Back to the sabbatical

Back to the sabbatical studies today - Monday - after a week off. Had a great time with Val in Naples and Pompeii celebrating our Silver Wedding, and it's all too quickly gone.

Back to reading today: "Anti-Booze Crusaders in Victorian Liverpool" by Tim Malcolm, a good survey of the subject.

I've also been writing the chapter on HSB's trip to America in 1872. The challenge in this is making it interesting reading, not just a list of "he went here, then he went there". I plan to finish this chapter tomorrow, then move on to the challenging chapter on his early working life. I'm also working in the background on the chapter "What he believed" about his theology and his views on various matters.