Converts Industrialisation & industrial history pleasure and the meaning of

pleasure and the meaning of life

darkly funny and deeply moving

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

Alice Vincent had become overwhelmed by the sensory overload punctuating our every moment

After the horrors of the First World War

Converts Industrialisation & industrial history pleasure and the meaning ofWhy 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