PUBLISHED NEWMAN DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY, PASTORAL RESEARCH
CENTRE & RELATED BOOKS, REPORTS & PAPERS
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NEWMAN DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY. PUBLISHED REPORTS & PAPERS
Archer, John F. (Foreword by A.E.C.W. Spencer). Age & sex distribution of
Catholics in England & Wales, mid-1952. A first approximation. 1954/2005. A4, pp.4,
ISBN 1-905270-17-8 75p.+P&P.
Brooke, Eileen (Ed.) Statistics of secular and regular clergy and priestly vocations,
1870-1957. 1958/2005. Foolscap, pp.12+ii, mimeo. ISBN 1-905270-03-8. £2-50+P&P.
Chapple, Michael, and A.E.C.W. Spencer (eds.) Report to the Catholic clergy of England &
Wales on the parish register returns for 1958. 1960/2005. A4, pp.2, facsimile.
ISBN 1-905270-27-5. £0-50p.+P&P
Hickey, John. The Irish rural immigrant and British urban society. 1960.2005. Quarto, pp.59+v,
mimeo. ISBN 1-905270-04-6. £5-00+P&P.
Morris, H. Graham (Ed.) Teachers in Catholic schools in England & Wales, January, 1962. An
analysis by diocese, status and type of school, and the sex, religious status and
educational status of teachers. 1963/2005. A4, pp. i+19, facsimile.ISBN 1-905270-24-0.
£3.00.
Morris, H.Graham, and Anthony E.C.W. Spencer (Eds.) Pupil enrolment statistics of
Catholic schools in England and Wales, January, 1960. Supplementary tables:
I Boarders, II Educationally sub-normal pupils. A4, pp.15, facsimile.
ISBN 1-905270-21-6. £ 3.00+P&P.
Morris, H. Graham, and Anthony E.C.W. Spencer (Eds). Digest of statistics of Catholic schools
in England & Wales, 1961. Schools, pupils and teachers, by diocese & local education
authority. 1961/2009. A4, pp. vii+61. ISBN 978-1-905270-45-3 £11.30+P&P.
Nevin, Edward T. (Ed.) Report on the social census of the parish of Aberystwyth, 1955.
1955/2005. Quarto, on A4, pp.9, mimeo. ISBN 1-905270-05-4 £1-00+P&P.
Parkin, Barbara (Ed.) Converts to Catholicism. An analysis by age and sex of
applications to the Chancery office of the Archdiocese of Westminster,
1917-1953, for a licence to reconcile a convert. 1955/2005. A4, facsimile, pp. ii+37.
ISBN 1-905270-22-4. £6.50+P&P.
St Rose-Haynes, Joan. Maintained school place requirements of the Catholic community in the
administrative county of Hertfordshire, 1964-1970. 1964/2005. A4, pp.iii+42 (10 charts),
facsimile. ISBN 1-905270-26-7. £7.50+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (ed.) Report to the parish clergy of England & Wales on the parish register
returns for 1959. 1961/2005. A4, pp.3, facsimile. ISBN 1-905270-28-3. £0-75p+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (ed.) Report to the parish clergy of England & Wales on the parish register
returns for 1960. A4, pp.8, part facsimile. ISBN 1-905270-29-1
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Supply & demand of teachers for Catholic maintained schools, 1965.
Preliminary report to the Catholic Education Council. 1955/2005. A4, pp.iv+8,
facsimile. ISBN 1-905270-13-5. £2-00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed). Notes on statistics of the dioceses of England & Wales. A study
for the International Conference on the Formative Power of the Church in the new
Europe, Munich, 1960. 1960/2005. Foolscap, pp.7, mimeo. ISBN 1-905270-10-0
£1-75+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed). The Catholic population of England, Wales, Channel Isles and
the Isle of Man, 1961. Selected pastoral statistics, according to Local Education
Authority and Diocese. An Interim Review. 1963/2005. A4, pp.i+9, facsimile.
