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Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859–1929

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In a corner of Carlisle Cathedral Library, an undistinguished cardboard box is home to some dog-eared ephemera dating from 1892 to 1910. The documents illuminate the lives of members of the Sloan family, whose house at 10, Abbey Street, Carlisle, was situated in an Anglican urban parish at the heart of which was Saint Mary’s church. The Census tells us that in 1901, William and Ann Sloan, both aged 47, were the parents of 11 children, the eldest of whom worked with his father in the family painting and decorating business. Despite this large family, there was no living-in servant. We might know nothing more of the Sloans had it not been that amongst the box’s leaflets, text-books and pharmacy prescriptions is a collection of parish magazines, all named and addressed, some annotated.

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Platt, J. (2015). Introduction. In: Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859–1929. Histories of the Sacred and Secular 1700–2000. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362445_1

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