The Death of Christian Britain
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— Notes to pages 220–224 —<br />
104 McLeod, Religious Crisis, pp. 52–5.<br />
105 For some <strong>of</strong> this evidence, see E. Ferri, J. Bynner and M. Wadsworth (eds),<br />
Changing <strong>Britain</strong>, Changing Lives: Three Generations at the Turn <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Century, London, Institute <strong>of</strong> Education, 2003, p. 271; C.G. Brown, ‘Religion<br />
and secularisation’, in A. Dickson and J.H. Treble (eds), People and Society in<br />
Scotland: vol. 3, 1914–1990, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1992.<br />
106 Recent important contributions include J. Wolffe, <strong>The</strong> Expansion <strong>of</strong> Evangelicalism:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Age <strong>of</strong> Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney, Downers Grove, Ill.,<br />
InterVarsity Press, 2007, especially pp. 126–58; N.F. Christie (ed.), Households<br />
<strong>of</strong> Faith: Family, Gender and Community in Canada 1760–1969, Montreal,<br />
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. See also D.W. Bebbington, <strong>The</strong><br />
Dominance <strong>of</strong> Evangelicalism: <strong>The</strong> Age <strong>of</strong> Spurgeon and Moody, Leicester,<br />
InterVarsity Press, 2005, pp. 202–12.<br />
107 Taylor, Secular Age, p. 494. One <strong>Christian</strong> historian imagined that I was out <strong>of</strong><br />
line with this type <strong>of</strong> work: Whyte, who claims to detect ‘more than a whiff <strong>of</strong><br />
Whiggery about Brown’s account’, misreported that my contention was ‘that in<br />
the Victorian era men abandoned the church, leaving piety the preserve <strong>of</strong><br />
women’. W. Whyte, ‘<strong>The</strong> Jackie Generation: girls’ magazines, pop music, and the<br />
discourse revolution’, in Garnet et al., Redefining <strong>Christian</strong> <strong>Britain</strong>, pp. 128, 131.<br />
108 U. King and T. Beattie (eds), Gender, Religion and Diversity: Cross-cultural<br />
Perspectives, London, Continuum, 2004.<br />
109 L. Wilson, Constrained by Zeal: Female Spirituality amongst Nonconformists,<br />
1825–1875, Carlisle, Paternoster Press, 2000.<br />
110 Van Rooden, ‘Oral history’.<br />
111 Brown, Religion and Society, pp. 225–70; idem., ‘Secularisation, the growth <strong>of</strong><br />
militancy and the spiritual revolution: religious change and gender power in<br />
<strong>Britain</strong> 1901–2001’, Historical Research, vol. 80, 2007, pp. 393–418; Brown,<br />
‘Gendering secularisation’.<br />
112 McLeod, Religious Crisis, p. 57.<br />
113 F. Laffitte, ‘<strong>The</strong> users <strong>of</strong> birth control clinics’, Population Studies, vol. 16, 1962,<br />
pp. 12–30, at p. 12; L. McCormick, ‘“<strong>The</strong> Scarlet Woman in Person”: <strong>The</strong><br />
establishment <strong>of</strong> a family planning service in Northern Ireland, 1950–1974’,<br />
Social History <strong>of</strong> Medicine, vol. 21, no. 2, 2008, pp. 345–60.<br />
114 McLeod, Religious Crisis, pp. 161, 163. H. Cook, <strong>The</strong> Long Sexual Revolution:<br />
English Women, Sex and Contraception 1800–1975, Oxford, Oxford University<br />
Press, 2004, pp. 1–2; K. Fisher, Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in <strong>Britain</strong>,<br />
1918–1960, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 8. A number <strong>of</strong> women<br />
and reviewers wrote to me about failing to mention the pill in the first edition<br />
<strong>of</strong> this book; the omission was an accident when a paragraph was deleted before<br />
publication. McLeod suggested in a private communication that a rise in the<br />
use <strong>of</strong> condoms in the 1950s might have achieved a reduction in the illegitimacy<br />
rate, but so far I have seen no demographer make this argument.<br />
115 Though Whyte seems to think that the rise <strong>of</strong> Jackie from 1964 with just this<br />
revolutionary core message was not somehow overturning traditional<br />
discourses <strong>of</strong> training for marriage: Whyte, ‘Jackie Generation’, pp. 132–3.<br />
116 Quoted in D. Kynaston, Austerity <strong>Britain</strong>, London, Bloomsbury, 2007, pp. 374–5.<br />
117 G. Gorer, Exploring English Character, London, Cresset Press, 1955; Kynaston,<br />
Austerity <strong>Britain</strong>, p. 375.<br />
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