Beresford Hope, the Church of England, and the Elementary Education Act of 1870

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Significant Extension ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Government Involvement ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Extension Of State ◽  
The Church

AbstractHistorians have used a number of political, social, and other factors to explain the controversy surrounding elementary education in Victorian Britain. This article underscores the importance of religious motivations. The Act of 1870 – a significant extension of state responsibility – did not end debates about the purpose of education and the pros and cons of government involvement and religious instruction. Prominent among voluntaryists and anti-secularists was A. J. Beresford Hope, whose position offers useful insights into the educational agencies of the Church and the manner in which churchmen responded to new circumstances. This article explains Hope’s attitude and uses it to explore some of the causes and consequences of the Act of 1870. What type of schooling best suited the British people? Should it have a basis in something other than religion? How could the Church and its supporters meet the challenges posed by education reform?

scholarly journals THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE 1870 ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 541-565
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Parker ◽  
Sophie Allen ◽  
Rob Freathy
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Education Act ◽  
The Church

The Wesleyans, The ‘Romanists’ and the Education Act Of 1870

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
John T. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Education Act ◽  
The Government ◽  
Wesleyan Church ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Church

The Wesleyan Church in the second half of the nineteenth century exhibited a high degree of anti-Catholicism, a phenomenon which had intensified with the ‘Romanising’ influence of the Tractarian movement in the Church of England. To many Wesleyans Roman and Anglo-Catholicism seemed synonymous and the battleground of faith was to be elementary education. The conflict began earlier in the century. When in 1848 Roman Catholic schools made application to the government for grants similar to those offered to the Wesleyans there was an immediate split in Wesleyan ranks. At the Conference in Hull in 1848 Beaumont, Osborn and William Bunting attacked their leadership. They claimed that Methodists should not accept grants in common with Catholics. Jabez Bunting, the primary Wesleyan spokesman of his age, was however rather less critical of the Roman Catholic Church than he had been previously and clearly advocated the continuation of the grant:

‘The Rudiments of Faith and Religion’: Religious Controversy at Oxford, 1860–1865

1971 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-353
Author(s):  
John Roach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Religious Controversy ◽  
Politics And Education ◽  
The Church

The link between religion, politics and education forms one of the major themes of Victorian history. Until the end of the 1820s only Churchmen had full political rights in England, and long after that time Dissenters were stern opponents of such Anglican privileges as the claim to levy church rates. Church of England feeling contributed greatly to Tory strength. Dissenters were prominent among Liberals and Radicals. As the State came to take a greater share in the control of education, sectarian bitterness was one of the main obstacles to official measures, because almost any plan for State intervention was bound to cut across some religious interest. In elementary education men like G. A. Denison resisted State policy in the name of the traditional teaching authority of the Church. In higher education there were forty years of debate and controversy before the universities of Oxford and Cambridge were finally freed from religious tests in 1871.

scholarly journals Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beckingham
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Public Lives ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article considers Victorian concerns about the rise of secret drinking amongst respectable women. These new, apparently dangerous, practices were blamed on licensed grocers and even railway station refreshment rooms. Understandings of different male and female natures went hand in glove with anxieties about the potential effects of drinking. That alcohol might be consumed in secret, at home, triggered concerns about the shameful state of womanhood and the risks for the domestic space and state of the family. This secrecy, and an apparent absence of reliable evidence as to the scale of the problem, is central to the methodological challenge and argument in this article. Using their knowledge of and putative responsibilities for the private sphere, women in the temperance movement organized against the grocer. The article analyses published accounts of women’s work in the Church of England Temperance Society, the British Women’s Temperance Association, and Women’s Total Abstinence Union. It argues that their efforts, rooted in private and domestic imperatives, tested the social and spatial reach of women’s reform work. Acting against the grocer helped women to articulate a distinctively public model of sober citizenship.

The Virgin Mary and Religious Conflict in Victorian Britain

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Religious Parties ◽  
Irish Catholics ◽  
Cult Of The Virgin ◽  
The Church

The Virgin Mary was a powerful and evocative figure around whom the competing religious parties of Victorian Britain arrayed their forces. She was at the forefront of controversy whenever Scottish and English Protestants clashed with Irish Catholics, and whenever evangelicals attempted to purge the Church of England of ritualism. Roman Catholic leaders placed the cult of the Virgin at the centre of their campaign to evangelise Britain after 1840. This article analyses the development of Marian Catholicism in Victorian Britain, and considers Anglo-Catholic and Protestant responses to the growth of the Marian cult.

Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 11th July 1982

Moreana ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (Number 157- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
John McConica
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

During the period in which these papers were given, there were great achievements on the ecumenical scene, as the quest to restore the Church’s unity was pursued enthusiastically by all the major Christiandenominations. The Papal visit of John Paul II to England in 1982 witnessed a warmth in relationships between the Church of England and the Catholic Church that had not been experienced since the early 16th century Reformation in England to which More fell victim. The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission was achieving considerable doctrinal consensus and revisionist scholarship was encouraging an historical review by which the faithful Catholic and the confessing Protestant could look upon each other respectfully and appreciatively. It is to this ecumenical theme that James McConica turns in his contribution.

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