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Radical Poverty

The Capuchins and Catholicism in Britain, 1850-2022

Radical Poverty

The Capuchins and Catholicism in Britain, 1850-2022

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Hardback

£85.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567717900
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 19/02/2026
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
This incisive work offers the first comprehensive analysis of the history of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Britain. Drawing on previously closed archives, this book dives into their origins and their presence in Britain as missionaries between the Reformation and the French Revolution. It then explores the establishment of a permanent province from the 1850s onward. Using manuscripts, letters, diaries, logbooks, mission reports, and unpublished accounts, this book explores how the Capuchin archives bring new perspective on a range of important historical moments, including nineteenth century anti-Catholicism, Catholic emancipation and the rebuilding of Catholicism in Britain, both World Wars, the impact of Vatican II, and the decline of the religious orders in Britain in recent decades.

Acknowledgments
Names and terminology
List of abbreviations
Glossary of key terms
List of illustrations

Introduction

Part I: Establishing a Presence


1. Reformation to Revolution, 1525-1850
2. Pioneers on the Peripheries, 1850-73
3. Anti-Catholicism on the Missions, 1850-73

Part II: A Province in Motion

4. Stabilizing and Instability, 1873 – 89
5. Renewal and Reform, 1890 – 1914
6. The Province at its Prime, 1915 –45
7. The Age of Apostolates, 1946 – 79
8. Itinerancy Renewed, 1980-2022

Part III: Missions at Home and Abroad

9. The Hopfields
10. America
11. India

Conclusion

Appendix

Select Bibliography

Index

Dr Liam Temple (Durham University, UK)

Liam Temple is Capuchin Fellow in the History of Catholicism at Durham University, UK