Description
Book SynopsisA very useful source for the history of the early 20th-century church. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Daily preoccupations of the bishop cast light on church and society in and around Lincoln before and during the first worldwar.Bishop Edward Lee Hicks' diary offers an honest picture of the daily life of a bishop in the period immediately before and during the first world war, a portrait of church and society in a largely rural diocese in the last phase before the radical transformation which the `Great War' hastened. The diary presents a largely church-centred picture; but it is also valuable as a personal view of such matters as Lincolnshire social life including the impact of war on the county, conditions of travel at the beginning of the era of the motor car, characteristics of the clergy, and frequent comment on items of archaeological and antiquarian interest.Canon
GRAHAM NEVILLEwas Canon andPrebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from 1982-1987.
Trade ReviewThis private diary offers a fascinating glimpse of the day-to-day life of a bishop in the early decades of the twentieth century... Illuminating and helpful...a very useful source for the history of the early twentieth-century Church of England. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *
Table of ContentsThe text of the diaries: volume I - June 24 1910-June 12 1915; volume II - June 15 1915-April 20 1919.
