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62 Calculated from the author’s running datasets on Scottish church membership.
63 C.G. Brown, ‘Religion and secularisation’, in Dickson and Treble (eds), People
and Society, pp. 48–55.
64 Brown, Religion and Society, p. 54; in England there was a rise during 1919–34
from 1.57 to 1.77 per cent of marriages being performed by non-mainstream
churches; calculated from data in Currie, Gilbert and Horsley, Churches and
Churchgoers, p. 224, ‘others’ column.
65 Calculated from the author’s datasets on Scottish church members and church
attendance censuses.
66 S.C. Williams, Religious Belief and Popular Culture in Southwark, c. 1880–1939,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 54–104.
67 Cf. McLeod, Religion and Society, p. 60.
8 THE 1960S AND SECULARISATION
1 One of the few to note the significance of the fifties is G. Parsons, ‘Contrasts
and continuities: the traditional Christian churches in Britain since 1945’,
in G. Parsons (ed.), The Growth of Religious Diversity: Britain from 1945,
vol. 1, London, Routledge, 1993, pp. 46–55. For examples of how 1950s’
church growth has been largely ignored or downgraded, see B. Wilson, Religion
in Secular Society, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1966; G. Davie, Religion in
Britain since 1945: Believing Without Belonging, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994,
pp. 30–3.
2 L. Heron (ed.), Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing up in the Fifties,
London, Virago, 1985, p. 5.
3 P. Summerfield, Women Workers in The Second World War, London, Croom
Helm, 1984, p. 184.
4 Ibid., pp. 188–9.
5 Ibid., p. 190; C.L. White, Women’s Magazines 1693–1968, London, Michael
Joseph, 1970, chapter 6; S. Rowbottom, A Century of Women: The History of
Women in Britain and the United States, London, Viking, 1997, pp. 242–9, 280–4.
6 Heron (ed.), Truth, Dare or Promise, p. 4.
7 P. Summerfield, Reconstructing Women’s Wartime Lives, Manchester, Manchester
University Press, 1998, p. 259.
8 Brief Encounter, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard (dir. David Lean,
Pinewood Films 1945).
9 Quoted in C.L. White, The Women’s Periodical Press in Britain 1946–1976,
London, HMSO, 1977, p. 10.
10 Nestlé advertisement, 1951, quoted ibid.
11 Ibid., p. 11.
12 Monica Dickens in Women’s Own, 28 January 1961, quoted ibid., p. 11
13 Ibid.
14 F. Colquhoun, Harringay Story: A Detailed Account of the Greater London
Crusade 1954, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1955; T. Allan, Crusade in
Scotland – Billy Graham, London, Pickering & Inglis, 1955; D.P. Thomson,
Visitation Evangelism in Scotland 1946–1956, Crieff, no pub., c. 1956; Parsons,
‘Contrasts and continuities’, pp. 46–9.
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