Anthony A.J. Williams
ContributorAnthony A.J. Williams is Lecturer in Political Theory at Manchester Metropolitan University. His first book, Christian Socialism as Political Ideology, is due to be published in 2020.
History
October 2, 2019
Christian Socialism in Britain: An Introduction
The first socialist society in Britain was not a political party or a trade union. It was rather a Christian society with an Anglo-Catholic basis, originally conceived as having the aim of persuading more parishioners to attend early-morning communion services.