Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain by Henry Pelling

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No parishioner is above the rank of working farmer. 4 At Amcotts in Lincolnsrure in 1895 "nearly an the inhabitants attend both Church and Chapel';6 the same was true elsewhere in the county, for instance, at Cumberworth. At Rolton-Ie-Moor: "Nearly an are labourers and farmers who do some labour on their farms. No chapel. R. Ely, 1897: Ely Diocesan Papers, Cambridge University Library, Mss. CS/S6-9. R. II. R. York, 1900. 4 Ibid. R. Lincoln, 1895: Lincolnshire Archives Office, Lincoln. Popular Attitudes to Religion kind was sorely lacking.

Le Play, Les Ouvriers Europeens (Paris, 1855), p. 193. My translation. P. 1861, xxi, 34. Popular A ttitudea to Religion 31 Miss M. Loane, the district nurse who wrote several books about working-eIass attitudes, commented: Few of those who Hing themselves into the conHict as to what religious instruction should be given in primary schools, seem to be aware that enormous numbers of children ... are in the habit of attending chapel Sunday Schools in the morning and Church Sunday Schools in the afternoon, and no doubts or difficulties seem to be roused in the scholars' minds.

128. Dr Hobsbawrn's essay is nevertheless an interesting study in religious sociology. 8 Holyoake, cited F. B. Smith, 'The Atheist Mission, 1840-1900', in Ideas and Institutions 01 Victorian Britain, ed. R. Robson (1967), p. 224. , Mann, Religious Worship, p. 93. 28 Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain secretary of the London Church Building Society, said: '1 think there is a good deal of floating doubtful scepticism, chiefly from the poor people not having been better taught.

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