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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 · Jan 17

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 6d

Please join us for our inaugural seminar of the term in the IHR and online. Register: tinyurl.com/298ssvkr
@ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 7d

The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 9d

neither was I!

Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 9d

Wow! wow! wow!

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Reposted by Lyn Robinson, Nicholas Birns, Carmen M. Mangion , and 1 more Lyn Robinson, Nicholas Birns, Carmen M. Mangion, Markus W. Gehring

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury

No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service Sarah Mullally has been named as the first female leader of the Church of England as Downing Street announced the 106th archbishop of Canterbury nearly a year on from Justin Welby’s resignation over the handling of a safeguarding scandal. This is the first time an archbishop of Canterbury has been chosen since the Church of England allowed women to become bishops in 2014. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 13d

Tomorrow, online at 6pm! Nyala Karla Nauwelaers on 'The feminization thesis under scrutiny: the case of freethinking women of Ghent late 19th-early 20th century). Contact to register: [email protected].

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 29d

road trip now? They’d make for intriguing interviewees with their decades of knowledge of their changing church — which I love has now inspired them into occupation…

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 29d

YES LADIES, THIS IS THE WAY. Escape facilitated by former students to boot. 🥰

Fascinated by the Provost’s use of ‘health & safety’ concerns and depicting them as ‘fragile’ & in need of ‘professional help’ in order to deny them their convent. As if these ladies need to be told what’s good for them.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Sep 12

New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'

'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and
the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical
Scholarship', by Timothy Twining bit.ly/3IkveRA

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'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical Scholarship', by Timothy Twining. Full abstract:

The history of early modern scholarship was long written as a subject set at some remove from
the rest of early modern society. Learning was the common property of like-minded scholars
in the ‘Republic of Letters’, linked by shared codes of elite sociability and united by a mutual
concern to transcend religious boundaries. Recent years have seen such views challenged,
with studies demonstrating how much scholarly activity was undertaken to achieve confessional objectives. Yet, these contributions have chiefly focused on orthodox clerical scholars.
This article uses the case of John Locke to present a new perspective on the place and significance of erudition in the early modern period. It is based on a thoroughgoing examination
of Locke’s lifetime of religious reading, bringing together evidence from his manuscript notebooks and journals, his library catalogues and annotated books, and his correspondence and
published works. It coins the notion of ‘everyday erudition’ to reveal how learning was not an
abstruse concern. Instead, for Locke and his contemporaries at multiple points on the sociocultural scale, it was a kind of common currency, a tool to be used to come to terms with the
historical reality of Christian revelation

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our first Irish Studies seminar of the new year will be our very own Dom Bryan on 22 Sept speaking on 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald's restaurants'. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · Sep 3

Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!

Poster for Dr Ciaran McCabe's seminar paper entitled 'Privacy, respectability and working class domestic spaces in Dublin's tenements, c.1910-60'. Wednesday 10 September at 4pm in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happy to be in one of my favourite places for my first academic conference of the year. And I have a room with a view! Looking forward to discussing catholic archives, interdisciplinarity and co-creative research in Durham. @catholicrs.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn, Catriona Seth , and 3 more Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn, Catriona Seth, Frederik Dhondt, Carmen M. Mangion, Jan Machielsen

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · Sep 1

One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship.

Apply before Oct. 1st!

Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

Fellowship Programme | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

consciencebibliotheek.be

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Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Lesley A. Hall, Gavin Miller , and 5 more Martin Paul Eve, Lesley A. Hall, Gavin Miller, Jo Barraket, John Marston, Justin Lewis, Adrian Vickers, Carmen M. Mangion

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is not only a serious issue for historians and not only a serious issue for academics (although it is that). It's a development that's also deleterious for the GLAM sector, for example, and part of a much larger trend nationally and internationally to restrict and dismantle access to archives.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Aug 21

Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our conference is approaching soon!

There is still time to book to explore & celebrate the challenges of uncovering the presence of women within archives, libraries, museums & personal collections.

Info here: womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

#WomensHistory #GenderHist #Archives #Museums

Black and white image of a woman reading next to bookshelves.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Done that thing where I went to the library to get a book & found another incredibly book that had not been on my rader right next to it. Yay for shelf browsing #DigitalBooksCouldNever

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨

@kingsmusic.bsky.social is delighted to offer a permanent Lectureship/Senior Lectureship, starting ASAP, in the history of opera and/or music theatre (any timeframe) OR historically European music c. 1780 to1900.

