<p>John Henry Newman was one of the most fasinating and important figures of the nineteenth century. Charming, sensitive and difficult, he showed his intellectual greatness especially in his response to religious doubt. His life was one of passionate frienships and enmities. This book was acclaimed as the most scholarly and accessible introduction to Newman's life and thought when first published in 1990.</p>

Newman and His Age

Gilley, Sheridan

Biographies & Memoirs

Darton, Longman, and Todd

This work is a sequel to The Irish Victorian City. As a collection of national and regional studies, it reflected the consensus view of the subject by describing both the degree of the demoralization of the Irish immigrants into Britain for the early and mid-Victorian period, when they figured so largely in the official parliamentary and social reportage of the day; and then, in spite of every obvious difficulty posed by poverty, crime, disease, and prejudice, the positive aspect of the Irish Catholic achievement in the creation of enduring religious and political communities towards the end of the nineteenth century.

The Irish in Britain 1815-1931

History

Swift, Roger

Europe

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Written by 23 leading scholars, this one-volume history of religious belief and practice in England, Wales and Scotland covers the period from pre-Roman times to the present. Its focus is on the worship and the beliefs of the British peoples, the questions which exercised them, and the degree to which belief and practice were changed by institutional reforms and upheavals in church or state. Christianity occupies the greater part of the book, but considerable space is devoted to pre-Christian and non-Christian beliefs, in particular Judaism and Islam.

A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present

World

Blackwell Pub.

This book is the first one volume history of religious belief and practice in England, Wales and Scotland. It covers the period from Roman times to the present and has been written by twenty-three scholars, all writing accessibly for a wide readership.

Wiley/Blackwell

Leaders & Notable People

Christian Classics

Farm Street offers the first illustrated account of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, located at Farm Street in Mayfair, London. Building on an inauspicious site between some stables and a workhouse, the architects created a contrasting interior of exceptional beauty and opulence. The church consequently grew to become a center of British Catholicism, witnessing influential sermons and masses attended by such prominent figures as Evelyn Waugh, Edith Sitwell, and Lord Longford.   This book charts the intricate negotiations that led the Jesuits  to build when and where they did, offers a definitive architectural history of the building  itself, and tells the story of the church through the war years up to the present. Including specially commissioned photographs by Andrew Twort, this sumptuous book, whose proceeds support the ministry of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, tells the remarkable story of one of London’s great Catholic institutions.  

Farm Street: The Story of the Jesuits' Church in London

Arts & Photography

PERRY, MARIA

HALL, Michael

Architecture

Unicorn Publishing Group

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