British Catholic History

Papers
(The TQCC of British Catholic History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Henry A. Jefferies and Richard Rex (eds), Reformations Compared: Religious Transformations across Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2024. pp. 292. £25.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-1-00-946863-3.1
Army style, we marched: War and peace in the cross-carrying pilgrimages to Vézelay and Walsingham, 1946-19481
Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower , eds. Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction Cham: Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. XVI1
Frederick E. Smith, Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England: Mobility, Exile and Counter-Reformation, 1530-1580, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. xv +280, £90.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-286599-10
Kathryn G. Lamontagne, Reconsidering Lay Catholic Womanhood: Pious Transgressors in Late Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century England, Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, pp. 189, £130.00, ISBN 978-10
Deirdre Raftery , Teresa Ball and Loreto Education: Convents and the Colonial World 1794–1875, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022, pp. 211, €40.00, ISBN: 97818468297650
Jaime Goodrich, Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600 –1800, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, pp. 240, $59.95, ISBN: 978-0-8173-2103-1.0
Henry Constable: The Complete Poems, ed. by María Jesús Pérez-Jáuregui, Studies and Texts 232; Catholic and Recusant Texts of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods 5. Toronto: Pontifical Institut0
Roundtable discussion: The History of British and Irish Catholicism: Past, Present and Future0
Susan M. Cogan, Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England. Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, pp. 296, €124.00, ISBN: 978-94-6372-694-80
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Jane Whitaker, Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses after the Dissolution, London: Unicorn, 2021, pp. 404, £35.00, ISBN: 9781913491918.0
‘The “inward warre”: William Habington’s Castara (1640) and an early modern Catholic poetics’0
Prize Announcement: The British Catholic History Best Article Prize0
Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024, pp. viii + 248, £85.00, ISBN: 978-1-5261-7723-00
Ulrich Lehner and Shaun Blanchard eds., The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2021 pp. 304, $34.95, ISBN: 97808132339870
Emily Vine , Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp. x + 262, £90.00, ISBN: 9781009457194.0
Leith Davis, Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. ix + 307, £75.00, ISBN: 9780
Jacob Phillips, John Henry Newman and the English Sensibility: Distant Scene, London: T & T Clark, 2023, pp. 148, ISBN 97895676890470
Nicholas Orme, Going to Church in Medieval England, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021, pp. vii + 483, £20.00, ISBN: 978-03002565050
Gardens, Religion and Clerical By-Employments: the dual careers of Hugh Hall, Priest-Gardener of the West Midlands0
Crawford Gribben, The rise and fall of Christian Ireland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 352, £25.00, ISBN 97801988681870
Allan I. Macinnes, Patricia Barton, and Kieran German, eds., Scottish Liturgical Traditions and Religious Politics: From Reformers to Jacobites, 1540–1764, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021,0
Eilish Gregory, Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2021, pp. viii + 234, £75, ISBN: 9781783275946.0
Nicholas Schofield, Victorian Crusaders: British and Irish Volunteers in the Papal Army 1860-70, Warwick: Helion and Company, 2022, pp. xv + 205, £29.95, ISBN: 978-1-915070-53-10
Frances Nolan, The Jacobite Duchess: Frances Jennings, Duchess of Tyrconnell, c.1649–1731, Irish Historical Monographs series, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021, pp. xvi + 257, £50.00, ISBN: 978-1-70
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Eoin Kinsella, Catholic survival in Protestant Ireland, 1660-1711: Colonel John Browne, landownership, and the Articles of Limerick, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2018, pp. xvi + 340, £75, ISBN 978-10
Philip Perry, Essay on the Life and Manners of Robert Grosseteste, edited by Jack P. Cunningham, Woodbridge: Catholic Record Society: Record Series Volume 89, The Boydell Press, 2022, pp. l + 247, £500
Simon Johnson, The English College at Lisbon 1622–1972. Leominster: Gracewing, 2023, pp. 224, £25.00, ISBN 978 085244 701 70
