Sink or Swim: Catholicism in Sixties Britain through John Ryan's Cartoons
You may also like…
-
The (True?) Story of Eustace the Monk
Paperback (colour) £6.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-908381-10-1Eustace was a naughty monk who lived in France during the Middle Ages. This engaging and enjoyable book for younger readers tells an intriguing story with an educational twist.
-
Catholic Bishops of Great Britain: A Reference to Roman Catholic Bishops from 1850 to 2015
Hardback (colour) £60.00
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-910519-25-7An essential reference cataloguing the biographical history and significant events of all Roman Catholic diocesan bishops who have been in office since the Restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850, and in Scotland since the Restoration in 1878.
-
The Song of Hild
Paperback
£14.99£12.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-910519-86-8Translated from the #1 Danish Bestseller, this is a gritty, powerful story about the prominent role women played in the spread of Christianity in seventh-century Britain. Be are drawn into a world of dark dealings, powerful patriarchy and religious wrangling...
Buy this book!
Price: £12.99
E-Book Availability
Using a Windows or Android device? Download the Kindle or Kobo app to enjoy our e-books!
Share
Book Details
Format: Paperback (140 pages)
Publisher: Sacristy Press
Date of Publication: 15th November 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78959-138-5
Synopsis
The Sixties was an iconic decade, conjuring images of marked generational conflict and “sex, drugs and rock-n-roll”, but also of the Second Vatican Council (1962–5), the “permissive” legislation and Britain’s counter-culture, as well as the social transformations of the period encompassing ecumenism, the advent of the women’s movement and the beginning of the Troubles.
Better known as the creator of the BBC television series Captain Pugwash, John Ryan (1921–2009), through his weekly illustrations in the Catholic Herald, offered a topical interrogation of the British Catholic Church’s sometimes adaptive, though often inflexible responses to the changes and challenges of the period. This collection of Ryan’s cartoons provides a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties—encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.
Alana Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at King’s College London.
Isabel Ryan is the younger daughter of the artist and cartoonist John Ryan.
This is a delightful and instructive guide to the rollercoaster events and intellectual dilemmas as they were perceived by a layman whose medium of expression allowed him to be wry, nuanced, and ambivalent.
Glyn Paflin, Church Times