Professor Carmen M. Mangion
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Overview
Overview
Office hours
Please contact me by email to arrange for a meeting.
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Administrative responsibilities
- Programme Director of the Foundation Year for the School of Historical Studies
Professional memberships
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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2015- current)
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015, PR076685)
Honours and awards
- Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, Visiting Fellow Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, December 2023
- Durham Residential Research Library Fellowship Durham University, December 2022
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research overview
I am a social and cultural historian of gender and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. My research examines how religious identities were formed, understood and lived during times of social change. It highlights wider themes of religious and social identities; transnational religious life; intentional communities; Catholic internationalism; philanthropy and voluntary action; medicalised and sacred spaces; medical missions and the lived history of the Second Vatican Council.
My current research has two strands. The first examines religious life in inner city ministries after 1970. The second interrogates the decline of the lay sisters’ state of religious life, 1880s-1960.
Research clusters and groups
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome proposals for PhD dissertations on aspects of the social and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland with themes that reflect an interest in gender and religion (especially Catholicism, Anglo-Catholicism and religious life) as it intersects with internationalism, philanthropy/voluntary action, medical care and long 1960s social movements associated with the Second Vatican Council.
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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NICHOLAS EVANS
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JANET TYSON
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Writing the Past: Dissertation
- London: Places, Objects, Ideas
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Mangion, Carmen (2024) Faith, feminism and politics: the inter-war campaigning strategies of St Joan’s Social and Political Alliance. Modern British History ISSN 2976-7016.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2019) A new Internationalism: endeavouring to ‘build from this diversity, unity’, 1945-1990. Journal of Contemporary History 55 (3), pp. 579-601. ISSN 0022-0094.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2018) ‘Tolerable Intolerance’: Protestantism, Sectarianism and voluntary hospitals in late-nineteenth-century London. Medical History 62 (4), pp. 468-484. ISSN 0025-7273.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) Housing the ‘decayed members’ of the middle classes: social class and St Scholastica’s Retreat, 1861-1901. Continuity and Change 29 (3), pp. 373-398. ISSN 0268-4160.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Roundtable on Hilary M. Carey, "God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908". Britain and the World 6 (2), pp. 276-290. ISSN 2043-8567.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) The business of life: educating Catholic deaf children in late nineteenth-century England. History of Education 41 (5), ISSN 0046-760X.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) To console, to nurse, to prepare for eternity: the Catholic sickroom in late nineteenth-century England. Women's History Review 21 (4), pp. 657-678. ISSN 0961-2025.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) Faith, philanthropy and the aged poor in nineteenth-century England and Wales. European Review of History 19 (4), pp. 515-530. ISSN 1350-7486.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) Why would you have me live upon a gridiron?: pain, identity, and emotional communities in Nineteenth-Century English convent culture. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 15, ISSN 1755-1560.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2008) Britain's nineteenth-century Catholic almshouses. Catholic Ancestor 12 (2), pp. 73-79. ISSN 1350-1550.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2007) ‘Laying “Good Strong Foundations”: the power of the symbolic in the formation of a religious sister. Women's History Review 16 (3), pp. 403-415. ISSN 0961-2025.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2006) “Good teacher” or “good religious”?: the professional identity of Catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales. Women’s History Review 14 (2), pp. 223-242. ISSN 0961-2025.
Book
- Mangion, Carmen M. Mangion, Carmen M. and O'Brien, S., eds. (2023) The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, vol. IV - Building Identity, 1830-1913. Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism. IV, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198848196.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2019) Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age, Britain 1945-1990. Gender in History. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526140463.
- Mangion, Carmen M., ed. (2013) The Convents and the outside world. English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800. 6, London, UK: Pickering and Chatto. ISBN 9781848932159.
- Lux-Sterritt, L. and Mangion, Carmen M., eds. (2010) Gender, Catholicism and spirituality: women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900. Gender and History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230577602.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2008) Contested identities: Catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719076275.
Book review
- Mangion, Carmen (2024) John Maiden, Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945-1980 (2023).
