This book, the second to emerge from the author's long-term project "Brethren of the North", explores the early history of five churches in West Cumbria owing their origin to the Christian Brethren ("Open Brethren") movement, from the 1830s through to the turn of the twentieth century.
Using church archives where available, press reports, magazine articles, published book and letters, personal diaries, legal documents and more, not only the churches...