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    Salvation Army Miscellany

    By Richard Underwood

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    Salvation Army Miscellany is a collection that describes the workings of the Salvation Army in the UK during the 1970's and 1980's from the point of view of a young Salvation Army Officer. It includes stories about the Salvation Army Training College, Salvation Army Social Work, and Salvation Army Corps Work.

    Ranging from the sublimely funny to the deeply moving, the book provides a unique understanding of the inner workings of the Salvation Army, and provides insight to the social history of the UK during the 1970's and 1980's.

    Travel with the author through the Salvation Army Training College, and find out why William Booth had a false beard. Continue the journey through the Salvation Army's Hostel For Men, where heckling during sermons was the norm and where half of London were barred. Discover what made the Salvation Army officer set fire to his own house, and why why he was selling booze. Complete the journey via a funeral so hilarious the ceremony had to be halted, and find out what happened when the leg of the bed fell off.

    Most social history is written by polititians, and most organisational histories are written by their leaders. This book teaches you something about the social history of the UK, and about the Salvation Army, from the bottom up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Underwood
    Release dateNov 21, 2011
    ISBN9781465866745
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    Salvation Army Miscellany
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    Richard Underwood

    Richard Underwood’s wide range of publications is a reflection of his wide range of experience and interests.He joined the medical branch of the Royal Air Force straight from school and served in hospital and medical centres at home and abroad. After leaving the air force he became a student mental health nurse before becoming a police officer in Greater Manchester.He later became a minister of religion for twenty-years, being ordained and commissioned as a Salvation Army Officer and later becoming an Industrial Chaplain to the Fishing Industry as a Superintendent with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. Throughout this period, he was also undertaking ongoing training as a counsellor.On leaving the ministry he became a civil servant at a Government Office in Leeds where he specialised in Technology and Innovation, and became the Company Secretary of a Regional Technology Network before becoming a staff counsellor for the West Yorkshire Ambulance Service, and Chief Executive of a national counselling charity.He spent two periods as a welfare rights officer, one with Bolton Social Services and one with Salford Social Services, both in Greater Manchester, providing training and advice, and representing clients at Social Security appeal tribunals.In his late fifties he moved to Suffolk where he became a sheltered housing manager until his retirement. After retirement he returned to nursing, working on acute mental health wards at Ipswich hospital for several years until his seventieth birthday when he moved back to Droylsden, Manchester where he lives with his wife and from where he is engaged in writing and research.In his seventies he has been writing his Ann Perkins Detective Agency series of novels and conducting the research necessary for his series of popular science books.He can be contacted via his website at https://richard-underwood.com

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