The Mob and The Mayor by Stephen Huggins
The Salvation Army is well known for its work with the poor and disadvantaged. The Sussex seaside resort played a hugely important part in the wider anti-Salvation Army narrative as it was in Eastbourne that opposition was among the most violent and protracted.
"Eastbourne may seem the height of gentility now, but in the 1880s and 1890s it was the scene of violent persecutionEven the local council and mayor got in on the act. And the subject of their wrath? The Salvation Army. The better-off, who had retired to the town, found the Salvationist commitment to the poor and their evangelistic methods quite alien. The Army also angered the working-classes, who didnt wish to be admonished about the evils of drink. Skeleton armies targeted marching bands and riots broke out. The council made street marches a punishable offence, but the Salvationists carried on marching, suffering injury and jail. Who won? Read this absorbing tale to find out." -- Angela Wintle, Sussex Life, February 2021
Stephen Huggins has a keen interest in Victorian Studies. He is the author of two previous books A Gentleman in Khaki Ordered South: The Boer War Diary of Corporal George Stokes and With Her Fathers Love: The Diary of a Victorian Rectors Daughter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789760842 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789760844 |
| Title | The Mob and The Mayor |
| Author | Stephen Huggins |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| Year published | 2020-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 120 |
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