The Catholics

The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history ¿ ''A first-class storyteller'' The Times

Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy ¿ which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome ¿ English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith. Even after the passing of the emancipation acts Catholics were still the victims of institutionalised discrimination.

The first book to tell the story of the Catholics in Britain in a single volume, The Catholics includes much previously unpublished information. It focuses on the lives, and sometimes deaths, of individual Catholics ¿ martyrs and apostates, priests and laymen, converts and recusants. It tells the story of the men and women who faced the dangers and difficulties of being what their enemies still call ¿Papists¿. It describes th