SHORT DEADLINE – 31 AUGUST

APPLY HERE: tinyurl.com/2t34j665

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · Aug 6

@janehamlett.bsky.social @gcgosling.bsky.social @profginab.bsky.social @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @hannahelias.bsky.social @historyhannahb.bsky.social @luciejones83.bsky.social @djrgrey.bsky.social If you know of any PhD students that could benefit from this - please encourage them!

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · Aug 5

Wheeee: contributor's copy of www.bloomsbury.com/uk/1920s-978... arrived today! (My chapter is 'The Way Things (Still) Are: Women, Visions and Realities in the 1920s')

The 1920s

The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism. This book takes a fresh approach to the decade by examining bo…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Aug 4

Day 12: still no word from the Home Office after they asked me to explain why I couldnt receive medical treatment in the USA ($$$). I wake up at 3 am CST each day to monitor emails. This is taking a toll on my health. I'm a UK citizen. I'm under the care of British doctors. Why must I justify this?

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Jul 27

I'm currently in immigration exile, see below.

Since I'm stateside, I'll be talking to the Morbidly Curious Book Club tonight at 7 pm EST about Victorian surgery and my first book, The Butchering Art. Please come and distract me with your questions. Link below 👇

www.youtube.com/live/Hl3OO7p...

A screenshot explaining that Lindsey was prevented from flying back to the UK despite being a citizen and having all the legal paperwork.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Aug 5

Bodleian Book Hospital. 22 August, 11.00–15.00.

Bring flapless lift-the-flaps & scribbled on bedtime stories to the Bodleian Book Hospital where our Conservation Team will fix 'well-loved' favourites and show little ones how to care for treasured tomes.

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/summer...

Collage of images from our last Book Hospital event showing Bodleian staff, children and parents engaging in reading and crafting activities. Includes one of our talented conservators reading to a group, another pretending to repair a book with medical gauze, and a young child attending a craft session making colourful paper projects. A round sticker overlaying the images reads 'Book Doctor In Training'.

A document titled "Book Hospital Check Up Sheet" including fields for 'Trainee Book Doctor's Age', today's date, and questions about the condition of a book, with checkboxes for types of damage and a space for drawing the book's damage.

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · Aug 4

@ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social ‪@dralanagharris.bsky.social‬

(Standing) Xavier Jou-Badal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) on Gender and Mobility in the Chocolate Factory. Barcelona, 1910-1914; Jenny Smart (Cambridge) on Climacteric Insanity in the Derbyshire and Norfolk county asylums, 1845-1914; Jennie Kiff (Lincoln) on Unravelling “...a knot of women…”: women’s networks and the Bradford branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union; Kate Hart (Birkbeck) on Marching for Change: How Have Women’s Experiences of Local Masculinities Influenced Their Protest Agency in France and Britain? Case Studies from 1981-1983; (Sitting) Florentine Friedrich (Lincoln) on ‘Take Thee to a Nunnery': Women, Convents, and Public Good Provision in Nineteenth Century; Louise Dobson (Sussex) on Janet Flanner, New Journalism, and the Politics of anti-Communism at the New Yorker

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · Aug 1

I'd call that a good start to the weekend!

Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · Aug 1

Stunning cake. It's made me hungry for cake!

Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · Jul 31

On other matters. New batch of lavender! Looks to be a bumper crop. Email if roundabout ihr.

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · Jul 31

The dream library. Real people not bots when I had questions. And they digitised the most obscure chapter for me. Congrats!

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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · Jul 23

#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

LSE Library Fellowships

Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

www.lse.ac.uk

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · Jul 18

looking forward to reading this!

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Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 17

*New talk klaxon*

Where: The WI Learning Hub
What:
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social's talk on The WI at 110 Years – The Story of a Movement for Women
Paid Member: £0.00
Tuesday, 16 Sept 2025 at 7:30PM (1 hour).
Link for more: learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...

Talks : Caitríona's Talk on The WI at 110 Years - The Story of a Movement for Women - WI Learning Hub

learninghub.thewi.org.uk

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