A Parson in Wartime - The Boston Diary of the Reverend Arthur Hopkins, 1942-1945 - Publications of the Lincoln Record Society #107

Malcolmson, Patricia (edited); Malcolmson, Robert (edited); Stephenson, Ann (edited)

ISBN 10: 1910653039 / ISBN 13: 9781910653036

Edité par The Lincoln Record Society; The Boydell Press, Lincoln, UK, 2017

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First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in cream cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 247pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light indentation to rear dustjacket. (77/6).

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1784531252556

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Parson in Wartime - The Boston Diary of the Reverend Arthur Hopkins, 1942-1945 - Publications of the Lincoln Record Society #107
• Éditeur: The Lincoln Record Society; The Boydell Press, Lincoln, UK
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1910653039
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781910653036
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Impression: 1er tirage
• État de l'article: Assez bon
• État de la jaquette: Assez bon
• Dimensions: 16,51 L x 24,13 H x 2,54 P (centimètres) 16,51 centimètres de largeur par 24,13 centimètres de hauteur par 2,54 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 735 grammes

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Synopsis

A vivid picture of wartime Lincolnshire, and an engagingly readable account of the life of a busy parish priest.

Arthur Hopkins arrived in the Lincolnshire town of Boston in November 1942 to take up the post of Vicar of St Thomas's Church in the working-class parish of Skirbeck Quarter. He was already writing almost daily instalments of a diary for the social research organisation, Mass Observation. Generously conceived, it is written almost as if it were a series of letters to a friend abroad, providing descriptions and comments on everyday life in wartime. Little was beneath his notice. This was a man who had attended university with the King after the Great War and had prominent relations, but was also egalitarian in his leanings and sympathetic to the "common people". His is the diary ofa thoughtful and perceptive individual who had a realistic sense of himself, his society, and the fragility of life; the engagingly readable entries reveal fascinating details of wartime Lincolnshire and the life of a busy parishpriest. The diary is edited here with introduction and notes.

Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in English diaries written between the 1930s and 1950s. They have edited for publication over a dozen of these diaries.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Arthur Hopkins arrived in the Lincolnshire town of Boston in November 1942 to take up the post of Vicar of St Thomas's Church in the working-class parish of Skirbeck Quarter. He was already writing almost daily instalments of a diary for the social research organisation, Mass Observation. Generously conceived, it is written almost as if it were a series of letters to a friend abroad, providing descriptions and comments on everyday life in wartime. Little was beneath his notice. This was a man who had attended university with the King after the Great War and had prominent relations, but was also egalitarian in his leanings and sympathetic to the common people. His is the diary of a thoughtful and perceptive individual who had a realistic sense of himself, his society, and the fragility of life; the engagingly readable entries reveal fascinating details of wartime Lincolnshire and the life of a busy parish priest. The diary is edited here with introduction and notes.