The Social Gospel is a social movement within Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war. It was most prominent in the early-20th-century United States and Canada. Theologically, the Social Gospelers sought to put into practice the Lord's Prayer : "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven". They typically were postmillennialist; that is, they believed the Second Coming could not happen until humankind rid itself of social evils by human effort. The Social Gospel was more popular among clergy than laity. Its leaders were predominantly associated with the liberal wing of the progressive movement, and most were theologically liberal, although a few were also conservative when it came to their views on social issues. Important leaders included Richard T. Ely, Josiah Strong, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch.
Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film.
Walter Greenwood was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel Love on the Dole (1933).
Ordeal by Innocence is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 November 1958 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and the US edition at $2.95.
Ian Durrant is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who is currently assistant manager at East Kilbride.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1910 American silent fantasy film and the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, made by the Selig Polyscope Company without Baum's direct input. It was created to fulfill a contractual obligation associated with Baum's personal bankruptcy caused by The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, from which it was once thought to have been derived. It was partly based on the 1902 stage musical The Wizard of Oz, though much of the film deals with the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not appear in the musical.
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell was a 19th-century New Zealand naturalist, politician, and land purchase commissioner. He was a founder and first secretary of the New Zealand Institute, and a collector of moa remains.
John Hartley Durrant was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
George Donald Durrant is a prominent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has written or co-authored more than 50 books, been a university professor, worked in several positions in the LDS Church Educational System, a motivational speaker, and an LDS Church employee. He has taught Religion at Brigham Young University (BYU), and his published books include "Love at Home, Starring Father" (1976).
Glen Durrant, nicknamed "Duzza", is an English professional darts player who currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He previously won the BDO World Darts Championship three times consecutively from 2017 to 2019. He is also a two-time World Masters and three-time Finder Darts Masters champion. After switching to the PDC in 2019, Durrant secured his maiden PDC major title by winning the 2020 Premier League.
Greenpark Productions Ltd is a British documentary film production company, founded by Walter Greenwood in Polperro, Cornwall in 1938. The company relocated to London in 1939. After the war it expanded into making upmarket corporate films. Amongst its roster of directors were Ken Annakin, Ralph Keene and Humphrey Swingler, brother of the poet Randall Swingler.
Mulholland Books (UK) is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house, now a division of Hachette UK. It specialises in the suspense fiction genre including crime novels, thrillers, police procedurals, spy stories and supernatural suspense
Only Mugs Work is a 1938 melodromatic crime novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. Greenwood had established his reputation in 1933 with Love on the Dole, set in a district closely modelled on working-class Salford. In this case the setting is shifted to London's Soho, but features a similar blend of realism and drama. It is set amongst the spivs of the capital city. It was one of a number of novels that focused on the activities of the London underworld in the late 1930s including There Ain't No Justice, The House in Greek Street and Night and the City.
Saturday Night at the Crown is a 1959 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It was his final novel, inspired by his 1954 play of the same title. The play had premiered in Morecambe in 1954 before running for 234 performances at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End from 1957 to 1958. He dedicated to the novel to Thora Hird who had starred in the play.
Down by the Sea is a 1956 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It is the final entry of a trilogy set in the fictional fishing port of Treeloe in Cornwall. Durrall, the principal protagonist of the previous novel marries a woman and is able to prosper by opening his cottage as a tea house for tourists.
So Brief the Spring is a 1952 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It is the first in the author's trilogy set in the fictional fishing port of Treeloe in Cornwall. It was developed out of a play which Greenwood had written in 1945. The novel is dedicated to Robert Newton who appeared in the play. It focuses on Randy Jollifer, formerly of the Royal Navy, attempting to settle down to postwar life in his home town. The book and its sequels sold steadily, without enjoying the spectacular popularity of his best-known work Love on the Dole.
The Secret Kingdom is a 1938 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. Like his best-known novel Love on the Dole it is set in Salford. It portrays the working-class socialist Byron family, and particularly the eldest daughter Paula who tries to establish an independent identity after finding working a parlour maid. She encounters Bert Treville in nearby Manchester and the two begin a courtship. After his death due to heavy drinking, she brings up her son Lance as a single-mother, throwing her effort into her talented child she is vindicated when he emerges as a talented concert pianist - performing on national radio in the final scene.
His Worship the Mayor is a 1934 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It was his second novel, following on from the success of his bestselling debut Love on the Dole the previous year. His new work drew on his experience as a Labour councillor, and focuses on corruption in local government a theme also addressed in Winifred Holtby’s South Riding. The novel features Sam Grundy, the bookmaker who had appeared in Love on the Dole.
Standing Room Only is a 1936 comedy novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It was his third novel. Like his previous two, including his bestselling debut Love on the Dole, the work is partly set in his native Salford. The novel was somewhat self-reflexive as the protagonist Henry Ormerod strongly resembles Greenwood's own background and experiences. It was not as critically well-received as his two previous novels.
Something in My Heart is a 1944 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It is a loose sequel to his debut and best-known novel Love on the Dole, a 1933 work set in Salford at the height of the Great Depression. This book presented a more optimistic view of a potential postwar future that was absent in the despair in the original novel.
