CATHOLIC RECORD SOCIETY

(Registered Charity No. 313529)

Programme of the Society’s 51st Annual Conference

to be held from
Monday 28 July to Thursday 31 July 2008
at
Liverpool Hope University
(Hope Park Campus)
Taggart Avenue, Childwall, Liverpool L16 9JD
T: 0151 291 3000

Liverpool is European Capital of Culture, 2008

The aim of the Catholic Record Society’s Conference in 2008 is to

focus particularly on the historical, cultural and educational links
between the English and Welsh post-reformation Catholic
community and continental Europe, and to explore certain links
with the Liverpool area and its hinterland in this context.

Conference Director:
Professor Maurice Whitehead
Department of History, Swansea University, SA2 8PP
T: 01792 602279 – office hours
01792 204877 – evenings
E: M.Whitehead@swansea.ac.uk

Conference Secretary:
Professor R.W. Taylor
Keld Head, Keld, near Shap, Cumbria CA10 3QF
T: 01931 716553, Fax: 01931 716067
E: Ron.Taylor@mac.com
Monday 28 July 2008
[3 pm CRS Council Meeting]

4.30 pm Tea

5.15 pm Conference Secretary’s notices

5.20 pm The Conference in Context

Dr Simon Johnson, Department of History,
University of York

6.15 pm Reception

7.00 pm Dinner

8.00 pm ‘Not all paths lead to Rome’: European Travel in

the Archives of the Royal English College,
Valladolid
Reverend Peter Harris, Honorary Archivist,
Royal English College,Valladolid, and Ana Sáez
Hidalgo, Profesora Titular de Universidad,
Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Universidad
de Valladolid

Tuesday 29 July
7.45 am Holy Mass at the Redemptorist Church,
Bishop Eton (Annual Mass for deceased
members of the CRS)

8.00 am Breakfast

9.00 am Shakespeare and the Divisions within English

Catholicism
The Viscountess Asquith (Clare Asquith),
author of Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and
Coded Politics of William Shakespeare (2005)

10.15 am Coffee

10.45 am The Blundells of Ince Blundell as Collectors from

the 1760s to the 1830s
Xanthe Brooke, Curator of Continental European
Art, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Noon AGM of the Catholic Record Society
12.30 pm Lunch
1.15 pm Depart by coach for visits to Ince Blundell Hall
and to Little Crosby (visit to the Harkirk recusant
burial ground [1611], and St Mary’s Church
[1847]), followed by tea at Little Crosby.
**Cost (exc. tea) £7
6.00 pm Dinner
6.45 pm Depart by coach for St Francis Xavier’s (SFX)
Church, Liverpool (J.J. Scoles, architect, 1848),
for a Preview (by courtesy of Brother Ken Vance,
SJ) of Held in Trust: 2008 Years of Sacred
Culture – an exhibition of artefacts from the
Stonyhurst College and SFX Collections, which
will run for two months as a contribution to
Liverpool European Capital of Culture, 2008.
**Cost £5 (coach). Catalogue available for separate purchase.

Wednesday 30 July
7.45 am Holy Mass at Bishop Eton

8.00 am Breakfast

9.30 am Lamspringe Abbey: A Wider Look at the English

Monks in Germany, 1644-1803
Dom Anselm Cramer, OSB, Archivist,
Ampleforth Abbey

10.30 am Coffee

11.00 am ‘The Cathedral that never was …’: Lutyens and

Liverpool, 1928-2008
Joseph Sharples, School of Architecture,
University of Liverpool

12.30 pm Lunch

2.00 pm Work in Progress and Short Communications

3.15 pm Tea

3.45 - 4.30 pm Work in Progress and Short Communications

6.00 pm Dinner
7.00 pm Prompt departure of coach to St Francis Xavier’s
Church for
7.30 pm Glories and Majesty Revealed: A Concert of
Music from Seventeenth-Century England
A celebration of music, sacred and secular, from
the Stuart Catholic Chapels Royal in London and
from the English and Welsh Catholic community,
performed by Cappella Fede, conductor Peter
Leech, to mark the official opening of the
exhibition Held in Trust: 2008 Years of Sacred
Culture
**Total cost: £12.50 (coach £5, concert admission £7.50)

10.00 pm Return by coach

(approx.)

Thursday 31 July
7.45 am Holy Mass at Bishop Eton

8.00 am Breakfast

9.00 am ‘Terms as usual...’ - Douai, Crook, Ushaw:

Replanting Douai in the North of England, 1794-1808
Reverend Dr Peter Phillips, St Mary of the
Angels Church, Hooton, South Wirral
10.30 am Coffee
11.00 am ‘To whom should we turn?’: the English and
Welsh Catholic Hierarchy and Relations with
Rome, ca.1880 - ca.1920
Dr Peter Doyle, Volumes Editor, Catholic Record
Society
1.00 pm Closing Lunch

** Important note on excursions.

When completing the booking form, would you please indicate, by
ticking the appropriate boxes, whether or not you wish to join any of
the three excursions, so that coaches of appropriate size can be
booked in advance. You may pay either by adding the cost for each
outing to the cheque sent with the booking form or at the
conference.