Race Relations Act (1965) 548
Radbertus, Paschasius 215
Ragged Schools 431
Rahner, Karl 546
railways 438
Raleigh, Walter 330
Ramsey, Cambridgeshire 72
Ramsey, James 420
Ramsey, Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury 104, 524, 525, 547–8, 551–2, 556
Ranters 347, 351
Raphael, The School of Athens 159
Ravenspur, Yorkshire 212, 227
Ray, John 363
Raymond of Aguilers 117
Raymond of Toulouse 117
Reagan, Ronald 557, 558
Real Presence, doctrine of 216, 255, 273, 298, 448–9
see also consubstantiation; transubstantiation
Reckitt family 490
recusants 302, 303, 307, 308, 323, 332, 360–1
Redwald, king of the East Angles 27, 30, 32
Reeves, Ambrose 552
Reform Act
(1832) 428–30, 437, 439, 445, 589
(1867) 478
(1885) 480
Reformation
of the English Church, 255–256, 265–268, 271–281
Protestant, 235, 270–271
Reformed Protestantism 271
Regan, Patrick 573
registration, of marriage and baptism 441–2
Regnans in Excelsis (papal bull, 1570) 304, 308, 309
regular clerics 173
Regularis Concordia 69
Reith, John, 1st Baron Reith 522
relics 150–1
Religious Opinions Relief Act (1846) 389
Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front 517
Renaissance 235, 326
Renan, Ernest 474
Renewal (magazine) 550
Repingdon, Philip 220
Repton, Derbyshire 52
Restitutus, Bishop of London 15
Restoration Settlement 353–8
Rethel, Alfred 443
Revelation, Book of 10
Reyntiens, Patrick 539
Rheims Bible 311
Rhodes, Cecil 497
Rich, Edmund
see Edmund of Abingdon
Rich, Richard 259
Richard I, Duke of Normandy 75
Richard I, King of England 108, 114, 117, 118
Richard II, King of England 209–13, 221
Richard III, King of England 228–9, 235, 236
Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans 125
Richborough, Kent 7
Richelieu, Cardinal 325, 333
Richmond, Duke of 243
Ridley, Nicholas 264, 278, 280, 287, 290
Ridley, Robert 264
Ridolfi Plot (1571) 308–9
Rievaulx Abbey 142
Rimini, Council of (359) 15
Ripon Abbey 46, 68
Ripon monastery 41
Robert of Gloucester 94–5
Robinson, Gene, Bishop of New Hampshire 570, 571
Robinson, John, Honest to God (1963) 548–9
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Earl of 407, 419
Roger II, King of Sicily 164
Roger of Hereford 174
Roger of Pont l’Évêque 109, 112
Rogers, Bill 559
Rogers, John 286
Rolle, Richard 199–201, 217, 587
Rollo of Normandy 85, 92
Roman Catholics
under Elizabeth I 306–13
under James I 323–4
after the Restoration 356, 358–61, 381–2
in Ireland 414
18th century 402–3
Catholic Emancipation 425–8
churches restricted to towns 489
late 19th century 492–6
growth in the 20th century 511–12, 526–7, 542–3
and ecumenism 533
decline in numbers (1970s) 553–4
visit of John Paul II to England (1983) 561
largest single denomination in England 575
decline in the priesthood 576
Roman mission to England 28–31
Romanesque churches 94, 105, 149–50
Romano-Celtic Church 20, 28, 31, 47, 53, 138
Romans
invasion and occupation of Britain 3–20
Christianity established as religion of Empire 13
Rome, Council of (1059) 95
rood screens 150, 272, 307, 449
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 523, 531, 534
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 443, 470
Roubillac, Louis François 375
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 413
Rowlandson, Thomas 415
Rowle, Fulwar Craven 438
Rowntree, Joseph 461
Rowntree, Sebohm 489
Royal Bible (illuminated manuscript) 72
Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes (1885) 477
royal family, ideal of 409–10
Royal Society 352, 363, 364, 366
Royal Titles Act (1876) 479
Roye, William 261
Rudolf, Edward 491
Rudolph of Zurich 301
Rufus, Richard 143
Rule Britannia 406
Rump Parliament 343, 344
Runcie, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury 554, 557, 558–61, 560
Runnymede 119
Rupert of the Rhine, Prince 325, 338
Ruskin, John 417, 470
Russell, Bertrand 540, 545
Russell, John, 1st Earl Russell 430, 441, 454, 463, 478
Russell, William, Lord 360
Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire 49
Rutter, John 586
Ruysbroeck, William van 172
Ryder, Sue 532
Rye House Plot (1683) 360, 368, 369
Ryle, John, Bishop of Liverpool 473, 476, 487