Articles
REFEREED ARTICLES
‘Catholic Naval Chaplains in the First World War’, in Pennant, Issue 6, Autumn 2023, pp. 15-19.
‘Answering the Call: Some Aspects of Catholic Army Chaplains in the First World War’, in South-
Eastern Catholic History, Issue 9, 2017-2018, pp. 8-17.
‘Bishop Casartelli and Salford’s Military Chaplains in the First World War’, in North West Catholic History, vol LXIV, 2017.
‘The Conversion of England: John Carmel Heenan and the Catholic Missionary Society, 1947-1951’ in Recusant History, vol. 31, no. 3, May 2013, pp. 449-469.
‘The Military Career of Bishop Robert Brindle’ in Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol. 87, no. 350, 2009, pp. 123-127.
‘Habemus Ducem: Archbishop Hinsley’s Appointment to Westminster, 1935’, in Recusant History, vol. 29, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 124-141.
‘Padres to Prelates: The Clerical Preferment of British Army Chaplains, 1794-1939’, in Royal Army Chaplains’ Department Journal, vol. 46, 2007, pp. 67-71.
‘Catholic Military Chaplains in the Crimean War’ (co-author with Tom Johnstone), in Footprints, Journal of the Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission, vol. 23, no. 2, Dec 2006, pp. 3-42.
‘The Roman Diary of George Heptonstall, 1821-1828’, in The Venerabile, vol. xxxiii, no. 2, 2004-2005, pp. 1-12.
‘Catholic Military Chaplains in the Crimean War’ (co-author with Tom Johnstone), in Recusant History, vol. 27, no. 3, Oct 2005, pp. 415-446.
‘Fr Charles Swarbreck: An Army Chaplain in the Boer War’ (co-author with Tom Johnstone), in North West Catholic History, vol. xxxi, 2004, pp. 84-97.
‘A Catholic Chaplain in the Crimean War’, in Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol. 82, no. 329, 2004, pp. 21-31.
‘Old Romans and the Missio Castrensis 1587-1945’, in The Venerabile, vol. xxxii, no. 4, 2002-2003, pp. 39-47.
‘Bradford Friendly Societies in the 1790s’, in The Bradford Antiquary, New Series, Part XLV1, 1976, pp. 45-63.
SHORTER ARTICLES AND NOTES
‘The English and Welsh Hierarchy and the First Word War: Issues and Sources’, in Catholic Archives, no. 34, 2014, pp. 17-29.
‘Catholic Army Chaplains in the Great War 1914-1918: The Papers of Fr. Stephen Rawlinson O.S.B. in the Archives of Downside Abbey’ in Catholic Archives, no. 32, 2012, pp. 12-21.
‘Arthur Hinsley: A Yorkshire Cardinal’, in Northern Catholic History, no. 49, 2008, pp. 37-42.
‘Newcastle Catenians and the Great War of 1914-1918’ (with Kevin Kennair), in Northern Catholic History, no. 48, 2007, pp. 34-39.
‘An Army Chaplain with 1st Battalion RMF: South Africa 1901’, in Journal of the Royal Munster Fusiliers Association, 2005, pp. 11-15.
‘Catholics and Catholic Military Chaplaincy in the First World War 1914-1918’, in Catholic Ancestor, vol.9, no. 4, 2003, pp. 153-157.
‘A New Century, A New School: St. Bede’s Grammar School, Bradford’, in Northern Catholic History, no. 41, 2000, pp. 58-67.
‘The Diocese of Leeds during the First World War’, in Northern Catholic History, no. 37, 1996, pp. 36-48.
‘The Priest in the Armed Forces’ (with Tom Johnstone), in Northern Catholic History, no. 35, 1994, pp. 58-66.
‘Notes on the Northern District under Bishop Thomas Smith 1821-1831’, in Northern Catholic History, no. 27, 1988, pp. 20-30.
‘Hinsley at Ushaw’, in Northern Catholic History, no. 23, 1986, pp. 27-34.
‘The First National Catholic Congress’, in Northern Catholic History, no. 20, 1984, pp. 21-30.
‘‘The Oblates of Mary Immaculate and Their Northern Missions’, in Northern Catholic History, no.18, 1983, pp. 22-31.
‘History and Less Able Children’, in Teaching History, 1981.
