Patrick's Politics: 'Merely an Affair of Conscience and Judgement'

An alert from February 22

Parsonage Unwrapped: Patrick's Politics - 'Merely an Affair of Conscience and Judgement'
Friday 22 February 2019, 19:30 h

The popular conception of Patrick Brontë is often of a man with hard-held conservative views, a stern Tory and supporter of the Establishment. On closer inspection, however, the story is not quite so clear-cut, as Patrick’s relatively progressive opinions on Catholic Emancipation and political reform often brought him into conflict with his friends and fellow churchmen. Discover more about Patrick’s politics in our first Parsonage Unwrapped event of the year.