About the Author

Before her retirement, Evelyn Lord was course director of the masters in local and regional history, University of Cambridge. She has published widely on local history and is the author of The Knights Templar in Britain and The Stuart Secret Army.

Reviews

"A superb book with exemplary scholarship...I doubt very much once you've opened it that you will be able to put it down." - Birmingham Post--Richard Edmonds"Birmingham Post" (09/12/2008)"

"In fitting the clubs into more general eighteenth-century concerns, Lord has done historians of the period a service."--;i>The Journal of Ecclesiastical History--Jeremy Gregory "The Journal of Ecclesiastical History "

"Neatly structured and scrupulously written." -;i>Sunday Times--Frances Wilson"Sunday Times" (09/28/2008)