal issue 100, with a hand-drawn illustration of a Wollemi pine.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Carmen M. Mangion

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13d
Published next month in our Modern British Histories series (though available earlier online via Cambridge Core), Matthew Hilton's Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development. Essential reading for our times. #Skystorians
Charity After Empire
Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire
www.cambridge.org

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 15d
Hey #RenSA26 conference peeps! Maria Prendergast & I have a 2-session panel "Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe."

*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia

rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...

Hope to see you!
Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe II: Habsburg Networks, 1530–1640
This two-session panel investigates how Catholic women of the Spanish and Hapsburg ruling class interrogated patriarchal conceptions of sovereignty by imagining, embodying, and enacting alternative…
rsa.confex.com

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Carmen M. Mangion

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 16d
New free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
All of the information in the image is available via the web link.

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

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Divorce_History @divorcehistory.bsky.social · 16d
Call for Papers deadline is 2 Feb 2026. #PhD #ECR & unfunded bursaries available for speakers. See 👇for details.

www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Broken Bonds - New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969
This conference invites paper proposals from scholars in history, legal studies, human geography, anthropology, English, film studies, sociology, politics, and related disciplines. We welcome research...
www.northumbria.ac.uk

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Carmen M. Mangion

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Divorce_History @divorcehistory.bsky.social · 16d
#CfP Just over a week left to submit an abstract for our FREE 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969'. Online & in-person @northumbriauni.bsky.social on 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce #legalhist #law #marriage
Broken Bonds - New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969
This conference invites paper proposals from scholars in history, legal studies, human geography, anthropology, English, film studies, sociology, politics, and related disciplines. We welcome research...
www.northumbria.ac.uk

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 16d
It's amazing isn't it! I'm adding it to the reading list for our BA dissertations students!

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 16d
Better move this to the top of my reading list and discuss with students:

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 16d
YAY!! I'm off to Rome at end of June for my first EUARE conference! Looking forward to reconnecting/engaging with fellow scholars of gender and Catholicism. Full panel found here: secure.onlinecongress.it/Olc/Client/P... @catogenesex.bsky.social @mjesteban.bsky.social @raulminguez.bsky.social

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Michael H. Whitworth, Carmen M. Mangion

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David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 17d
So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital.

Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation.

Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until...

...I stumbled onto this book.
Front cover of 'Bethlem Hospital: A History of Care and Control' by Evelyn Cross. The image shows a Victorian (?) institution viewed through open gates. Two statues stand on the gate posts

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 17d
In November 1959 Jean Cocteau spent a week decorating a side chapel in the Church of Notre Dame de France just off Leicester Square in London. The subjects are The Annunciation, Crucifixion and Assumption

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Keith Lilley, Carmen M. Mangion

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Michael Harris @davidmichaelharris.bsky.social · 18d
I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!

adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Reposted by Lynn Abrams, Carmen M. Mangion

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 20d
Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration: tinyurl.com/24pxj5we
@lauragowing.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

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Catholic Record Society @catholicrs.bsky.social · 23d
The latest issue of British Catholic History is now live, featuring articles by Andrii Pastushenko, Alejandro Sell Maestro and Stephen Withnell! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #cathhist #history #skystorians #skyhistory #catholicism
Latest issue | British Catholic History | Cambridge Core
British Catholic History
www.cambridge.org

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 25d
Wonderful end to a great day celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary at @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social with Sally Alexander & Mary Evans reflecting on their interactions with its collections & archivists. It shaped their scholarship & feminism & this in turn influenced those coming in their wake.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 25d
Very insightful paper by @carolinederry.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event to celebrate 💯 of @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary on legal campaigns & debates around the age of consent & equal moral standard. Intersections with class, gender, age & sexuality highlighted are fascinating.

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 25d
@womanssphere.bsky.social is now speaking about her forthcoming book on the British Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects at @fotwl.bsky.social conference today. 49 of the 100 objects come from @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary.

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 25d
In a wide ranging paper @carmenmangion.bsky.social notes emergence of new religious women’s groups in 1970s in response to WLM incl. campaign for women’s ordination in C of E. Great to hear that @graceheaton.bsky.social will be giving paper to @fotwl.bsky.social on this soon. #WomensLibrary.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 25d
The always fab @carmenmangion.bsky.social now speaking on religious women & feminist activism in inter-war years via archive sources held at @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary. Range of campaigns & importance of cross organisational collaboration emphasised. @fotwl.bsky.social

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Carmen M. Mangion

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 25d
& if interested in the #SixPointGroup a cheeky plug for my article in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social which uses amazing archive of its Chair Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan, who insisted the Group’s archive & her own personal archive, was donated to the #WomensLibrary. Free access to all 😊.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 25d
Interesting re-appraisal of concept & use of militancy by female activists post suffrage in Britain with focus on Six Point Group by @kellybosomworth.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary. Six Point Group archive is held at @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Carmen M. Mangion

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 25d
So lovely to be here at @lselibrary.bsky.social for @fotwl.bsky.social celebration of 100 years of #WomensLibrary. Anne Summers is giving a great history of the library including shout out to David Doughan who has helped so many historians of women in their work over the years, including me ❤️.

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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 25d
Lovely to see so many friends with @fotwl.bsky.social for The Womens library centenary conference #WomensHistory

Anne Summers chairing