The author served as an Economic Adviser in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 1998 to 2025. He holds a PhD in History from the University of London.
I am most grateful to the archivists of the Archdioceses of Westminster, Birmingham and Southwark, and of the Dioceses of Brentwood and Leeds, for facilitating access to records relating to the Guild. In particular, Westminster’s Diocesan Archives hold a full run of the Guild’s bulletins, and I am grateful for their permission to reproduce the various bulletin images.