Edward Norman

Norman is an emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse and was Dean of Peterhouse for seventeen years and Dean and Chaplain at Christ Church College, Canterburyand Professor of History at the University of York. He is a member of the Peterhouse school of history. Norman also was a BBC Reith lecturer in 1978, discussing the relationship between religion and politics. Margaret Thatcher once invited him to Chequers, although Norman insists he is not a Thatcherite and says he is 'appalled by the results of naked capitalism'. He has left the Church of England and has converted to the Roman Catholic Church, although he claims these two actions are independent of each other.

He has been involved with the Conservative Philosophy Group and has written for the Salisbury Review.

Books

The Catholic Church and Ireland (1965).
The Conscience of the State in North America (1968).
Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England (1968).
The Early Development of Irish Society (1969).
A History of Modern Ireland (1971).
Church and Society in Modern England (1976).
'Christianity and Politics' in Maurice Cowling (ed.), Conservative Essays (Cassell, 1978), pp. 69-81.
Christianity and the World Order (1979).
Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere (1981).
The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century (1983).
Roman Catholicism in England (1985).
The Victorian Christian Socialists (1987).
The House of God: church architecture, style and history (1990).
Entering the Darkness: Christianity and its modern substitutes (1991).
An Anglican Catechism (2001).
Out of the Depths (2001).
Secularisation (2002).
Anglican Difficulties (2004).
The Mercy of God's Humility (2004).
The Roman Catholic Church (2006).