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The article discusses the London boarding house as setting and trope, in film, on stage and in literature, during the silent period. It identifies recurrent character types – notably, parsimonious and resentful landladies, resourceful skivvies and residents, both temporary and permanent, who are down on their luck and down at heel. Significantly, the boarding house recurrently displays a particular mise-en-scène. Films covered include Patricia Brent, Spinster (1919), Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921), Not for Sale (1924), Underground (1928), Daydreams (1928), The Vagabond Queen (1929) and A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929). Patrick Hamilton, this article suggests, is the pre-eminent figure in boarding house literature, from Craven House (1926) to Slaves of Solitude (1947). It also discusses returns to this London territory produced retrospectively and subsequent treatments of boarding house material, reinforcing an already established pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although historians, literary scholars, and sociologists have produced several significant studies of anti-Catholicism over the years, few have addressed the way adults sought to disseminate anti-Catholicism among children. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the British religious scene was rent by ecclesiastical divisions and theological parties. Even within the Church of England, mutually antagonistic Evangelical Protestant and Ritualist (also called Anglo-Catholic) branches developed. Zealous anti-Catholic Protestants were not just born; they were also formed through children's fear of violence and supposed fascination with it. This article offers a close examination of the magazines promoted by anti-Ritualist Protestant youth organizations demonstrates that sharing stories about the dangers of Catholicism was a common method of binding children of both genders more closely to their parents' theological subculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper considers the time and the place of drinking in modern British life, as represented in Patrick Hamilton's trilogy of novels set in the publand of London's West End in the interwar years, through Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope and with critical nods to Hagerstrand's time–geography corpus. The chronotopes of pubs and their neighbourhoods, which we term ‘publand’, are discussed initially in their novelistic presentation inTwenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky(1935), and then in relation to the ‘character zones’ of the novels' principal protagonists. The key themes, defined in the paper, are the asynchronicity of personal and social relations, the dialogic construction of heterochronicity, and the presentation of a prosaic chronotope. Though the paper is a contribution to literary geography, we aim to contribute to the cultural geographic understanding of the time–space rhythms and routines of everyday leisure drinking, making claims for the wider significance of chronotopic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article intends to bring to light the life of Patrick Hamilton, the first preacher and martyr of the Reformation in Scotland early in the the sixteenth century. According to John Knox, his martyrdom marked the beginning of the Scottish Reformation. Hamilton, who initially became an Erasmian in France, came into contact with Martin Luther's writings on justification by faith alone, which revolutionized his theology, turning him into the most powerful Lutheran Scotland has ever known up to this very day. Hamilton was tried and executed at the stake on the same day, when he was only 24 years-old. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]