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15613 results in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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  • The Radical Party in the Kirk, 1637–45

  • David Stevenson
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 25 / Issue 2 / April 1974
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2011, pp. 135-165
    Print publication:
    April 1974

  • In the Scottish General Assembly of 1638 the Covenanters, openly defying Charles I, reformed the kirk to remove what they saw as its corruptions. Bishops and the Court of High Commission were abolished. The Five Articles of Perth (regulating certain points of worship), the 1636 Book of Canons and the hated Prayer Book of 1637 were all condemned.

  • Gladstone's Abolition of Compulsory Church Rates: a Minor Political Myth and its Historiographical Career

  • Olive Anderson
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 25 / Issue 2 / April 1974
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2011, pp. 185-198
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    April 1974

  • There are four major interpretative themes in historical writing about nineteenth century English politics whose exposition has customarily involved a bald allusion to Gladstone's abolition of compulsory church rates in 1868. In reality the facts do not justify any of these familiar uses. What follows is intended not only to demonstrate that this is so by briefly describing ‘how it really happened’, but also to consider how it has come about that this legislation has been so often pressed into service in inappropriate contexts ever since it was passed, and to speculate a little upon this as part of the general problem of the delays and paradoxes in the development of historical writing on nineteenth-century England.

  • The Making of the Civil Registration Act of 1836

  • M. J. Cullen
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 25 / Issue 1 / January 1974
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2011, pp. 39-59
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    January 1974

  • The ‘Act for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England’ of 1836 was a significant Act in at least four respects. First, it may be regarded as marking the foundation of the modern era in vital statistics in England and Wales. By it the General Register Office was created which ever since has proved a major source of both data and analysis concerning the demographic structure of England and Wales. Secondly, the Act was of importance in the process of the growth of government in nineteenth-century Britain. Thirdly, it remedied one of the major grievances of Dissenters by providing a civil, not ecclesiastical, registration of births, deaths, and marriages. Finally, the story of its passage casts much light on the fragility of the unity amongst the Dissenters in the period from 1829 to 1836.

  • ECH volume 25 issue 1 Front matter

  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 25 / Issue 1 / January 1974
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2011, pp. f1-f2
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    January 1974
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  • English Cathedral Choirs in the Nineteenth Century

  • Philip Barrett
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 25 / Issue 1 / January 1974
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    25 March 2011, pp. 15-37
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    January 1974

  • An important feature of the ecclesiastical history of the Church of England since the Reformation has been the unique and precious tradition of a choir of men and boys singing daily choral services in the cathedrals of this country. There have been several studies of this tradition and the music written for cathedral services, but there has not yet been a full account of cathedral choirs in the last century. There have been useful brief surveys by Owen Chadwick and Bernarr Rainbow, but these have been only parts of larger works whose main emphasis is elsewhere. Plenty of material exists, however, and the contemporary conditions which led S. S. Wesley to write his polemical pamphlet A Few Words on Cathedral Music in 1849 demand detailed investigation.

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