Christian Modernities in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century

This book address various specific topics - from mass politics to sexuality - but are linked by a stress on how Christians played active roles in building ＂modern＂ life in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland.

The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

John Carter Wood is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany. He is the author of Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement (2004); The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials ofBeatrice Pace (2012); and This Is Your Hour: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis ofEurope (2019). He has written several articles and essays on the topics of crime, violence, media, gender, and intellectual history.