For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers it

In the Victorian and Edwardian era, history was one of the most prized forms of cultural and intellectual activity: it was, quite simply, the lens through which

The book retraces the history of the Church of England from the Henrician schism (1533–34) to the present day, and focuses on the complex relations between th