Caroline Bowden
is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, and formerly director of the Who Were the Nuns? Project funded by the ahrc. Her recent publications include two editions of convent manuscripts, most recently Chronicles of Nazareth (The English Convent) Bruges (2017). She has published a number of papers on the English convents in exile and is currently developing research on schooling in the convents.
Susan M. Cogan
is an Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University. Her first book, Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence, was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2021. She is the coeditor, with Rosemary O’Day, of a volume of essays on sibling relationships in early modern England.
Peter Davidson
is a Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Fellow-Curator of the Hall’s art collection. He is managing editor for the Oxford University Press’s Complete Works of St Robert Southwell, to be published in five volumes.
Anne Dillon
was the editor of British Catholic History from 2010 to 2018. Her published work includes The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535–1603 (2002), and Michelangelo and the English Martyrs (2012). Her current research focuses on Catholic martyrdom in Britain and Japan during the early modern period, the material culture of recusant households, and the Confraternity of the Rosary.
Angela Ellis
received her PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches at a number of colleges and universities in upstate New York, including the University at Albany, where she received the President’s Excellence Award in Teaching in 2019.
has been Curator of Collections and Historic Libraries at Stonyhurst College since 2001. She has published on numerous aspects of English Catholic material culture, including Identity, Education and Mission in the English Jesuit College of St Omer (2018), and Relics and Cultures of Commemoration in the English Jesuit College of St Omers in the Spanish Netherlands (2019), as well as on the 17th-century vestments of Helena Wintour (2015), and Jacobite relics in the Stonyhurst Collections (2012).
Victor Houliston
is a Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has published extensively on the early English Jesuit controversialist and missionary leader Robert Persons, including a critical edition of The Christian Directory (1998), a study of his polemical writings, Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England (2007), and an edition of his Correspondence and Unpublished Papers (vol. 1, 2017), with two more volumes forthcoming.
Gary W. Jenkins
is currently the Director of the St Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture, and editor of the St Basil Society’s journal, The Basilian, having served from 2002 till 2020 as the Van Gorden Professor of History at Eastern University. He is the author of John Jewel and the English National Church, and Calvin’s Tormentors; and co-editor of Liberal Learning and the Great Christian Traditions (with Jonathan Yonan), and of From Rome to Zurich, between Ignatius and Vermigli: Essays in Honor of John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. (with Kathleen Comerford and W.J. Torrance Kirby).
John McCafferty
is Professor of History at University College Dublin and, since 2017, Chair of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. His research focuses on church history and history of belief in Ireland and Britain from 1500 to 1700. He is also Director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute at ucd, a unique partnership with the Franciscan Order in Ireland.
Lisa McClain
is a Professor of History and Gender Studies at Boise State University. She specializes in the history of Catholicism in the British Isles during the Reformation era and the intersections of gender, religion, and popular culture. Among her publications are Divided Loyalties? Pushing the Boundaries of Gender and Lay Roles in the Catholic Church, 1534–1829 (2018), and Lest We Be Damned: Practical
Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
commuted between the Jesuit Archives in London and the Historical Institute in Rome for 20 years. Currently he is a Visiting Research Fellow at Loyola University, Maryland. Among his many works is “And Touching Our Society”: Fashioning Jesuit Identity in Elizabethan England (2013). Current projects include the correspondence of Robert Persons, S.J.; the correspondence of the 18th-century Jesuit John Thorpe; and a study of the religious life of the early modern English Jesuits.
Adam Morton
is Senior Lecturer in British History at Newcastle University. He has research interests in the British Reformations, visual culture, and anti-Catholicism, and has published widely in those areas. His most recent publications include The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain, 1500–1800 (co-edited with Mark Knights) (2017), and Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500–1800 (co-edited with Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly) (2016).
Peter Phillips
is a priest of the Shrewsbury Diocese in North West England. He currently holds an honorary fellowship in the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham, and amongst other publications has written a major study of the priest and historian John Lingard.
Robert E. Scully, S.J.
is a Professor of History and Law at Le Moyne College, specializing in the British Reformations and early modern Catholicism. Among his publications are Into the Lion’s Den: The Jesuit Mission in Elizabethan England and Wales, 1580–1603 (2011), and “The Catholic/Counter Reformation,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret King (2020). He is currently working on the Jesuits Robert Southwell and Francis Xavier, as well as on early modern conversion and travel narratives.
Colleen M. Seguin
is an Associate Professor of History at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, where she teaches a diverse array of history and humanities courses. She has a particular interest in the history of Catholic Englishwomen and their families. Her article “Ambiguous Liaisons: Catholic Women’s Relationships with
William J. Sheils
is a Professor Emeritus and former Head of History at the University of York, UK. He has published widely on post-Reformation religious history in Britain, writing on Anglicans, Puritans, Dissenters, and Catholics. He was presented with a festschrift, Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England, ed. Nadine Lewycky and Adam Morton (2012), on his retirement. He has been Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and Chair of Council of the Catholic Record Society.
Jane Stevenson
is a Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and a member of the English Faculty. She previously taught at Cambridge, Sheffield, Warwick, and Aberdeen. She has worked in a variety of areas, mostly relating to Latin and the classical tradition, women’s history, and exiles, particularly recusants. Her publications include Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (2005). Her most recent book is Baroque Between the Wars (2018).
Hannah Thomas
is Special Collections Manager and Research Fellow at the Bar Convent, York, and Research Associate at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York. She is the author of The Secret Cemetery: A Guide to the Burial Ground of the English Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre (2017), Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe (co-edited with James Kelly) (2018), and Jesuit Libraries in Early Modern England and Wales (forthcoming 2022). Her research interests include Catholic burial practices, Welsh Catholicism in the post-Reformation era, and Catholic uses of libraries.
Anne R. Throckmorton
is an Associate Professor of History at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. She was a contributor to History, Fiction and The Tudors: Sex, Politics, Power, and Artistic License in the Showtime Television Series (2016). Her research focuses on the impact of religious change on early modern England.
is the author of Aberdeenshire: North in the Buildings of Scotland Series, co-author of Aberdeenshire: South, and a contributor to Lanarkshire.
Jonathan Wright
is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. He has published widely in the area of religious history, including Reformers and Reformations (2015), and has served as a reviews editor at the Journal of Jesuit Studies and the Religious Studies Review.