https://www.peterstanford.org/other-writing daily 0.75 2020-05-02 https://www.peterstanford.org/other-writing/blog-post-title-one-292j2 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://www.peterstanford.org/other-writing/blog-post-title-two-td3z3 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://www.peterstanford.org/other-writing/blog-post-title-three-p4594 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://www.peterstanford.org/other-writing/blog-post-title-four-x5kmj monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://www.peterstanford.org/events daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://www.peterstanford.org/events/gaudi-gods-architect monthly 0.5 2026-03-03 https://www.peterstanford.org/events/st-albans-cathedral monthly 0.5 2022-07-25 https://www.peterstanford.org/events/henley-literary-festival monthly 0.5 2022-07-25 https://www.peterstanford.org/events/6gqcj7s1a6m6tlicm0q9zoq6kyipq6 monthly 0.5 2022-07-25 https://www.peterstanford.org/events/oxford-literary-festival monthly 0.5 2022-01-21 https://www.peterstanford.org/events/waterstones-canterbury monthly 0.5 2021-10-22 https://www.peterstanford.org/events/waterstones-liverpool monthly 0.5 2021-10-22 https://www.peterstanford.org/events/ways-with-word-at-southwold monthly 0.5 2021-10-22 https://www.peterstanford.org/contact daily 0.75 2023-12-28 https://www.peterstanford.org/about daily 0.75 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588263320144-AF3FGTBYLI84IAQEAV7B/About+Peter About https://www.peterstanford.org/home-1 daily 1.0 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/cc033df4-f4bc-4b2c-9625-38dc1e558a9e/Gaudi_FC_2.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588263704809-A2XF15NZVILSVM7MXK4P/Author+pic+by+Mykel+Nicolaou.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588338569953-DGTU2I5K3S1EJBPAQNIP/At+Southwark.jpg Home - Events Find out about Peter’s upcoming events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588351913384-R7BT4RJRETENUQGGQBR7/image-asset.jpeg Home - Other Writing See a collection of Peter’s other writing for publications such as the Telegraph, the Observer and the Tablet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588440376611-JSVP6DS2J5E7L81TC2UN/PS+at+Aldeburgh+4.JPG Home - Other Media Watch and listen to a selection of Peter’s recent live events and broadcast appearances https://www.peterstanford.org/c-daylewis-a-life daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588341589683-YA3H3I5XJ4FF2M42X7NL/Day-Lewis.jpg C Day-Lewis: A Life - “Shrewd, conscientious...Stanford is careful not to sound censorious. His book is all the better for this. It allows us to see Day-Lewis's charm as well as his calculation.” – Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, in choosing the book as Guardian Book of the Week https://www.peterstanford.org/judas-the-troubling-history-of-the-renegade-apostle daily 0.75 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588339718239-4EEK6CQL0JDM7FP9DBR1/judas.jpg Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle - 'a cracking piece of writing that posits such a great idea - a pilgrimage to Judas' – Frank Cottrell Boyce https://www.peterstanford.org/martin-luther-catholic-dissident daily 0.75 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588270197278-R70PJEU60NPFOMUQRCPM/Luther.jpg Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident - "Stanford conveys brilliantly to an atheist like me the nature of the internal battle Luther underwent...What makes this work so valuable is the writer's belief that religion is important, and that the relationship of the believer to God requires explanation. I wonder whether an atheist like me would have been half so effective a communicator of Luther's true importance." – David Aaronovitch: The Times https://www.peterstanford.org/books daily 0.75 2021-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/27525cfe-daaa-4298-953d-28944d9abaad/Gaudi_FC_2.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/fcc58ab5-301e-4167-9398-08c3c8f7beea/9781529396423+If+These+Stones+Could+Talk.jpg Books If These Stones Could Talk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1610470142369-7SQBTV3DIGPK9ENMY0H0/Jacket+final.jpg Books Pilgrimage - Journeys of Meaning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588349558590-PAGRV1AMFIQL97J66H80/Angles.jpg Books Angels: A Visible and Invisible History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588349657990-B4GSAFYRS8WC85XRGJJE/What+we+talk.jpg Books What We Talk About When We Talk About Faith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588349733844-HY9ZDYQ9ZQLYQJVICH0A/Luther.jpg Books Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588349773809-B66VWU0763OQ2VP4JY5I/judas.jpg Books Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588349839606-VM2AJ3YMDZ8G6BCO0ZCQ/how+to+read.jpg Books How To Read A Graveyard: Journeys In The Company of the