I'm very pleased to be able to say that an preview is available of an article that John Maiden and I have had accepted for publication in Parliamentary History. It should appear sometime in 2012/13. This version is that accepted for publication, but before the (minor)
amendments made in response to peer review and before copy-editing. Read it in SAS-Space: 'Parliament, the Church of England and the last gasp of political Protestantism, 1963-4.'
It looks at the attempts by evangelicals to prevent the passage
through parliament of controversial measures relating to canon law
revision in 1963-4. It assesses the interaction between church and
legislature, the influence of both evangelical lobbyists and MPs, and
the terms by which issues relating to religion and national identity
were debated in parliament. It shows that while evangelicals were able
to stir up a surprising level of controversy over canon law revision in
the 1960s, the influence of political protestantism, and thus a
significant long-term theme in British politics, had finally run its
course.
Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British
theological publishing in the twentieth century
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Regular readers will know that I’ve become interested in the history of
publishing, both as an exercise in the history of technology and as a way
of seeing...
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