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'Papists' and prejudice : popular anti-Catholicism and Anglo-Irish conflict in the north east of England, 1845-70 /

The North East of England was regarded as a major Catholic stronghold in the nineteenth century. This was, in no small part, due to the large numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants who contributed greatly towards the region's unprecedented expansion, with the Catholic population in Newcastle and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bush, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Sumario:The North East of England was regarded as a major Catholic stronghold in the nineteenth century. This was, in no small part, due to the large numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants who contributed greatly towards the region's unprecedented expansion, with the Catholic population in Newcastle and County Durham increasing from 23,250 in 1847 to 86,397 in 1874. How far were the Catholic Church and its incoming Irish adherents accepted by the Protestant population of North East England? This book w ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (274 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-263) and index.
ISBN:9781443865029
1443865028