POWER PLAYS AND PULPITS: Telford’s Century in Scotland 1750 – 1850

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Power Play - the imposition of authority or influence by one group over another.

Thomas Telford’s simple Parliamentary Churches symbolise a century of power plays that rumbled and shook Scotland: Protestants and Catholics; English language and Gaelic language; landlords and crofters; Moderates and Evangelicals; civil law and ecclesiastical law; the Kirk and dissenters; the State and the Established Church of Scotland . . . This book reveals the tension and turmoil in pulpits, parishes, parliament and beyond as competing forces played for power, hearts and minds in an ever-changing Scotland.

“A huge work of scholarship, history and story. Rooted in people and places, it examines and brings to life the saga of the church in the life and souls of the people of Scotland.”

Anna Magnusson, Writer and Broadcaster

John Leander Millar is a retired Church of Scotland minister, born in Irvine and raised in Glasgow. His faith was nurtured within the congregation of Cathcart Old Parish Church and after an early career in accountancy, divinity at the University of Glasgow called. John is a father to three and grandfather to six, and lives with his wife in Glasgow’s west end.