Carmel Gallagher, Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, 215 pp, £145.00. ISBN 978-1-032-68015-60
Sir Edward Carne of Ewenni, c.1496-1561 — CORRIGENDUM0
W.M. Jacob, Religious Vitality in Victorian London, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 368, £75, ISBN: 978-0-19-289740-40
Mary Ann Lyons and Brian Mac Cuarta eds, The Jesuit Mission in Early Modern Ireland, 1560-1760, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022, pp. 272, £50.00, ISBN: 978-18015102570
The Long Dissolution0
Lady Sophia Bulkeley’s Share: Exile, Poverty and Catholic Proselytism Between Rome and Saint-Germain-en-Laye0
Victor Stater , Hoax: The Popish Plot that Never Was. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022, pp. xxi + 313, £20.00, ISBN: 978-03001238070
Aude Attuel-Hallade, An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe, 1789–1870. London: Bloomsbury, 2024, pp. xi + 216, ISBN 9781350371057.0
Catholics, property, and the experience of the penal laws in eighteenth-century England: Evidence from the Vincent Eyre Manuscripts0
Thomas Kaufmann, The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 358. £35.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-884104-3.0
John Maiden, Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945-1980, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 261, £115.00, ISBN: 97801988474960
Carlos Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023, pp. 512, £30, ISBN: 9780300259803.0
Through a glass darkly? Modern Catholicism in Britain and Ireland through the Catholicism in Numbers datasets0
T.A. Birrell, Aspects of Recusant History, eds. Jos Blom, Frans Korsten, Frans Blom, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, pp. xiii, 236, ISBN, ISBN 97803673644340
Carys Brown, Friends, Neighbours, Sinners: Religious Difference and English Society, 1689-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. x + 284, £75.00, ISBN: 978-1-009-2213-20
Paul Smith, Catholics and the law in Restoration Ireland, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025, viii + 236 pp, £85 hardback, ISBN: 9781526176356.0
Alan Dures and Francis Young, English Catholicism, 1558–1642, Second edition, Abingdon: Routledge, 2022, pp. viii+ 155, £34.99, ISBN 978-0-367-67230-0.0
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Benjamin M. Guyer , How the English Reformation was Named: The Politics of History, c. 1400-1700, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp.240, £65.00/$85, ISBN: 978-0-19-286572-4.0
Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower, eds. Mary I in writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation, Cham : Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2022, pp. xvii, 298, £109.90
Dr Marie Rowlands0
Susan Powell, ed., The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509): From the Archives of St John’s College, Cambridge, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2022, pp. 70
Alien control measures and their effect on European born clergy and religious in the Diocese of Salford during the Great War0
Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland, eds., Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024, £90.00, pp. 352, ISBN 97810
Thomas Rist , The Catholicism of Literature in the Age of the Book of Common Prayer: Poetry, Plays, Works 1558-1689, Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2025, pp. 264, £85.00, ISBN 978152618330
Arvind Thomas, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2019, pp. xiv + 267, $81.00, ISBN: 97814875024610
Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and Berta Cano-Echevarría, eds., Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020, pp. xi + 232, €105.00, ISBN: 970
London Catholicism, embassy chapels, and religious tolerance in late Jacobean polemic0
Prize Announcement: The British Catholic History Best Article Prize0
Aidan Enright, Charles Owen O’Conor, the O’Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022, pp. 244, €50, ISBN: 978-1-80151-040-0
‘Master Smokey Swyne’s-Flesh’: Francis Bacon and the responses to the Edward Squire conspiracy0
Shahmima Akhtar, Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c.1850-1970, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024, pp. 240, £85.00 ISBN 97815261572630
Michael D. Breidenbach, Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2021, pp. xii + 356, £36.95, ISBN: 0
Memory, myth and memorialization: Catholic martyrs and martyrologies in early modern England0
The End of the Beginning?0
Nicholas Orme, The History of England’s Cathedrals. Yale University Press, New Haven & London. 2024. xii + 306 pp. ISBN 9780300275483. £20.00 pbk.0
