Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600-2000

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

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.

"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)