In this two-part instalment of Passing Notes Oliver Mumford is joined by Professor Tim Allender of the University of Sydney to discuss his award-winning book Empire Religiosity: Convent habits in colonial and postcolonial India. Professor Allender’s research considers how the Loreto Sisters - Roman Catholic female missionaries - operated in colonial and postcolonial India to carry out their educational mission.

In part two Professor Allender explores how the Loreto sisters worked as both outsiders and products of empire, and how they negotiated and worked within a colonial world. The episode follows the history of the order in India from their foundation to the present, considering the history of the order in shaping their contemporary role.

In this two-part instalment of Passing Notes Oliver Mumford is joined by Professor Tim Allender of the University of Sydney to discuss his award-winning book Empire Religiosity: Convent habits in colonial and postcolonial India. Professor Allender’s research considers how the Loreto Sisters - Roman Catholic female missionaries - operated in colonial and postcolonial India to carry out their educational mission.

In part one Professor Allender discusses the background and origins of his book, some of the unique challenges and opportunities that arose when researching this work, and the historical context behind the consolidation of the Loreto Sisters in nineteenth century Kolkata.

In this episode Oliver Mumford is joined by Dr Jonathan Doney from the University of Exeter to discuss Dr Doney's book: Unearthing Policies of Instrumentalization in English Religious Education Using Statement Archaeology. The book was awarded the 2023 Kevin Brehony Prize by the History of Education. Dr Doney discusses the origins, purpose and method of his approach: statement archaeology. The episode explores the use of this approach through the examination of developments of English Religious Education policy from 1944 to the 1980s.