Drawing upon a multi-disciplinary methodology employing diverse written sources, material practices and vivid life histories, Faith in the family seeks to assess the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society relating to social mobility, the sixties, sexual morality and secularisation. Chapters examine the changes in the Roman Catholic liturgy and Christology; devotion to Mary, the rosary and the place of women in the family and church, as well as the enduring (but shifting) popularity of Saints Bernadette and Therese....

The new histories of love and romance within this edited collection illustrate changes (and indeed continuities) in understandings of affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement. Both established and emerging scholars contribute to understandings about the power, knowledge and pleasure of love and romance within twentieth century Britain.

Together, the essays in Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 problematize notions of a 'golden age' of romance in the 1950s, and received periodisations that plot a rapid 'rise' and...

Reflecting contemporaneously on the monumental events taking place in Rome (and throughout the Catholic world) as a consequence of the Second Vatican Council, the publisher and polemicist Frank Sheed wrote a book in 1968 entitled Is it the Same Church? Nearly fifty years on, this historical study of the social, cultural and gendered identities of English Catholics addresses a similar question, and surveys changes and continuities in their devotional lives and spiritual commitments, across three generations. Drawing upon a multi-disciplinary methodology employing diverse written sources,...