Catholic Herald Michael Duggan: At my elbow, as I write, is a small tower of books, all volumes of English history, stacked up in order of age. At the top of the pile are the three published most recently: from 2011, the first volume of Peter Ackroyd’s History of England; then Daniel Hannan’s How We Invented Freedom and Why It Matters from 2013; and finally Robert Tomb’s The English and Their History (2015). Each in its turn has been lavished with publicity and praise. The Tombs volume, for example, was described by reviewers as ‘definitive’ and ‘magisterial’, the new standard work. Read full article here.
Recently Published Histories of England Ignore Irish and Catholic Input
Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.What’s in that Prayer? The Collect for the Feast of Septuagesima
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.What’s in that Prayer? The Collect for the Feast of Saint Agatha
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“She is the beautiful little virgin martyr of Catania, in Sicily, who was killed for the Catholic Faith. Her name is mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass. She is also one of the seven girls named in the Litany of the Saints.”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“These were three Japanese, members of the Society of Jesus, crucified for the Catholic Faith at Nagasaki in Japan.”
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