Beschreibung:
Examines the role and significance of Roman Catholics and Roman Catholic issues in English politics in the second half of the 19th century. The author investigates how Catholics saw themselves as a political body, and examines the ways in which they were accommodated by the major political parties.
Liberal Catholics and Catholic Liberals, 1850-74; Catholics and Tories, 1850-68 - a natural alliance?; Catholics and Tories, 1868-74; Lord Ripon - a Catholic in politics; Catholic Toryism during Disraeli's second ministry; Ripon - a Catholic in government; the Duke of Norfolk, Catholics and Toryism, 1880-1900.