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One of the most outstanding diarists in modern Britain, the leading churchman and public figure Herbert Hensley Henson (1863-1947) commenced his Journal in Birkenhead in 1885, while tutoring the indolent son of William Rathbone, a Liverpool shipping magnate. This extensively annotated edition publishes the first four volumes in full. It covers his experiences in a ship-building town hit hard by the industrial depression of the mid-1880s, and mired in religious sectarianism; his return to All Souls College, Oxford, and establishment of the Oxford Laymen's League for the defence of the Church, while agonising over whether he should become ordained; and his work at the Oxford House, the Anglican settlement in Bethnal Green, in combatting the influence of secularism. The value of the Journal from its earliest volumes is evident in its incisive commentary on people, places, and events, its searching reflections on Christianity and the authority of the Church, and in its fine literary style.

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Julia Stapleton is Professor Emeritus of Political Thought in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. She led the AHRC funded project that brought into digital publication Henson's journals between 1900 and 1939. Frank Field, CH, PC, DL, was the MP for Birkenhead from 1979 to 2019, and was made a life peer in 2020 as Baron Field of Birkenhead. He wrote extensively on poverty, anti-social behaviour, and welfare, and was an active layman in the Church of England.

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