In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states began to provide many of the
public services we now take for granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive …

This article provides a study of scholarship on religions and education, published over the
past forty years, in History of Education. It also includes reference to other publications …

While we were studying the process of the feminization of the teaching profession in
Belgium in the 19th and 20th centuries as part of a research project of the Flemish teachers' …

This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the
nineteenth century. Previous books about 'Britain'invariably focus on England, and such …

This publication makes the case for 'religion and education'as a distinct, but cross-
disciplinary, field of inquiry. To begin with, consideration is given to the changing dynamic …

The article provides a review of scholarship on the history of women religious, a discussion
of the current status of the field, and a consideration of the next “wave” in scholarship …

This article addresses the material culture of Catholicism in Ireland from the late 1830s to the
mid-1890s through a close examination of the advertisements carried by the Irish Catholic …

This chapter analyses continuity and change within the Toronto convent academies and
women's colleges of the Loretto Sisters and the Sisters of St Joseph. The twenty-first-century …

This article examines some of the legacy of the Irish education pioneer Nano Nagle,
foundress of the Presentation congregation of nuns. The congregation spread rapidly in the …

Catholics remained outside the Scottish educational system until 1918. The Church
preferred mixed‐sex infant schools and either single‐sex schools or separate departments …