Census returns provide a detailed information about patterns of religious life in 19c Suffolk, revealing much about both orthodox Anglicanism and Dissent. The r

The Diocese of Chester covers parts of Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire.

Long ghettoized within British and Irish studies, Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland demonstrates that, despite many challenges and differences am

Moving beyond the (now somewhat tired) debates about secularization as paradigm, theory, or master narrative, Periodizing Secularization focuses upon the empiri

This 1990 publication is the first printed edition of early eighteenth-century historical notes on Yorkshire parishes by the Bishop of Chester.