Who Were The Nuns

“Who were the Nuns?” NEW RESEARCH PROJECT (2008 – 2011)

Who were the Nuns? A Study of the English Convents in Exile in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Department of History Queen Mary, University of London

Professor Michael Questier and Dr. Caroline Bowden have secured funding for a major AHRC research project entitled “Who were the Nuns? A Study of the English Convents in Exile in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries“. The doctoral student is yet to be announced. This project will provide an important contribution to the growing research into the great English Catholic Diaspora. Possible themes for the PhD include: patronage networks supporting the convents; the nature of the patronage offered by some of the convents to the Jacobites after 1688; and the contribution of the convents and conventual networks to the changing of attitudes towards Catholicism in eighteenth-century England. Female members of religious orders, particularly archivists, in the U.K. (and abroad) are encouraged to contact Dr. Simon P. Johnson who will relay to the Project Co-ordinator). If there are any general enquiries from iRecusants then please get in touch or follow the following web pages. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES: http://fmrsi.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/ahrc-phd-studentship/#comments (General Project Synopsis) http://www.rhul.ac.uk/bedford-centre/history-women-religious/bowdencv.html (Dr. Caroline Bowden, Project Co-ordinator)