Staff profile

• 19th and 20th century Catholic history
• History of Durham University
• History of North East England
• Enslavement and Colonialism
• Archives Management

Authored book

• Bush, J. (2013). Papists and prejudice: anti-Catholicism and Anglo-Irish conflict in the North East of England, 1845-70. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Book review

• Bush, J. (2018). George Errington and Roman Catholic identity in nineteenth-century England. By Serenhedd James . (Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. xiii + 265. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. £65. 978 0 19 876639 1. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69(1), 204-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046917001233

Chapter in book

• Bush, J., & Sharratt, M. (2015). Dictates and disputations at Ushaw College. In J. E. Kelly (Ed.), Treasures of Ushaw College. Scala Arts and Heitage Publishers Ltd
• Bush, J. (2015). Nicholas Wiseman. In J. E. Kelly (Ed.), Treasures of Ushaw College. Scala Arts and Heitage Publishers Ltd

Edited book

• Power, M., & Bush, J. (Eds.). (in press). Lay Catholic Societies in 20th Century Britain. Boydell & Brewer

Journal Article

• Bush, J. (2017). Lay Catholic Support for Exiled Polish Intellectuals in Britain, 1942–1962. The Downside review, 135(4), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580617735778
• Bush, J. (2016). The priest and the parson of Hartlepool: Protestant-Catholic conflict in a nineteenth-century industrial town. British Catholic History, 33(1), 115-134. https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2016.8

Report

• Bush, J. (2023). Protecting Dispersed Collections: A Framework for Managing the at-Risk Heritage Assets of Catholic Religious Institutes. RLUK