The Early Journals of Hensley Henson: Birkenhead and All Souls 1885-1887

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83765-306-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Church of England Record Society

One of the most outstanding diarists in modern Britain, the leading churchman and public figure Herbert Hensley Henson (1863-1947) commenced his Journal in Birkenhead in 1885, while tutoring the indolent son of William Rathbone, a Liverpool shipping magnate. This extensively annotated edition publishes the first four volumes in full. It covers his experiences in a ship-building town hit hard by the industrial depression of the mid-1880s, and mired in religious sectarianism; his return to All Souls College, Oxford, and establishment of the Oxford Laymen's League for the defence of the Church, while agonising over whether he should become ordained; and his work at the Oxford House, the Anglican settlement in Bethnal Green, in combatting the influence of secularism. The value of the Journal from its earliest volumes is evident in its incisive commentary on people, places, and events, its searching reflections on Christianity and the authority of the Church, and in its fine literary style.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stapleton, Julia

Field, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Preface and acknowledgements
Editorial policies
Annotation guidance
List of abbreviations
List of illustrations
THE JOURNALS
Volume 1, 12 May - 20 July 1885
Volume 2, 20 July (cont.) - 31 August 1885

Volume 3, 1 September - 12 December 1885

Volume 4, 4 May 1886 - 11 July 1887

Select bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Field, Frank
Frank Field, CH, PC, DL, was the MP for Birkenhead from 1979 to 2019, and was made a life peer in 2020 as Baron Field of Birkenhead. He wrote extensively on poverty, anti-social behaviour, and welfare, and was an active layman in the Church of England.

Stapleton, Julia
Julia Stapleton is Professor Emeritus of Political Thought in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. She led the AHRC funded project that brought into digital publication Henson's journals between 1900 and 1939.