- Mangion, Carmen (2023) The Catholic Church and Modern Sexual Knowledge, 1850–1950 by Lucia Pozzi (review).
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2015) Margaret H. Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) E. Fleischmann, S. Grypma, M. Marten & I.M. Okkenhaug (eds.), Transnational and Historical Perspectives on Global Health, Welfare and Humanitarianism.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) Abbie Reese, Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Nancy Lusignan Schultz, "Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow and the Cure That Shocked Washington City".
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Rene Kollar, "A Foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign against Convents in Victorian England".
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) S. Karly Kehoe, "Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, gender and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Scotland".
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) Edna Hamer, "Elizabeth Prout, 1820-1864: A Religious Life for Industrial England".
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2011) "Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The quest for Independence" by Sue Hawkins.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2011) "The Forgotten Contribution of the Teaching Sisters: A Historiographical Essay on the Educational Work of Catholic Women Religious in the 19th and 20th Centuries" by Bart Hellinckx, Frank Simon and Marc Depaepe.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2009) "Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1922-60" by Lindsey Earner-Byrne.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2008) "Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920" by Lise Sanders.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2007) Judith Jennings, "Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The ‘Ingenius Quaker’ and her connections’".
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2007) 'Gender, religion, and radicalism in the long eighteenth century: the 'ingenius quaker' and her connections, by Judith Jennings.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2006) Maria Luddy (ed), "The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy 1854-56".
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2006) 'The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy 1854-56' by Mary Luddy.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2005) Mary Sullivan (ed), The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2005) 'The correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841', by Mary Sullivan (ed).
Book section
- Mangion, Carmen (2026) Inserted communities and religious commitment in Post-Conciliar Britain, 1970s-2000s. In: Masquelier, J. and Crosetti, A.-S. (eds.) Committed Catholics. Religious involvement in health, education and social action after 1945. Problèmes d'histoire des religions. Brussels, Belgium: University of Brussels Press. ISBN 9782800419343.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2026) God's ambassadress and the English House of Syon, 1897-1947: cultural memory-making. In: Carillo-Rangel, D. (ed.) Birgittine Acts of Memory: Remembering St Birgitta of Sweden. Studies in Medieval Religions and Cultures. Routledge. ISBN 9781032121079. (In Press)
- Mangion, Carmen (2025) 'In the interests of justice, morality and religion’: St Joan's Social and Political Alliance, 1920s-1930s. In: Power, M. and Bush, J. (eds.) Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth Century Britain. Catholic Record Society: Monograph Series. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9780902832367.
- Mangion, Carmen (2025) Detachment as an "Emotional Practice" in British convents, 1950s-1970s. In: Fetheringill Zwicker, L. and Cucchiara, M. (eds.) Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond. Women and Gender in German Studies. London, UK: Camden House. pp. 146-166. ISBN 9781640141742.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2024) Religious suffrage societies. In: Cowman, K. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage. Routledge. ISBN 9781138557413.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2023) Women religious, charitable ministries and the welfare state. In: Harris, A. (ed.) Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, vol. V - Recapturing the Apostolate of the Laity, 1914-2021. Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198844310.
