The moralism that characterized the decades either side of 1800 - the so-called \'Age of William Wilberforce\' - has long been regarded as having a massive impact on British culture.
Evangelicalism, it argues, was not just an.
Converting Britannia shows for the first time how and why religious reformism carried such weight.
Yet the reasons why Wilberforce and his Evangelical contemporaries were so influential politically and in the wider Public sphere have never been properly understood.
The moralism that characterized the decades either side of 1800 - the so-called \'Age of William Wilberforce\' - has long been regarded as having a massive impact on British culture