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— Notes to pages 144–149 —
between 1900 and 1939. J. Wigley, The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Sunday,
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1980, pp. 192–8.
133 C. Davies, Clean Clothes for Sunday, Lavenham, Terence Dalton, 1974,
p. 25.
134 See the accounts of Women’s Institute members in Norfolk Within Living
Memory, Newbury and Norwich, Countryside Books, 1995, pp. 34–9.
7 ‘UNIMPEACHABLE WITNESSES’:
THE STATISTICS OF ‘CHRISTIAN PROGRESS’
1800–1950
1 R. Mudie-Smith (ed.), The Religious Life of London, London, Hodder &
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2 T. Chalmers, The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns, Glasgow,
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3 Ibid., p. 112.
4 Ibid., p. 109.
5 Census of Great Britain, 1851: Religious Worship, England and Wales, British
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6 W.S.F. Pickering, ‘The 1851 religious census – a useless experiment?’, British
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7 H. Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society 1780–1880, London,
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969, p. 201.
8 H. McLeod, ‘Class, community and region: the religious geography of
nineteenth century England’, in M. Hill (ed.), Sociological Yearbook of
Religion in Britain, vol. 6, 1973; H. McLeod, ‘Religion’, in J. Langton and
R.J. Morris (eds), Atlas of Industrializing Britain 1780–1914, London,
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9 K.D.M. Snell, Church and Chapel in the North Midlands: Religious Observance
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10 H. McLeod, ‘Religion’, p. 212; R.J. Morris, ‘Urbanisation and Scotland’, in
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1830–1914, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1990, p. 92.
11 C.G. Brown, ‘Did urbanisation secularise Britain?’ Urban History Yearbook
1988, pp. 6–8.
12 S. Bruce, ‘Pluralism and religious vitality’, in S. Bruce (ed.), Religion and
Modernization: Sociologists and Historians Debate the Secularization Thesis,
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methods in C.G. Brown, Religion and Society in Scotland since 1707,
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13 I am grateful to Hugh McLeod for this point.
14 On this latter point, see Snell, Church and Chapel, pp. 26–7.
15 Census of Great Britain, 1851, clviii, clxvii.
16 McLeod, ‘Religion’, p. 214.
17 F.M.L. Thompson, Hampstead: Building a Borough, 1650–1964, London,
RKP, 1974, p. 387.
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