CHURCH CRAWLING: THE SECRET LIVES/ HIDDEN SECRETS (HB)

An entertaining journey through England’s rural parish churches from building conservator and church ‘rescuer’ Rachel Morley. Through their wall-paintings and monuments, their graffiti and plaques, their jumble of furniture and curios, Morley shows these buildings to be the expression of centuries of communal memory and folk culture – time capsules of connection to ancient and medieval ways of thinking, to revolutions and wars, to lives both glorious and humble.