Dead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588349885832-ECTA33TR3SKB1WF0J8RH/child.jpg Books The Death of a Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588349916561-JY16M4RTDCGIP3ECEVQ4/50.jpg Books 50 Religious Ideas You Really Need to Know https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588349967479-GRPHI4775H5PQ2OW0FKT/extra.jpg Books The Extra Mile: A Twenty First Century Pilgrimage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350045630-VDKY729J9NQZ8EO472T6/Life+of+Christ.jpg Books The Life of Christ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350077792-TFZ07Z0N24045M8GLS0U/Day-Lewis.jpg Books C Day-Lewis: A Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350110235-ILGV63CFQAXT8L7EROEE/Outcast.jpg Books The Outcasts Outcast: A Biography of Lord Longford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350147699-Z4UY95XD8ABDFPXKLHRC/Heaven.jpg Books Heaven: A Traveller's Guide to the Undiscovered Country https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350200426-OC3F55JZGNEDDZ98JFEJ/Browen.jpg Books Bronwen Astor: Her Life and Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350251889-VL0QV0P2IOI3WWN7271Z/She-Pope.jpg Books The She Pope: A Quest for the Truth Behind The Mystery of Pope Joan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350301495-I4Z2OBEW5ADQ6PNTWRTE/devil.jpg Books The Devil: A Biography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350339520-H9QETVFP1P5G1OMTUDB1/houses.jpg Books The Catholics and Their Houses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350387626-3LYH50HB177XAFF9BKHW/long.jpg Books Lord Longford: An Authorised Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350443296-XXGUQFV25PWL5UMJ2WGC/hume.jpg Books Cardinal Hume and The Changing Face of English Catholicism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350619715-GXCSZUQW0OYAGDEMERY3/sex.jpg Books Catholics and Sex https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350693936-C5034J3V8QNKGCQQV71H/Believing+Bishops.jpg Books Believing Bishops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588350763063-SW4XFMIBWNSW2GYXKB5T/why.jpg Books Other Books https://www.peterstanford.org/50-religious-ideas-you-really-need-to-know daily 0.75 2023-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588340716569-8HI2ZCCXAUYAHWYEXU62/50.jpg 50 Religious Ideas You Really Need To Know - 'Remarkably succinct, informative and insightful for such a brief compendium of ideas. It is something I will refer my students to on many occasions' – Letter from a senior school RE teacher in Australia https://www.peterstanford.org/catholics-and-sex daily 0.75 2020-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588345694571-ABGO0P248RWMZ17DMP66/sex.jpg Catholics and Sex - “What makes it compelling reading is the authors' palpable belief in their Church and their disgust that its strong teachings should be overshadowed by the sexual equivalent of angels on pinheads” – Irish Times https://www.peterstanford.org/angels-a-visible-and-invisible-history daily 0.75 2024-02-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588268510670-CE252JIKN02NC8YQYE3Z/Angles.jpg Angels: A Visible and Invisible History - "This thought-provoking and wise study might convince even the most determined atheist to wonder if there is a benign presence, of whatever kind, lurking behind their shoulder" – Alexander Larman: Observer https://www.peterstanford.org/the-devil-a-biography daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588344318311-3ODL04H33CHTY0S4B5Q2/devil.jpg The Devil: A Biography - “A vivid, impish and tantalising work on the dark side.” – Melvyn Bragg, BBC Radio 4 https://www.peterstanford.org/the-she-pope-a-quest-for-the-truth-behind-the-mystery-of-pope-joan daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588343836519-GGNWIHE7RXPB1DJ6CZA7/She-Pope.jpg The She Pope: A Quest for the Truth Behind The Mystery of Pope Joan - 'This is a most entertaining piece of detection and history which voyages bravely into heretical waters' – Michele Roberts, Independent on Sunday https://www.peterstanford.org/the-life-of-christ daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588341299806-5I5E1OOTDU06MQVW8U34/Life+of+Christ.jpg The Life of Christ - “The quality of this product is outstanding. I will definitely be buying more!” Available for Purchase in the USA https://www.peterstanford.org/bronwen-astor-her-life-and-times daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588342986138-666THTOE1S1DGQJVKOGE/Browen.jpg Bronwen Astor: Her Life and Times - “Well-written, conscientious and thorough…shows a good sense of place and period, convincingly recreating the post-war fashion world, the social scene at Cliveden, the London of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the bickering and barminess of Bronwen’s eccentric Christian communities” – Selina Hastings: Times Literary Supplement https://www.peterstanford.org/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-faith daily 0.75 