Doing his duty in the
industrial north: the first Bishop of Wakefield, the hymn-writer
William Walsham How, who had recoiled at the prospect of "spending
his declining years in a region of smoke, of coal pits, and mill
chimneys", in a portrait reproduced with many other black-and-white
photos in Kate Taylor's Wakefield Diocese: Celebrating 125
years (Canterbury Press, £14.99 (£13.50);
978-1-84825-253-0). This is a history, readable while scholarly, of
the diocese since its foundation in 1888. This wide-ranging record
- from Mirfield to the MU, and from pioneer Ritualists to Bishop
Eric Treacy - spares the reader notes, but has a full index