Parish Posts

In this section of My-Parish, members discuss specific themes, highlight sources, contribute to debates, report on events etc (contributions are arranged by publication date, with the most recent pieces at the top of the list). Please contact the webmaster with any new ideas. The FORUM can be used for shorter news / announcements.
 

• Angus Crawford, 'Midlands History and Heritage: Collaborative Approaches - Reflections', an event report co-commissioned by EMECC and My-Parish (28 January 2025; LATEST)
• Marek Słoń, 'The Parochial Network in Poland from the 13th to the 18th Century' (7 December 2024)
• Miia Kuha, '"The Mother of the Parish": Finnish Pastors' Wives in Late Seventeenth-Century Funeral Biographies' (second blog post specifically written for 'Parish Memory', the 22nd Warwick Symposium on Parish Research on 11 May 2024)
• Valerie Hitchman, 'Parish Memory: The Churchwardens' Accounts of St Botolph's without Aldersgate' (first blog post specifically written for 'Parish Memory', the 22nd Warwick Symposium on Parish Research on 11 May 2024)
• Mattia Corso, 'The Impact of the Counter Reformation on Parish Feasts in Northern Italy' (March 2024)
• Imogen Knox, 'Tricking pilgrims: Suicide, jests and popular religion' (June 2023)
• Luke Holloway, 'A Bedfordshire vicar and his drinking companions: The case of John Bolton (1716)' (July 2022)
• Andrew Foster, 'Parish Network & Parish Symposium - An Appreciation' (May 2022 20th Anniversary Post)
• Elena Corniolo, 'Communities, territory and cure of souls: Parishes in late medieval Aosta' (March 2022)
• Michael Egger, 'A republic of readers: "registers of souls" as testimonies of literacy in the parishes of Zurich 1630-1770' (January 2022)
• Marjolein Schepers, 'A night's stay and some travel money: Passing through the city of Leiden in the Netherlands, 1803-34' (January 2022)
• Joe Chick, 'Church Ales in the Middle Ages' (specially commissioned for the FEAST! theme of Warwick's Resonate Festival for Coventry UK City of Culture; December 2021)
• Brodie Waddell, 'Arguing about Alehouses: Local Petitions and Parish Politics in Early Modern England' (April 2021)
• Marion Hardy, 'State Decisions, Parish Problems' on military expenses in 17thC Devon (April 2021)
• Sarah Richardson, 'Women and the Politics of the Parish' (February 2021)
• Ian Atherton, Fiona McCall, Imogen Peck & Michael Sewell, 'The Impact of the Civil War on English Parishes' (February 2021)
• Celeste McNamara, 'Encountering the Parish in Seventeenth-Century Italy' (December 2020)
• Emma J. Wells, '"Trusting" the Medieval Senses - and Reformation Change' (June 2020)
• 2020 Symposium participants, 'Research to be featured at "Remembering the Parish"' (May 2020)
• Emma J. Wells, 'Online PGDip in Parish Church Studies' (May 2020)
• Massimo Della Misericordia, 'Community churches in alpine Lombardy in the late Middle Ages' (April 2020)
• Hàìghlèàgh Winslade, 'Parish Boundaries' (September 2019)
• David Fletcher, 'The Impact of Ejected Ministers on Parish Life 1662-1672' (November 2018)
• Bethany Marsh, 'Irish Refugees in Seventeenth-Century London' (July 2018)
• Angela Nicholls, 'Almshouses and Parish Welfare' (July 2018)
• Mary O’Connor, 'Vestry Politics: Shoreditch and the Queen' (July 2018)
• Marion Hardy, 'Inter-Parish, Transhumant and Transient Migrants in Devon, 1600-1800' (June 2018)
• Bart Minnen, 'The Sick Bow in the Church. Medical Care and Surgery in the Village of Oplinter / Brabant, Belgium , (14th-early 16th century)' (May 2018)
• Hàìghlèàgh Winslade, 'Exploring Early Modern Lifestyles at the Weald and Downland Museum' (Dec 2017)
• Martin AlmbjärLink opens in a new window, 'Petitioning parishes in Sweden in the Age of Liberty, 1719–1772' (November 2016)
• Andrew FosterLink opens in a new window, 'Call for research on English and Welsh parish registers, 1640-1662' (October 2016)
• Hàìghlèàgh Winslade, 'Sacred Space: Reflecting on the Fourteenth Warwick Parish Network Symposium and my own research' (May 2016)
• Doreen Agutter, 'Great Packington Parish Records' (March 2016)
• Marco Schnyder, 'Parishes and Migration in the Swiss Canton of Ticino' (August 2015)

Almsbox in the parish church of Worb (Bern/Switzerland). Photo: BK.

 

 

Altarpiece (Holy Trinity, Teregua/Italy, 16thC). Pic: M. Della Misericordia.