Geoff Baker is Senior Academic Advisor at the Centre for Integrative Learning, University of Nottingham

'a gripping, sensitive, and insightful account of its subject, which manages at once to enhance and to challenge many ideas found within the existing canon of “recusant history".'Gabriel Glickman, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 51 No. 4'Reading and Politics shines a light on a significant and under-used source, and it may be hoped that it will point the way for social and cultural historians to exploit the potential of the Blundell papers.'Lucy Underwood, The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 99 (2)

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I:1. William Blundell’s family and friends2. William Blundell and the wider worldPart II:3. Reading and the construction of commonplaces4. Reading the confessional divide in early modern England5. A Catholic approach to the worldConclusionAppendix: Map of Little Crosby and surrounding areaBibliographyIndex

Geoff Baker is Senior Academic Advisor at the Centre for Integrative Learning, University of Nottingham

'a gripping, sensitive, and insightful account of its subject, which manages at once to enhance and to challenge many ideas found within the existing canon of “recusant history".'Gabriel Glickman, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 51 No. 4'Reading and Politics shines a light on a significant and under-used source, and it may be hoped that it will point the way for social and cultural historians to exploit the potential of the Blundell papers.'Lucy Underwood, The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 99 (2)

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I:1. William Blundell’s family and friends2. William Blundell and the wider worldPart II:3. Reading and the construction of commonplaces4. Reading the confessional divide in early modern England5. A Catholic approach to the worldConclusionAppendix: Map of Little Crosby and surrounding areaBibliographyIndex