21 Monday May 2018
Posted in Conference, History, Ireland, Societies
On the 7th and 8th June the annual History of Religious Women conference will be taking place in Galway.
For more information or to book, please follow this link
27 Friday Jan 2017
Posted in CD's, Church Records, Family History, Societies
The Manchester and Lancashire Family History have released their latest CD of Catholic baptisms, this volume contains the following Manchester Catholic registers:
It is available for the very reasonable price of £4.25 from their Online Bookshop
27 Friday Jan 2017
Posted in Archives, General Information, History, Societies
The project to digitise and catalogue onto an online hub the entire personal archive of Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman is now underway.
Every single letter and diary has been meticulously scanned at John Rylands’ Library, Manchester, and an internet kiosk has been designed by software company Crivella West Inc. of Pittsburgh.
The kiosk project is the first of its kind and when completed will provide complete online access to the Newman collection. It is hoped that it might lead the way to other projects particularly within the world of Catholic archives.
The project
is a collaborative effort between the National Institute of Newman Studies, attached to the Pittsburgh Oratory in America, and the Birmingham Oratory where the archives are held.
The Newman Institute is a purpose built residential research library and centre providing previously unprecedented
access to Newman’s life and works, the Institute also fosters the advancement of Newman scholarly research by inviting scholars to utilise the resources of the Newman Research Library in order to pursue academic work specifically related to Newman Studies, and in partnership with Duqesne University has set up scholarship programmes to this end.
To keep up to date with progress, follow the Newman Institute on Twitter @NewmanStudies
Or visit their website
12 Sunday Jun 2016
The Midland Catholic History Society and the English Catholic History Society are organising a trip to Worcester to visit St George’s Church & the Worcester Cathedral Library and Archive.
St George’s Church was built by the Jesuits in 1829, and taken over by the Archdiocese of Birmingham in 1990.
The cost is £10 and can be booked with the attached form Mid Cath Hist Soc
18 Monday Jan 2016
Posted in Archives, Family History, General Information, Ireland, Societies
The Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society are offering a one day course in tracing your Irish ancestors.
The course fee is £25 and will be held on the 6th February 2016 at Manchester Central Library, find out more and book here
17 Wednesday Jun 2015
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Details of an event announced by the English Catholic History Association
Downside Abbey Monastery Library and Archive invites you to an exhibition and evening lecture focusing on the conservation of the Downside drawings of A.W.N. Pugin on Monday 29th June in the St Bede Centre.
The Library intern, Anthi Souliti, has spent part of her internship conserving the plans held in the archives and the exhibition is the culmination of her work here.
For more information please click here
11 Monday May 2015
Posted in Events, General Information, Meetings, Societies
Oscott College, Chester Road, Sutton Coldfield, B73 5AA
Thursday 11th June 2015: Nationality, Religion and Music: the Stuarts in exile
10.30 Arrivals and coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Lecture: Dr Gabriel Glickman, (University of Warwick, author of The English Catholic Community 1688-1745) – Jacobitism and Catholics in the Three British Kingdoms
12.45 Lunch – Special Exhibition open. College chapel and museum open to visitors.
2.00 – 3.30 Lecture: Dr Edward Corp, (University of Toulouse, author of The Stuarts in Italy 1719-66: a Royal Court in permanent exile, and other works on the exiled Stuarts) – Religion, Nationality and Music at the exiled Stuart Courts
3.30 – 4.00 Tea
4.30 – 5.30 Abbot Geoffrey Scott (Douai Abbey), (co-editor of Catholic Gentry in English Society: the Throckmortons of Coughton, and author of Gothic Rage Undone: English Monks in the Age of Enlightenment) – Illustrated Lecture: ‘Stuart images and a Chapel in exile’ (the private chapel of Queen Maria Clementina in Rome)
6.00 Buffet Supper
7.30 Concert by Cappella Fede and Harmonia Sacra directed by Peter Leech – The Cardinal King: rediscovered music composed for Henry Benedict Stuart in Rome 1740-90
Various booking packages available for the day and/or evening. For all further information and bookings, please contact Mrs Maggie Wilson.
11 Monday May 2015
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Tuesday 19 May at 7.30 pm
Annual General Meeting in the Masterson Room at St Chad’s Cathedral House. The meeting will be followed by an illustrated talk from Michael Hodgetts on the priest hides of the Archdiocese. His Grace the Archbishop, President of the Society, will be attending the meeting this year.
Thursday 2 July at 11.00 am
Visit to Brailes to include Mass and talk by Fr Brian Doolan on Bishop William Bishop followed by lunch in the village.
( the planned visit to Worcester has been postponed until 2016 because Worcester Cathedral library is not available for group tours for much the current year
Tuesday 15 September
Visit to the Triangular Lodge and Lyveden New Bield in Northamptonshire
Further information is available from the Secretary, Mr Vincent Burke. If you wish to contact him please do so via www.catholic-history.org.uk/cfhs/ and follow the link to Catholic History.
16 Monday Mar 2015
Posted in General Information, Societies
As many of us have Irish ancestors I though this might be of interest. Thanks to Sylvia for sending me the article. The IGRS is the Irish Genealogical Research Society.
The IGRS – “The Great Granddaddy of all Irish Family History Societies” – announces the launch of an exciting enhancement to its ‘Irish Genealogist Database’.
The Irish Genealogist (TIG) has been published annually since 1937 and comprises thousands of articles relating to Irish genealogy, noting details on family histories, pedigrees, leases, memorial inscriptions, deeds, newspaper extracts and transcripts of parish registers, voters lists, census substitutes, wills, letters, family bibles, rentals and militia & army rolls. The list is endless!
A free online Names Index to TIG, comprising in excess of a quarter of a million names, has been available on the Society’s website since autumn 2013. Now, following an intensive project to scan images of the journal’s articles, the database will link researchers directly to articles that match their search criteria. Initially, the Society is launching images of volume 10 of TIG (covering the years 1998-2001) and these will be followed with regular releases right up to volume 13 (up to 2013).
Announcing details of the enhanced database, IGRS Chairman Steven Smyrl said: “The Society’s annual journal has been to the forefront of Irish genealogy for almost 80 years. With the launch of this new database, those pursuing their Irish ancestors, no matter where they live, will now be able to access the treasure of data locked away in its pages.”
This links to the TIG database page: www.irishancestors.ie/?page_id=3039
13 Thursday Feb 2014
Posted in General Information, History, Societies
The MIDLAND CATHOLIC HISTORY SOCIETY was formed in 1996 by the merger of the Staffordshire Catholic History Society and the Worcestershire Catholic History Society. They have a program of events through the year and produce Midland Catholic History which contains articles on post-Reformation Catholic History, of interest to the general reader as well as to historians and antiquarians, and is an essential aid to the local Catholic historian.
You can find more details on their website by following this link.
Catholic Family History 