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The Families commemorated in Armorial Windows at St Mary’s College, Oscott, Warwickshire

03 Monday Jan 2022

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Upcoming Talk

22 January 2022, 2pm

SPEAKER

Naomi Johnson BSc, MSc, is the Archivist at the archives of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and Museum Curator at St Mary’s College, Oscott, Sutton Coldfield. 

SUMMARY 

Naomi has begun researching the families of young men who attended the school at Oscott College from the 1790’s until 1889, and who are commemorated in armorial windows there. To do this she has used various resources including those of the College, The Newspaper Archives, and Military Records. The talk will explain a little of the history of the windows and tell the stories of some of those whose stories have been uncovered. 

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If you would be interested in joining us online for this talk, then please contact us through cfhsrecords@gmail.com. You will in due course be sent a link for Zoom. If you do not have Zoom it is free and easy to download it to your device. Simply search for Zoom on your search engine and follow the instructions. We hope you will want to join us for what promises to be an enlightening talk.

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The Bridgettines of Syon Abbey

21 Thursday Oct 2021

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Upcoming talk 20 November 2pm

 CARMEN M. MANGION is a Senior Lecturer in the department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research examines the cultural and social history of gender and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain focusing on the formation and rethinking of identities during times of social change. She is the author of Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age, Britain 1945-1990 (2020) and Contested Identities: Catholic Women Religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales (2008) and other publications. 

ABSTRACT 

The story of the Bridgettines of Syon Abbey has been remembered as one of triumph over adversity. They were one of two religious orders that were not dispersed after the Reformation, and the only one of the two to have survived thus retaining an unbroken line of succession from the original community founded in south-west London in 1415. After much ‘wanderings’ on the Continent and a short return to England in 1557 during the reign of Mary I, the community settled in Lisbon in 1599. Their permanent return to England in 1861 was celebrated in the Catholic press. This paper is about a lesser-known facet of their history, and examines Syon’s first return in 1809, when, threatened by the approach of Napoleon’s revolutionary forces, ten members of the Syon community in Lisbon returned to England. The paper begins by outlining the story of the 1809 departure from Lisbon. It then moves to what we know of the events that unfolded in England, identifying the individual Bridgettines, the places they resided, and their benefactors. It examines in depth the individual stories of two sisters who are dispersed, examining the fidelity to their identities as Bridgettines. Then, it considers the memory of the 1809 return interrogating how the history of the first return has been remembered and documented arguing the preoccupations of the twentieth century have shaped how the story of Syon’s first return has been told. 

If you would be interested in joining us online for this talk, then please contact us through cfhsrecords@gmail.com. You will in due course be sent a link for Zoom. If you do not have Zoom it is free and easy to download it to your device. Simply search for Zoom on your search engine and follow the instructions. We hope you will want to join us for what promises to be an enlightening talk. 

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Scottish Catholic Records

16 Thursday Sep 2021

Posted by Lawrence Gregory | Filed under Events, Family History, General Information

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Zoom Talk – Venerable Elizabeth Prout

03 Saturday Jul 2021

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Zoom Talk – The Hero of the Oak Tree

17 Saturday Apr 2021

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Saturday 22 May 2021 at 2pm GMT

A Zoom talk entitled:

The Hero of the Oak Tree,

Colonel Carless, the Catholic Recusant who saved King Charles II.

Colonel William Carless fought in the Royalist Army against the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Worcester and was a pivotal figure in the King’s escape survival.

Our speaker is Elaine T. Joyce, the author of the book Nine Witnesses for the Colonel – King Charles II’s Most True and Loyal Friend. Elaine has researched this subject thoroughly and gives insights into the lives and hardships of some of the ordinary Catholic people of Staffordshire in the seventeenth century. 

If you would be interested in joining us online for this talk, then please contact us through cfhsrecords@gmail.com. You will in due course be sent a link for Zoom. If you do not have Zoom it is easy and free to download it to your device. Simply search for Zoom on your search engine and follow the instructions. We hope you will want to join us for what promises to be an enlightening talk.

CONFERENCE 2020 – Ushaw College

15 Sunday Mar 2020

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We are delighted to announce our 2020 Conference at historic Ushaw College, we hope to see you there.

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Discussions on Medical Mission Films

02 Thursday May 2019

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Spend a Saturday at Birkbeck Cinema discussing how can we begin to assessing the motivations, reach and impact of medical mission film productions on local and global audiences, for more information follow this link

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/films-with-a-mission-tickets-60371587042

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Family Tree Live

23 Saturday Feb 2019

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Secrecy & Sanctity – 250 Years of the Bar Convent Chapel

23 Saturday Feb 2019

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Trip to Hope University

20 Monday Aug 2018

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