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Traces the significant impact of the Evangelicals on the Victorians. This work attempts to examine the nature and the extent of the impact which the Evangelicals made on English life in the first half of the 19th century. It argues that the...

This book explores how the native Christian communities of the British Isles from the fifth to the tenth centuries have been idealised and appropriated by succeeding generations who have projected their own preconceptions and prejudices on to a...

Examines the life, character and achievements of St Columba and the distinctive nature and current relevance of Columban Christianity and its key strands: pilgrimage, penitence and politics.

Arthur Sullivan is best known as W. S. Gilbert's collaborator in the Savoy Operas. Sullivan was regarded as the nation's leading composer of sacred oratorios on a par with Mendelssohn and Brahms. Ian Bradley provides the first detailed,...