Dr Carmen M. Mangion
carmenmangion.bsky.social
Dr Carmen M. Mangion
@carmenmangion.bsky.social

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

History 46%
Political science 23%
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.

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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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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 🗃️:
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...
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
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
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...
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

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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...
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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
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/...

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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
#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

It's amazing isn't it! I'm adding it to the reading list for our BA dissertations students!

Better move this to the top of my reading list and discuss with students:

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
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.

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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
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...

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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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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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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.

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@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.

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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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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
& 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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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
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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Lovely to see so many friends with @fotwl.bsky.social for The Womens library centenary conference #WomensHistory

Anne Summers chairing