Converts Industrialisation & industrial history giving the stories behind the

giving the stories behind the names of many of the greats such as Red Rum

Dimensions: 152 x 233 x 46mm

Imprint: Bloomsbury Wildlife

pleasure and the meaning of life

winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018

Converts Industrialisation & industrial history giving the stories behind theWhy did Catholicism attract so many unlikely converts in Britain during the twentieth century? The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn to Rome. In the first half of the century, Catholicism became an intellectual and spiritual fashion attracting more than half a million converts, including fascinating artists, writers, and thinkers. What