The Catholic Material Culture UK group are pleased to announce the publication of Grace, Piety & Memory: The Material Culture of British Catholics 1534-1850. Artefacts are held in many Catholic archive collections and are important features of community identity and memory. This booklet is offered as a short guide to understanding the challenges of caring for, documenting … Continue reading New Catholic Material Culture Publication
AHRC-RLUK Fellowship Report by Dr Jonathan Bush (Durham University) Jonathan spoke about his AHRC-RLUK funded project at this year's CAS Conference and we are pleased to post a link to his completed fellowship report : AHRC-RLUK-Fellowship-Report (1)Download
Barbara Vesey England and Wales Provincial Archivist, Society of the Sacred Heart On the campus of Digby Stuart College at the University of Roehampton there is a War Memorial that is distinctive in having been erected several months before the war ended, in May of 1918. The Memorial is also unusual in that some of those … Continue reading Artefacts in Archives Series : Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart War Memorials
By Naomi Johnson : Naomi is the curator archivist for the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, maintaining the historic collections and buildings of the diocesan seminary, St Mary’s College Oscott and the archives of the Archdiocese, housed at St Chad’s Cathedral. I often joke to visitor’s at St Mary’s College, Oscott, that the Pugin designed ceremonial … Continue reading Artefacts in Archives Series: Unlocking a door to the past – The Key to St Peter’s Church, Birmingham
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