27 Tuesday May 2014
Posted in Conference, Events, FFHS, General Information
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We are very pleased to announce that the FFHS has awarded us a grant as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations. We will be using the money towards funding our 2014 Day Conference and AGM. 
24 Saturday May 2014
Posted in Children's Homes, Publications
Here is a scan of an article first published in Catholic Ancestor Volume 4 way back in February 1993. It contains a list of the various types of institutions that were in place to provide support and refuge to poor Catholics. You can use this in your own private research but no republishing without permission please.
12 Monday May 2014
Posted in Children's Homes
We often get asked about children’s homes and this new site by Peter Higginbotham is particularly useful.
The Children’s Homes website aims to provide information on all of the many and varied institutions that — for whatever reason — became home for thousands of children and young people in Britain. They include a wide variety of establishments ranging from orphanages, homes for those in poverty, and children with special needs, through to reformatories, industrial and approved schools, training ships, and hostels.
It has a small list of Roman Catholic homes, but there were many more than these. If the site gets updated regularly then it will become a very useful resource.
04 Sunday May 2014
Posted in Events
Where and When: St Mary’s College, Oscott, Birmingham – Friday 13 June 2014
Speakers:
Eamon Duffy ‘Recusants writing the Reformation’;
Anne Dillon ‘Seeing is believing’: Elizabethan Catholic images of martyrdom
Evening concert in the chapel by Cappella Fede directed by Peter Leech accompanied by a talk by Maurice Whitehead.
Further details about the programme, costs and booking from Mrs Maggie Wilson Tel.0121 321 5026; E mail Maggie.Wilson@Oscott.org
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