Author: Crispin Pailing
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ISBN: 9781910837276
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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"Since the foundation of the town by King John, Liverpool has had a church by the river. Over the following centuries dozens more churches came and went, but the imprint of the activity of the Parish of Liverpool on the city and people was profound. Particularly until the mid-nineteenth century (and at times afterwards) the history of the town was inseparable from her church, and their unusually strong relationship is not replicated in other cities. Control of the church sat with the corporation (down to the council's instruction to the incumbent in 1612 to get his hair cut!), and the town claimed ownership of the church and its contents. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries the health and social care for the town was run from the church under the Elizabethan Poor Law. This unique portrayal of the relationship between the town and Parish of Liverpool draws on the extensive records which have survived, as well as archives which have not been examined in depth before."--Book jacket.
Author: Alastair Wilcox
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443859974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Organised religion played such a central part in Victorian life that it is impossible to understand this era without some reference to it. Yet the question, which worried the Victorians, still remains, how religious was the mass of Victorian society? Recent scholarship has challenged the orthodoxy that the working classes, and the working classes of large urban centres in particular, were irreligious. Yet Liverpool, with its large migratory population, including Roman Catholics from Ireland and Nonconformists from Wales and Scotland, appeared to offer unpromising ground for the Anglican Church to sow its seed. Within the city, Liverpool’s notorious slums seemed to offer the most barren ground of all. What strategies did the Anglican clergy employ to make their churches work at a grassroots level? How could they overcome the problems they faced, which ranged from the hostility of the local community to severe financial constraints? How helpful was the advice dispensed by Church handbooks in dealing with these challenges? More important, is it now possible to estimate the success in gaining not only worshippers, but a wider penumbra of working class adherents to church-based activities? Some of Liverpool’s more aristocratic churches were overwhelmed by the encroaching city slums, and the reaction of at least one clergyman was to retreat within his vicarage, and ‘shut up shop’. However, other clergy set about energetically working the slums. Largely Oxbridge men, with a very different background in social and educational terms to their flock, they made surprising progress. By drawing upon a variety of local sources, including many hitherto unused, this book contends that it is possible to evaluate the success of the Anglican Church in the slums. The Church had successes not only to be judged solely by the number of working class worshippers, but also by the uses the local community made of rites of passage, philanthropic activities and the clubs and societies offered by the Anglican Church in Liverpool. This book is aimed at readers interested in researching family and local history as well as those following wider national trends in religious history.
Author: Richard Pollard
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300109108
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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This book is based on sections of Nikolaus Pevsner's 'South Lancashire' and 'North Lancashire', both published in 1969"--acknowledgements.
Author: Thomas Burke
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473392330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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This classic volume contains Thomas Burke’s 1910 work, “Catholic History of Liverpool”. A fascinating and detailed account of Catholicism and its influence on Liverpool’s history, this book will appeal to those with an interest in Liverpool’s religious background, and would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. Thomas Burke (1886–1945) was a British author. Other notable works by this author include: “Night-Pieces” (1935), “The Beauty of England” (1933), and “The English Inn” (1930). Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Author: Jonathan Walker
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ISBN: 9781838018139
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Languages : en
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Author: David Lewis
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ISBN: 9781872568768
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Author: Nigel Yates
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324142
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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A comprehensive guide to the most important church and chapel buildings in Wales from the early middle ages to the present day. Introduced with an overview of the religious history of the country, this book explores and illustrates Wales's surviving churches and chapels by region.
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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