David Salter, St Francis and Cultural Memory: The Franciscans and English National Identity from Chaucer to the Gothic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, £85, pp. 208, ISBN 9780199292097.0
Resurrection and reconstruction of the Meditationes Vitae Christi in early modern England0
Cardinal Archbishop0
Ulrich L. Lehner, The Inner Life of Catholic Reform. From the Council of Trent to the Enlightenment, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. xi + 294, £22.99, ISBN: 97801976206010
Robert E. Stillman , Christian Identity, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame UP, 2021, pp. x, 477, $95.00 (hardback), $75.990
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Confessionalism and mobility in early modern Ireland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 373, £90.00, ISBN: 97801988709130
Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture, London: Routledge, 2021, pp. ix + 236, £120, ISBN: 978-0-367-44420-4.0
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Michael Hodgetts KSG, 1936–20220
Announcement: New Catalogue of Early Modern Manuscripts at Stonyhurst Archive0
Tom O’Donoghue and Judith Harford, Piety and Privilege: Catholic Secondary Schooling in Ireland and The Theocratic State, 1922–1967 Oxford University Press, 2021. 256pp. £75.00. ISBN: 97801928431660
Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine, Tessa Whitehouse, eds., Religion and Lifecycles in Early Modern England, Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2021, pp. 328, £85.00, ISBN: 978-1-5261-4927.0
Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer, Habsburg England: Politics and Religion in the Reign of Philip I (1554-1558), Leiden: Brill, 2023, pp. XVIII, 344, €146.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-42196-70
Peter Davidson, Relics, Dreams, Voyages. World Baroque. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024, £85.00, ISBN: 978-1-5261-6934-10
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English Catholic Seamen in Spanish Service during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)0
Koji Yamamoto (ed.), Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England: Puritans, papists, and projectors, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, xii + 330 pp., £25.00, ISBN: 978-1-5261-190
Catholic Appetites: Food, Faith and Englishmen in Counter-Reformation Rome0
John Carter Wood, ed., Christian Modernities in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century, Abingdon: Routledge, (2023), pp. 174, £ 96.00, ISBN: 97810324139450
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Keith Hanley, Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature: Protestant and Catholic Refigurings of the Bible and Christian Tradition, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, pp. i-xx, 231, ISBN 97830317518440
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Paul Richards and Perri 6, Mary Douglas, Berghahn: Oxford, 2023, pp.164, £107, ISBN: 978-1-80073-979-60
The Richmonds, Palestine and the Catholic Press, 1967-800
Destruction, Deconstruction, and Dereliction: Music for St Thomas of Canterbury during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1530-16000
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Joy Rowe FSA, 1926–20200
‘Having drunk heresy with their (mother’s) milk’: English Protestant converts to Catholicism in Malta, 1600–17980
Theresa Earenfight, Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England, University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021, pp. xiv + 251, £26.75, ISBN: 97802710916480
Oliver Cromwell Revisited0
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Bishop Richard Russell: English Episcopal Life in Portugal (1669-85)0
The English Jesuits, Architecture, and the House Libraries at Stonyhurst in the Nineteenth Century0
Lucy Wooding, Tudor England. A History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022, pp. 708, £30.00, ISBN: 978-0-300-16272-10
Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker, Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, pp. 768, $40, ISBN: 978-0-300-25986-50
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The Conversion of Sir Tobie Matthew: Homosocial Bonds and Affective Networks in Early Modern Catholicism0
Neil Younger, Religion and Politics in Elizabethan England: The Life of Sir Christopher Hatton, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, pp. 270 + xii, £85.00, ISBN: 978-1-5261-5949-6.0
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Fr Simon Bordley, eighteenth-century recusant priest, schoolmaster and trader in ‘two-legged cattle’0
Professor Vincent Alan McClelland, MA, PhD, FRHistS0
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