Misha’s first monograph, The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660, was published in 2022. Her current research focuses on the role of women in the development of colonisation and racial slavery in seventeenth-century Barbados.

After a PhD in History at UCL, she took up posts at the University of Kent and the University of Manchester, and was a Curator for Inclusive History at Historic Royal Palaces between 2021and 2022.

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Thank you Lou. I probably should have mentioned in the post that in my spare time I continued to write and publish on Catherine of Braganza and on Catholic sequestrations, and will continue to do so. It has certainly been a busy three years!

While my future in academia is currently uncertain, I have enjoyed very much researching the history of the Little Company of Mary and their global missions, and I hope in the near future to share my findings in my forthcoming book and article. 12/

sisters who came before them and who shared their wonderful memories with me. I have also had the honour to present my research at various conferences and locations, including at @catholicrs.bsky.social @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social
and to the LCM communities in Sydney and Christchurch. 11/

to pay my respects to the sisters, as well as to see the good work they still do today in hospitals and hospices still run under the LCM name. With all the travelling, it has been an honour to meet many of the sisters, some of whom remember the pioneering generations of 10/

My travels for researching the book have also taken me to Chicago, Malta, Rome and Fiesole near Florence, in which I have found very moving to pay homage to the sisters who have been and gone, including visiting the cemetery where the sisters are buried in Chicago, and to pay 9/

places including Dublin and Limerick, but also travelling over 10,000 miles away to Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand, where I could see in action the everyday work that the sisters and staff do for ordinary people today. 8/

the LCM was founded in 1877, including the wonderful Heritage Centre and the tomb of the foundress Mary Potter at St Chad's Cathedral, but I also had the privilege of visiting nearly 30 archives in 6 countries where the LCM had their global missions. This has not only been in 7/

and for always making me feel welcome. As part of my fellowship, I spent a lot of time travelling, which for someone who had never been able to travel much growing up, is something that I will never forget. Not only did I have the opportunity to visit Nottingham to see where 6/

though I have to say I won't be missing the trains! A huge chunk of my fellowship was spending time in the LCM's archives in Tooting, uncovering the riches in the archives before they moved up to Durham. I enjoyed getting to know the Congregational Leadership during my visits 5/

opportunities afforded me as a researcher in CCS. I have been so fortunate to have made new friends within my cluster, and to meet people willing to listen about my research at its very early stages when I made my monthly commute up to Durham, 4/

Being a representative at Durham researching the history of the Little Company of Mary religious congregation, I never underestimated the important task ahead of me, in terms of researching their rich history, but also to do the job justice, while making the most of 3/

given the chance to prove myself in a full-time position at a university, after what was at the time a spell of juggling various teaching jobs at four universities at the same time, while also spending my spare time writing articles and chapters for publication. 2/