Table of Contents

Secularism - the national context; origins of the Leicester Society 1840-1880; Victorian heyday 1881-1900; F.J. Gould - positivist, socialist and pastor; who were the secularists? an analysis of the membership of secularism; secularism and leisure; secularism as community - health, welfare and education provision; approaches to life, duty and knowledge - the ideas and ideologies of local secularism; act and secularism; art, secularism and beyond. Appendix: Occupational analysis 1880-1900; recruitment by year 1880-1900.