Catholic Staffordshire 1500–1850

Michael Greenslade

In Staffordshire the Catholic faith survived the changes of the sixteenth century more strongly that anywhere in England except Lancashire.

An elegantly told history of Staffordshire Catholicism up to Bl Pope Pius IX’s restoration of the episcopal hierarchy in 1850. The Staffordshire treated here is the historic county, before the changes of the nineteenth century, and after.


9780 85244 655 3

320 pages   Illustrated

£14.99 hardback