Carmen M. Mangion is a Reader in Modern British History at Birkbeck University of London. Her research examines the cultural and social history of gender and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain relating to how religious identities were formed, imagined and lived during times of social change. Her most recent volume (edited with Dr Susan O'Brien), Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume 4, Building Identity, 1830–1913 (2023) examines British Catholic revivalism within a European and global context. She is also the author of Contested Identities: Catholic Women Religious in
nineteenth-century England and Wales (2008) and Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age, Britain 1945–1990 (2020).
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The construction of European welfare states after 1945 did not happen without reaction and contribution from private religious actors. More info