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588269265909-4FOE11DMYDWFDOU5O3NG/What+we+talk.jpg What We Talk About When We Talk About Faith - 'Faith isn't talked about so much these days but, as this collection of Peter Stanford's conversations reveals, it is a subject that is fascinating to explore whether you have it, never had it, or had it and lost it. It is a truly wonderful book'. – Jimmy McGovern https://www.peterstanford.org/cardinal-hume-and-the-changing-face-of-english-catholicism daily 0.75 2020-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588345173021-WUYMPXMQPS9VNGG66EZ7/hume.jpg Cardinal Hume and The Changing Face of English Catholicism - “A perceptive insight into the reasons for Cardinal Hume’s immense personal appeal” – Charles Lysaght, Irish Independent https://www.peterstanford.org/the-extra-mile-a-twenty-first-century-pilgrimage daily 0.75 2020-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588340987987-L2G30D8UKUWP37BW22CI/extra.jpg The Extra Mile: A Twenty First Century Pilgrimage - 'While Stanford takes quiet pleasure in unpicking woolly thinking, he writes movingly about the pull of the past, recognising that in hard times, the path of enlightenment becomes an appealing road-trip.’ – Victoria Segal: The Guardian https://www.peterstanford.org/other-books daily 0.75 2020-05-01 https://www.peterstanford.org/the-outcasts-outcast-a-biography-of-lord-longford daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588342378735-SNCZG311IX6PKRIRENZN/Outcast.jpg The Outcasts Outcast: A Biography of Lord Longford - “Well-judged and sympathetic but not sycophantic” – PD James Mail on Sunday https://www.peterstanford.org/heaven-a-travellers-guide-to-the-undiscovered-country daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588342592824-SO7E3RAIWWAK944439HF/Heaven.jpg Heaven: A Travellers Guide to the Undiscovered Country - “Witty, engaging and inclusive” – Karen Armstrong https://www.peterstanford.org/how-to-read-a-graveyard-journeys-in-the-company-of-the-dead daily 0.75 2020-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588340253968-FWVVUBJJLV8T8NTF3JUP/how+to+read.jpg How To Read A Graveyard: Journeys In The Company of the Dead - ...this is a gentle, timely polemic against the marginalisation of graveyards as a symbol of our sense of existence, memory and the passage of time...you'll find How To Read a Graveyard dead marvellous...' – Jay Merrick, The Independent https://www.peterstanford.org/lord-longford-an-authorised-life daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588344878950-YJCSUMCKFWIZ8SGVH3FB/long.jpg Lord Longford: An Authorised Life - “So well-balanced that it may be little to Longford's taste” – Bevis Hillier, Spectator https://www.peterstanford.org/the-catholics-and-their-houses daily 0.75 2020-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588344601472-AE8X1VN4KFAY1M0ILT5H/houses.jpg The Catholics and Their Houses - "Tolerance does not require us to be blind to past excesses. Indeed it demands the opposite. We have to recognise where we went wrong to ensure that we never do so again. This book allows its readers to dip into a tragic period of history without ever preaching at them. I can heartily recommend it." – His Grace the Duke of Norfolk https://www.peterstanford.org/believing-bishops daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://www.peterstanford.org/the-death-of-a-child daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1588340490393-67A63KRSKQZ6OGK5UNGW/child.jpg The Death of A Child - “The collection provides our pain-denying culture with a new map of mourning” – Times Literary Supplement https://www.peterstanford.org/other-media daily 0.75 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/7db3d601-e41c-4c1e-bb01-972952cddc75/HAJJ.png Other Media - Listen to my appearance on the Trapped History podcast in December 2023 discussing the sinking of a boat of pilgrims on their way to Mecca. In discussion, I draw on wider aspects of pilgrimage, the subject of my 2021 book. https://www.peterstanford.org/pilgrimage-journeys-of-meaning daily 0.75 2024-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1610470486806-MZDAU7CAXFY49RLVBZ1Z/Pilgrimage.jpg Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning - ‘The book’s best passages give the reader a sense of what makes these places unique…We are reminded that people can be drawn towards pilgrim shrines for reasons which have little to do with trends in the travel industry.’ Guy Stagg: The Spectator https://www.peterstanford.org/if-these-stones-could-talk daily 0.75 2022-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaaf3d85d4a651e82565993/1630147493935-HND02NN2JM0ILD93C85P/9781529396423+If+These+Stones+Could+Talk.jpg If These Stones Could Talk - “ In this rich and beguiling book, Peter Stanford gets old stones to tell us about the turbulent history of Christianity in the British Isles ” Richard Holloway https://www.peterstanford.org/new-page daily 0.75 2026-03-03