The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume IV Building Identity, 1830-1913

Carmen M. Mangion, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck University of London, Susan O'Brien, Senior Member, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge

Carmen M. Mangion teaches modern British history at Birkbeck University of London. Her research examines the cultural and social history of gender and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain relating to the formation and re-imagining of religious identities during times of social change. Her current research has two strands, the first examines the decline of the lay sister category of religious life. The second, interrogates the gendered nature of the Catholic medical missionary movement, 1891-1951, in both Britain and Ireland.


Susan O'Brien is a Senior Member of St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge and a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Staffordshire University and former Principal of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge. Her research has centred on transatlantic evangelical revivalism and nineteenth-century Catholicism in Britain, Ireland, and France. She is currently working on two projects: the edited correspondence of Frances Margaret Taylor (1832-1900) and an oral-based history of Catholic religious men and women in inner city ministry in England 1970-2000.

1. Catholic Revivals in Britain and Ireland, Carmen M. Mangion
2. Episcopal Leaders and Leadership, Peter Doyle
3. Architecture and Buildings: Building the Post-Emancipation Church, Kate Jordan
4. Priests, priesthood, and parish life, Judith Champ
5. Education and schooling, Maurice Whitehead,Deirdre Raftery,Jane McDermid
6. Caritas: poverty and social action, Ciarán McCabe
7. Devotional and Sacramental Cultures, Salvador Ryan
8. The Blessed Virgin Mary, Susan O'Brien
9. Music as Theology, Bennett Zon
10. Anti-Catholicism and Religious Rivalry, John Wolffe
11. Catholics, Politics, and the State in Britain, V. Alan McClelland
12. Church and State, and Nationalism in Ireland, Oliver P. Rafferty
13. Catholic Fiction: Catholics in Fiction, James H. Murphy
14. Irish Diaspora and Ireland's Spiritual Empire, Colin Barr
15. Overseas Missions, Hilary M. Carey
16. Modernity and Anti-Modernism, 1850-1910, Andrew Pierce