Talks

On this page you can listen to some of the talks we have recorded during our visits or conferences.   Click on the arrows to listen or go to the ‘Our Podcast’ page to download the talks using our free iTunes Podcast.

Caroline Chisholm: The Emigrant’s Friend by Joanna Bogle

Nicholas Breakspear: The English Pope by Adrian Waddingham

Cardinal Bourne by Fr Mark Vickers

The Papal Zouaves by Fr Nicholas Schofield

Francois Longuet by Lindsay Mullaney

Cardinal Pole – Rev Dr Kenneth Carleton

Monasticism in Suffolk – Dr Francis Young

With help from the English Embassy: Spanish Civil War Letters from Loreto Sisters 1936-38 – Dr Benjamin Hazard

Saint John Henry Newman – Doctor of the Church? – Fr Marcus Holden


A History of Reading Abbey – John & Lindsay Mullaney


Bishop Youens of Northampton – Margaret Osborne

St Alphege: Saint of Bath and Saint for our Times – Dr Giles Mercer

The English Dominican Province – Fr Richard Finn OP

Downside Abbey Library and Archives – Dr Simon Johnson

Shakespeare and the English Reformation – Lady Clare Asquith

St Nicholas Owen: Priest-hole Maker –  Tony Reynolds

“Bid me come to thee upon the waters”: Fr Thomas R D Byles, Priest of the Titanic Disaster – Fr S J Hoyle

Blessed John Henry Newman: A Portrait in Letters – Mgr Roderick Strange

An Overview of Devotion to Our Lady of Glastonbury – Dr Timothy Hopkinson-Ball

‘Priests in Uniform’ – Catholic Military Chaplains in the First World War – Dr James Hagerty[

David Jones: ‘He placed himself in the order of signs’ – Dr Mary Coghill

Dean John Incent or Innocent GPF – David Pearce

William Brownlow: Convert, Scholar and Bishop – Dr Giles Mercer  

Receiving Vatican II  – Brian Davies with introduction by Fr Brian Doolan

The Gordon Riots in London – Michael Winterbottom  

The Gordon Riots in Bath – Dr Steve Poole

The Christian History of Wells – Dr Timothy Hopkinson-Ball  

The Recusant History of Wells & Area – Mrs Gill Hogarth

The Dissolution of the Monastries – Professor George Bernard

Recusancy in Monmouthshire in the 16th & 17th Centuries – Mrs Madge O’Keefe

Newman and Chesterton – Fr Ian Ker  

Eric Gill’s Stations of the Cross in St Augustine’s, High Wycombe, with a Short History of the De La Salle Brothers – Br Michael Curran FSC    

A Short History of Northampton Diocese – Brin Dunsire  

Catholic Life in England in the Era of Emancipation  – Dr Simon Johnson (introduction by Dom Aidan Bellenger)

Catholic Emancipation – Fr Brian Doolan   

Recusant Liturgy – Michael Hodgetts  

The History of the Mass from Melchisedek to the Second Vatican Council – Fr Peter Jones   

The Stuart Papers and the later Jacobite Circle in Rome – Abbot Dom Geoffrey Scott OSB

The Canons Regular of the Lateran – Abbot Anthony Maggs CRL  

The Arundell family – Mrs Janet de Gaynesford  

The Molesworth Family – Mrs P J Shaw  

King Arthur and Our Lady of Glastonbury – Mr Michael Protheroe