Converts Industrialisation & industrial history ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781803990200

ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781803990200

After the horrors of the First World War

winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018

Dimensions: 231 x 298 x 14mm

Converts Industrialisation & industrial history ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781803990200Why 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