Bishop Edward Lee Hicks kept a diary throughout his episcopate at Lincoln, from 1910 to 1919. The two foolscap volumes from which this book is edited offer 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. Bishop Hicks had special interest in women’s suffrage, the Labour movement and temperance reform; in church affairs he was an advocate of liberal theology and biblical criticism, the development of women’s work, a social gospel, and co-operation with the nonconformists; he was also President of the Peace League throughout the period covered by the diaries. 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.
Volume 82 The Diaries of Edward Lee Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln 1910-1919
Editor Selected and Edited by Graham Neville. Canon and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral 1982-1987. He has also been an examining Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and, until recently, a tutor with the Open University
Publication Date 1993
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English
Publisher A Lincoln Record Society Publication Published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
ISBN 0 901503 55 X
Content Contents, 1 page
Acknowledgement, 1 page
Introduction, Conventions used in transcription, Some abbreviations, 9 pages
The Diaries, 251 pages
Index of Persons, 17 pages
Index of Places, 12 pages
Index of Subjects, 7 pages
Price on dust jacket £25
Dust jacket blurb Bishop Edward Lee Hicks kept a diary throughout his episcopate at Lincoln, from 1910 to 1919. The two foolscap volumes from which this book is edited offer 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. Bishop Hicks had special interest in women’s suffrage, the Labour movement and temperance reform; in church affairs he was an advocate of liberal theology and biblical criticism, the development of women’s work, a social gospel, and co-operation with the nonconformists; he was also President of the Peace League throughout the period covered by the diaries. 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.
Reviews This 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
Editor Selected and Edited by Graham Neville. Canon and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral 1982-1987. He has also been an examining Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and, until recently, a tutor with the Open University
Publication Date 1993
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English
Publisher A Lincoln Record Society Publication Published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
ISBN 0 901503 55 X
Content Contents, 1 page
Acknowledgement, 1 page
Introduction, Conventions used in transcription, Some abbreviations, 9 pages
The Diaries, 251 pages
Index of Persons, 17 pages
Index of Places, 12 pages
Index of Subjects, 7 pages
Price on dust jacket £25
Dust jacket blurb Bishop Edward Lee Hicks kept a diary throughout his episcopate at Lincoln, from 1910 to 1919. The two foolscap volumes from which this book is edited offer 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. Bishop Hicks had special interest in women’s suffrage, the Labour movement and temperance reform; in church affairs he was an advocate of liberal theology and biblical criticism, the development of women’s work, a social gospel, and co-operation with the nonconformists; he was also President of the Peace League throughout the period covered by the diaries. 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.
Reviews This 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