The Dissenters: Volume II: The Expansion of Evangelical Nonconformity

This is the second of a projected three-volume history of Nonconformity in England and Wales. Following the widely-acclaimed first volume, which covered the period from Reformation to the French Revolution, this second volume deals with the years from 1791 to 1859. It was a period in which Evangelical Nonconformity underwent phenomenal growth and had a profound impact on nearly all aspects of English and Welsh society and on its economic and political life. The history of late Georgian and Victorian England and Wales, argues Dr Watts, cannot be understood without a knowledge of Nonconformity.