- O'Brien, S. and Mangion, Carmen M. (2023) Introduction. In: Mangion, Carmen M. and O'Brien, S. (eds.) The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, vol. IV - Building Identity, 1830-1913. Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780198848196.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2023) Catholic revivals in Britain and Ireland. In: Mangion, Carmen M. and O'Brien, S. (eds.) The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, vol. IV - Building Identity, 1830-1913. Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 13-35. ISBN 9780198848196.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2022) Representing Catholic medical missions in the English Press. Education, professionalism and internationality (1950-1970). In: Dumons, B. (ed.) Women’s Missionary Congregations: Education, Care and Humanitarianism : A Transnational History (19th-20th centuries). Rome, Italy: Norme Viella. ISBN 9791254692066.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2021) Local and global: women religious, Catholic internationalism and social justice. In: Reinisch, Jessica and Brydan, D. (eds.) Europe’s Internationalists: Rethinking the Short Twentieth Century. Histories of Internationalism. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350107359.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2019) “Shades of difference”: Poor Clares in Britain. In: Sorrel, Christian (ed.) Le Concile Vatican II et le monde des religieus (Europe occidentale et Amérique du Nord, 1950-1980). Chrétiens et Sociétés. Documents et Mémoires. LARHRA Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes. pp. 317-329. ISBN 9791091592239.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2017) Syon Abbey’s ‘Second Summer', 1900-1950. In: Gejrot, C. and Andersson, E. and Jones, E. and Åkestam, M. (eds.) Continuity and Change. Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington 2015. KVHAA Konferenser. Stockholm, Sweden: Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien. pp. 367-388. ISBN 9789174024494.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2016) 'No nurses like the deaconesses'?: Protestant deaconesses and the medical marketplace in late-nineteenth-century England. In: Nolte, K. and Kreutzer, S. (eds.) Deaconesses in Nursing Care: International Transfer of a Female Model of Life and Work in the 19th and 20th Century. Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 161-184. ISBN 9783515113557.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2016) Filles de la charité et sourds-muets. Une histoire transnationale (1869-1901). In: Brejon de Lavergnée, M. (ed.) Des Filles de la Charité aux sœurs de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul: quatre siècles de «cornettes» (XVIIe-XXe s.). Paris, France: Honoré Champion. ISBN 9782745330345.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2016) London’s Catholic almspeople. In: Goose, N. and Caffrey, H. and Langley, A. (eds.) New Perspectives on Philanthropy: The British Almshouse 1400-1914. London, UK: Family and Community Historical Research Society. pp. 347-364. ISBN 9780954818029.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Developing alliances: faith, philanthropy and fundraising in Nineteenth-Century England. In: Van Dijck, M. and de Maeyer, J. and Tyssens, J. and Koppen, J. (eds.) The Economics of Providence: Management, Finances and Patrimony of Religious Orders and Congregations in Europe 1773 to ca. 1930. KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. pp. 205-226. ISBN 9789058679154.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Avoiding "rash and imprudent measures": English nuns in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1801. In: Bowden, C. and Kelly, J.E. (eds.) The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800: Communities, Culture and Identity. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. pp. 247-263. ISBN 9781409450733.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) "Meeting a well-known want": Catholic health care in Nineteenth-Century Britain. In: Bonfield, C. and Reinarz, J. and Huguet-Termes, T. (eds.) Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang. pp. 239-262. ISBN 9783034302449.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2011) "Give them practical lessons": Catholic women religious and the transmission of nursing knowledge in late Nineteenth-Century England. In: Dinges, M. and Jütte, R. (eds.) The Transmission of Health Practices (c.1500 to 2000). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 89-104. ISBN 9783515098977.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2010) Women, religious ministry and female institution building. In: Morgan, S. and deVries, J. (eds.) Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940. Oxford, UK: Routledge. pp. 72-93. ISBN 9780415232135.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2010) The "mixed life": balancing the active with the contemplative. In: Lux-Sterritt, L. and Mangion, Carmen M. (eds.) Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality: Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe 1200-1900. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 165-179. ISBN 9780230577619.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2009) Medical philanthropy and civic culture: Protestants and Catholics united by a "common Christianity". In: Malchau Dietz, S. (ed.) Nursing and History: Proceedings - First Danish History of Nursing Conference. Aarhus, Denmark: Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University. ISBN 9788792261908.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2002) “Places of Memory”: exploring religious archives. In: Gard, R. (ed.) Reflections on Catholic Archives. London, UK: Catholic Archives Society. pp. 50-57. ISBN 9780907712008.
Editorial
- Mangion, Carmen M. and Bourke, Joanna and Hide, Louise (2012) Perspectives on Pain: Introduction. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 0 (15), Birkbeck University. ISSN 1755-1560.
Other
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) Dickinson, Frances (1755-1830). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.