Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000

Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British Studies at the University of Rouen, France.Geraldine Vaughan is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Rouen, France.

• 1. Introduction: The Catholic “Other”- Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille and Géraldine Vaughan.- Part I: Living Together: Catholic Responses to Anti-Catholicism.- 2.  Catholic Strategies of Resistance to Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century England- Luc Borot.- 3. Anti-Popery in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: a Scottish Catholic Perspective- Clotilde Prunier.- 4. Everyday Anti-Catholicism in Early Eighteenth-Century England- Carys Brown.- Part II: Hating the Other: The Polemics of Anti-Catholicism.- 5. “The Great Contest between the Papist and Protestant”: Anti-Catholicism in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson- Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille.- 6. “Papists Make a Direct Profession of this Shamefull Sin”: Denouncing Catholic Ignorance in Seventeenth-Century England- Sandrine Parageau.- 7. Beyond “the General Consent of the Principall Puritans and Jesuits against Kings”: The Rationalist Pleafor Resistance in John Milton and Algernon Sidney- Christopher Hamel.- 8. Through the French Looking Glass – Antisemitism, Anti-Protestantism, and Anticlericalism: A Study in Doctrines of Hatred at The Turn of the Twentieth Century- Valentine Zuber.- Part III: Capitalizing on Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Englishness.- 9. The Scandalous Nun: Anti-Catholic Representations of English Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century- Laurence Lux-Sterritt.- 10. Joseph Addison, Anti-Catholicism and Politeness- Claire Boulard Jouslin.- 11. Papal Tyranny on the Stage: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the London Theatres- Marc Martinez.- 12. Anti-Catholicism and the Rhetoric of Slavery in Irish Writing, c. 1690-1730- James Ward.- Part IV: The Demise of Anti-Catholicism in the Secularised World?.- 13. Anti-Catholicism and the Scottish Middle Class, 1800-1914-Martin Mitchell.- 14. Fishing for Controversy: W. S. Kerr and the Demise of Church of Ireland Anti-Catholicism.- Alan Ford.- 15. A New Order in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland – The Museum of Orange Heritage- Karine Bigand.- 16. The Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism in Scotland- T. M. Devine and Michael Rosie.- 17. Conclusion: Taking the Long View of Anti-Catholicism- John Wolffe.

“This collection therefore appears to be aimed at scholars and students already acquainted with the historical developments across the period. ... It is indeed a searching and empirically valuable collection of articles which includes some well-documented and persuasive case studies from researchers working across periods and fields.” (Rachel Rogers, Miranda, Vol. 23, 2021)