Publications

Monographs and edited volumes:

Contested Identities: Catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales (Manchester University Press, 2008).

Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality:  Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900 (edited with Laurence Lux-Sterritt) (Palgrave, 2010).

Convents and the Outside World, volume 6 of a 6 volume edited collection of primary documents entitled English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800 (Pickering and Chatto, 2013).

Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age: Britain, 1945-1990 (Manchester University Press, 2020).

Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism (1830-1913), (edited with Susan O’Brien) (Oxford, forthcoming 2022)

Articles in refereed journals:

‘ “Good Teacher” or “Good Religious”?: The Professional Identity of Catholic Women Religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales’, Women’s History Review, 14:2 (2005), pp. 223-242.

‘Laying “Good Strong Foundations”: the power of the symbolic in the formation of a religious sister’, Women’s History Review, 16:3 (2007), pp. 403-15.

‘Faith, Philanthropy and the Aged Poor’, European Review of History 19:4 (2012), pp. 515-530.

‘ “To console, to nurse, to prepare for eternity”: The Catholic sickroom in late nineteenth-century England, Women’s History Review, 21:4 (2012), pp. 657-78.

‘ “The business of life”: Educating Catholic deaf children in late nineteenth-century England’, History of Education 42:1 (2012), pp. 575-94.

‘ “Why, would you have me live upon a gridiron?”: Pain, Identity, and Emotional Communities in Nineteenth-Century English Convent Culture’, 19. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 15 (2012), pp. 1-16.

‘Dickinson, Frances (1755-1830)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2014.

‘Housing the “decayed members of the middle classes’: social class and St Scholastica’s Retreat, 1861-1900’, Continuity and Change, 29:3 (2014), pp. 373-398.

‘Community voices and ‘community scripts’, Studies, 107:427 (2018), pp. 302-13.

‘Tolerable Intolerance’:  Religion, Sectarianism and Voluntary Hospitals in late-nineteenth-century England’ Medical History 62: 4 (2018), pp. 468-84.

‘A New Internationalism: Endeavouring to “build from this diversity, unity”, 1940-1990’, Journal of Contemporary History 55:3 (2020), pp. 579-601

Edited journal issues:

‘Female Religious across the North Sea: Monastic Interactions between the British Isles and the Low Countries’, Trajecta (2012) edited along with Jan De Maeyer and Kristien Suenens.

Chapters in peer-reviewed books:

‘ “Places of Memory”: Reflections on exploring religious archives’ in Reflections on Catholic Archives edited by Robin Gard (The Catholic Archives Society, 2002), pp. 50-7.

‘Medical Philanthropy and civic culture: Protestants and Catholics united by a “common Christianity”’ in Proceedings – The First Danish History of Nursing Conference edited by Susanne Malchau Dietz (Dansk Sygeplejehistorisk Museum, 2009), pp. 107-22.

‘Women, religious ministry and female institution building’ in Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940 edited by Sue Morgan and Jacqueline deVries (Routledge, 2010), pp. 72-93.

‘Introduction’ written with Laurence Lux-Sterritt in Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality:  Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900 edited by Carmen M. Mangion and Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 1-18.

‘The “Mixed Life”: Balancing the Active with the Contemplative’ in Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality:  Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900 edited by Carmen M. Mangion and Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 165-79.

‘ “Give them practical lessons”: Catholic women religious and the transmission of nursing knowledge in late nineteenth-century England’ in The Transmission of Health Practices (c. 1500 to 2000) edited by Martin Dinges and Robert Jütte (Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, 2011), pp. 89-104.

‘Developing Alliances: Faith, Philanthropy and Fundraising in nineteenth-century England’ in The Economics of Providence: Management, Finances and Patrimony of Religious Orders and Congregations in Europe 1773 to ca. 1930  edited by Maarten Van Dijck, Jan de Maeyer, Jeffrey Tyssens and Jimmy Koppen (Leuven University Press, 2013), pp. 205-26.

‘Avoiding “rash and Imprudent measures”: English Nuns in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1801’ in Communities, Culture and Identity: The English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800: Communities, Culture and Identity edited by Caroline Bowden and James E. Kelly (Ashgate, 2013), pp. 247-63.

‘ “Meeting a well-known want”: Catholic Specialist Hospitals for Long-Term Medical Care in Late Nineteenth-Century England and Wales’ in Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960 edited by Christopher Bonfield,  Jonathan Reinarz and Teresa Huguet-Termes (Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 239-62.

‘No nurses like the deaconesses’?: Protestant deaconesses and the medical marketplace in late nineteenth-century England’ in Deaconesses in Nursing Care – International Transfer of a Female Model of Life and Work in the 19th and 20th Century edited by Susanne Kreutzer and Karen Nolte (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016), pp. 161-84.

‘London’s Catholic almspeople’ in New Perspectives on Philanthropy: the British Almshouse 1400-1914 edited by Helen Caffrey, Nigel Goose and Anne Langley (FACHRS, 2016), pp. 347-64.

‘Filles de la charité et sourds-muets. Une histoire transnationale (1869-1901)’ in Des Filles de la Charité aux sœurs de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul: quatre siècles de «cornettes» (XVIIe-XXe s.) edited by Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée (Honoré Champion, 2016), pp. 291-308.

‘Syon Abbey’s “Second Summer”, 1900-1950’ in Continuity and Change. Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington 2015 edited by Elin Andersson, Claes Gejrot, Eddie Jones and Mia Åkestam (Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitetsakademien, 2017), pp. 367-88.

‘ “Shades of difference”: Poor Clares in Britain’ in Le Concile Vatican II et le monde des religieus (Europe occidentale et Amérique du Nord, 1950-1980) edited by Christian Sorrel (LARHRA, 2019), pp. 317-329.

In process:

‘Local and global:  Religious institutes, Catholic Internationalism and the Peru Mission’, Europe’s Internationalists: Rethinking the Short Twentieth Century edited by Jessica Reinisch and David Brydan (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2020)

‘Religious suffrage Societies’ in Women’s Suffrage edited by Krista Cowman (Routledge, forthcoming 2021).

‘British and Irish religious life: Vocations, structures, social change’ in Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, 1914-2000 edited by Alana Harris (Oxford, forthcoming 2022).

‘Introduction’ written with Susan O’Brien in Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, 1830-1913 edited by Susan O’Brien and Carmen M. Mangion (Oxford, forthcoming 2022)

 ‘Structures of Faith: British and Irish Catholic communities 1830-1913’ in Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, 1830-1913 edited by Susan O’Brien and Carmen M. Mangion (Oxford, forthcoming 2022)

 ‘Educating English Catholic medical missionaries, 1920s-1950s’ in Women’s missionary congregations Education, Care and Humanitarianism : A Transnational History (19th-20th centuries) edited by Bruno Dumons (forthcoming 2022)