Bishops’s Registers of London and Midland District Confirmations

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London, Midlands

A (comparatively) long time ago our society produced printed publications of register transcriptions. Obviously the stocks that we hold go down over the years as items are sold. The source documents for many of these publications are now lost and so it would be very difficult to arrange a reprint, and even if we had the originals printing costs have risen and it might be uneconomic.

I’ve just completed scanning the Bishops’ Registers as they had gone out of print, and these are now available as PDFs on CD-ROM via GENfair here. Apart from keeping the information available there is an additional benefit for our customers in that we can make both publications available on a single disk at the same price that one of the printed books was sold for.

Event at Oscott College (Sutton Coldfield)

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jacobites, Midlands, Stuarts

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.

MIDLAND CATHOLIC HISTORY SOCIETY Events in 2015

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Midlands

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.

Staffordshire History Day 2015

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history, Midlands, Staffordshire

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive service in collaboration with Keele University and the Centre for West Midland History at Birmingham University are putting on their annual Staffordshire history day  at the Kingston Centre, Stafford on Saturday 28 March 2015, 10.00am-5.00pm. Further information from Julie O’Neill, Tel. 01785 278483, email julie.oneill@Staffordshire.gov.uk

Reblogged fromthe Midland Catholic History Society

Sights and Sounds of Recusant England

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England, Midlands

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

Midland Catholic History Society

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England, history, Midlands, useful

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.