A.N. Wilson

The English were never an overtly religious lot

Undeterred, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a breezy tour of the nation’s religious history, from the Venerable Bede to the present

A 12th-century miniature painting though to be of the Venerable Bede. [Getty Images]

  • The English Soul: The Faith of the Nation

    Peter Ackroyd

    Reaktion Books, pp. 376, £20

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