“In this magisterial volume Dr. Jones has revealed the full extent of Lingard’s historiographical labours and achievements.’’ Recusant History
“Edwin Jones has produced a very good book, and has re-introduced one of Catholicism’s greatest historians to the English-speaking world… all educated historians would do well to read this book.’’ Catholic Historical Review
“John Lingard was a member of the English Catholic community who wrote his ten-volume History of England in the years immediately preceding emancipation. But for the best part of a century after that event it was held by historians in the Whig-Protestant mainstream that a good Catholic historian was almost an oxymoron. Edwin Jones’s definitive research into Lingard is a major event in English historiography.’’ Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College