‘History Not So Long Ago’, in Teaching History, vol. iv, no. 15, May 1976, pp. 223-226.
EDITOR
The Global History of Catholicism (contributor and editor), (The Lord Brennan Catholic Educational Trust: London, 2015), pp. 224.
The Bishops of Leeds 1878-1985 (contributor and co-editor with Robert Finnigan), (Leeds Diocesan Archives Publication: Leeds, 2005), pp. vii, 181.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
‘D-Day’s hero padres: “I have no illusions about what lies ahead”, in The Universe, 31 May 2024, pp.20-21.
‘D-Day: A Catenian Remembers’, in Catena, May 2024., pp. 10-11.
‘Fr Wheeler provides the link between Yorkshire’s cardinals’, in The Universe, 3 Feb 2023.
‘Cardinal Hinsley was a man that the Church – and Churchill – came to trust’, in The Universe, 27 Jan 2023.
‘St John Fisher stayed loyal in face of the king’s threats’, in The Universe, 20 Jan 2023.
‘Catenians, their Families and World War II’, in Catena, October 2019, pp. 18-19.
‘The Founding Fathers’, in Catena, August 2017, pp. 18-19.
‘Catena, Catenians and the Great War of 1914-1918’, in Catena, July 2017, pp. 14-16.
‘Catena Centenary’, in Catena, June 2017, pp. 6-8.
‘Catenians, Their Families and the Great War’ (editor), in Catena, Aug 2014-Aug 2015.
‘1913 – A Year of Wonders’, in Catena, Dec 2012, pp. 20-21.
‘Cardinal Hinsley’s Yorkshire Connections’, in Catholic Post, Sept 2011.
‘The Great Schism and the Avignon Papacy – Why There Were Once Three Popes’, in
The Universe, 14 Nov 2010.
‘The Crusades – Should the Church Apologize?’ in The Universe, 31 Oct. 2010.
‘The First National Catholic Congress, Leeds 1910’ (with Robert Finnigan), in Catholic Life, Oct 2010, pp. 38-39
‘D Day Padres’, in Catholic Life, July 2009, pp. 6-7.
‘Saints, Monks and Martyrs: The Religious History of Harrogate and District’, in Catena, March 2009, pp. 6-7.
‘Sir Mark Sykes – A Catenian Diplomat’, in Catena, Feb. 2009, p. 21.
‘Catena – The Early Days’ in Catena, Feb 2008, pp. 14-15.
‘Beyond the Shores of Albion: The International Development of the Catenian Association’, in Catena, Sept 2007, pp.12-13.
‘Fort Augustus and the Great War, 1914-1918’, in Catholic Scotland, vol. 2, 2007, pp. 60-62.
‘Catenians and The Great War’, in Catena, March 2007, p. 9.
‘Leeds Trinity & All Saints – Celebrating 40 years of Learning’, in Catholic Life, Dec 2006, pp. 30-32.
‘Chaplains on the Somme’, in Catholic Life, July 2006, pp. 10-13.
‘Cardinal Arthur Hinsley’, in Catholic Life, March 2005, pp. 58-60.
BOOK REVIEWS AND PEER REVIEWS
‘Lay Catholic Support for Exiled Polish intellectuals in Britain, 1942-1962’ for The Downside Review.
Morris, A B, Fifty Years On: The Case for Catholic Schools, in Networking, vol.10, issue 4, April 2009.
Hird, N, Our Fathers of Faith, in The Catholic Post, Dec 2008.
Snape, M, The Redcoat and Religion: The Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War, in Recusant History, vol. 28, no. 4, Oct 2007, pp. 598-601.
PODCASTS AND DIGITAL ARTICLES
Benedictine Military Chaplains in the First World War, English Benedictine Congregation History Commission Symposium, 1998, http://www.monlib.org.uk/papers/ebch/1998hagerty.pdf
From Cowl to Khaki: Benedictine Experiences on the Western Front, 2015, (journals.sagepub.com)
Priests in Uniform – Catholic Military Chaplains in the First World War, English Catholic History Association, 11 November 2014 (echa.org.uk).
Some Aspects of Catholic Military Chaplaincy in the Great War, Religious Archives Group, May 2018, (religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk).
Priests in Uniform: Diocesan Military Chaplains in the Second World War (www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk), with Fr Nicholas Hird.”