National Prayers: Special Worship since the Reformation

A history of the annual British and Irish state and religious anniversaries and occasions of special worship from the sixteenth century to the present. Since the sixteenth century, the governments and established churches of Britain and Ireland have summoned their nations to special acts of public worship during crises, wars and times of celebration, or for annual days of commemoration and remembrance. These special prayers, special days of worship and religious anniversaries were national event