The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784741582 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 640 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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As well as contributing to a host of national newspapers, he has written twenty-five books, including The Edwardians; Borrowed Time: the Story of Britain between the Wars; In Search of England; acclaimed biographies of John Wesley and Lloyd George, and, most recently, The Devonshires. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.. He served in
It is the victory of moral and spiritual unbending certainty. It is a characteristic that excites admiration in even a hardened atheist.. It focuses on the lives, and sometimes deaths, of individual Catholics martyrs and apostates, priests and laymen, converts and recusants. It tells the story of the men and women who faced the dangers and difficulties of being what their enemies still call Papists’. The first book to tell the story of the Catholics in Britain in a single volume, The Catholics includes much previously unpublished information. Even after the passing of the emancipation acts Catholics were still the victims of institutionalised discrimination. Catholicism survives because it does not compromise. The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'a first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith. It describes the laws which circumscribe
"Every detail!" according to William F. Conger. A must read for those interested in the evolution of religion in England.
British Politics, especially the shipwrecked Labour Party, could do with a generation of Hattersleys - tough, committed, smart and cultivated." -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times * "An elegantly written, sweeping account of Catholics in these islands from the Reformation to the present day. It's a tale of high drama and high stakes, by turns horrifying, romantic and ultimately hopeful." -- Peter Stanford * Observer * "big-hearted, fair-minded, insightfula joy to read" -- Frank Cottrell-Boyce * New Statesman * "Enjoyable Perfectly solid, sensible and often astute." -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * "Hattersley narrates with his characteristic energy His talent for invective remains strong." -- Gerard Degroot * Times * "Hattersley offers a sc