ISBN 1-905270-12-7 £2.00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed) Estimates of the number of Catholics under the age of 15 in
England and Wales on 1st January, 1955, by age and sex. 1955/2005. Foolscap, pp.13,
mimeo. ISBN 1-905270-11-9. £2.50+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The selection of a date for the annual count of Mass attendance.
Report prepared for the Hierarchy of England & Wales,1961. Foolscap, pp.7, mimeo.
ISBN 1-905270-07-0. £2.20+P&P. 1961/2005.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) The balance of training in the Catholic teacher training colleges
during the 1960s. A report prepared for the Catholic Education Council and the
Committee of Principals of Catholic Teacher Training Colleges. Foolscap, pp.7,
mimeo. ISBN 1-905270-20-8. £1.75+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (ed.) Catholics in the universities of England & Wales, 1960/1. An interim
report on the Catholic Student Index Scheme. 1962/2005. ISBN 1-905270-18-6.
£3-00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed) An annotated bibliography of Newman Demographic Survey
reports and papers, 1954-1964. 1963/2006. A4, pp.ii+19. ISBN 1-905270-30-5
£3.50+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The 1955 Census of Catholic schools in England & Wales. Introduction to
the series. 2011. A4. pp.13. ISBN 978-1-905270-58-3. £2.90+ P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) The 1955 Census of Catholic schools in England & Wales. Diocese of
Brentwood. 2011. A4. pp.20. ISBN 978-1-905270-60-6. £6.40 +P&P. (Price includes
Introduction to the series.)
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) The 1955 Census of Catholic schools in England & Wales. Diocese of
Menevia. 2011. A4. pp.19. ISBN 978-1-905270-62-0 (3rd edn.) £6.10 +P&P. (Price
includes Introduction to the series.)
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The 1955 Census of Catholic schools in England & Wales. Archdiocese of
Cardiff. 2011. A4. pp20. ISBN 978-1-905270-54-5. £6.70 +P&P. Price includes
Introduction to the series.)
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The 1955 Census of Catholic schools in England & Wales. Diocese of
Clifton. 2010. A4. pp.19. ISBN 978-1-905270-65-1.£8.20+P&P (Incl. Introduction to
series).
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The suppression of a research report. Another long slow failure. Reflections
on a very secret disaster. 2008/2012. A4. pp.3 ISBN 978-1-905270-66-8. FREE
Spencer, A.E.C.W. and Juanita Byrne-Quinn (Eds.) Projected teacher deficiency of Catholic
Maintained and assisted schools, January, 1958-1970. A report prepared for the Catholic
Education Council.1958/2006.A4. pp.ii+45, facsimile. ISBN 1-905270-14-3
£7.50+P&P.
Spencer, Anthony (ed.) and Mary Daly (ed.) Arrangements for the integration of Irish
immigrants in England & Wales. Pp.xviii + 137. Hardback ISBN 978-1-906865-11-5.
Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission. €35.00. See Related Books.
Woolgar, Daniel (Ed.) Census of Catholic clergy and religious, May, 1961. A preliminary report.
1962/2005. A4, pp.ii+6, facsimile. ISBN 1-905270-23-2. £1.00+P&P.
Woolgar, Daniel (Ed). Census of Catholic Clergy and Religious, England & Wales, 1961.
General Tables. Vol. I. Secular Clergy. 1963/2005. A4, pp.xix+23, facsimile.
ISBN 1-905270-08-9. £7-00+P&P.
Woolgar, Daniel, and A.E.C.W Spencer (eds.) Census of the Catholic parish of Liverpool
St Timothy, 1961. 1961/2008. A4, pp.ii+18. ISBN 978-1-905270-42-2. £5.40+P&P.
PASTORAL RESEARCH CENTRE. PUBLISHED REPORTS & PAPERS
Spencer, A.E.C.W. A critical appraisal of the structure of Catholic education in England
& Wales. (Facsimile edition of a paper read at a Newman Association conference,
October, 1963, with a Personal Postcript added in 2005.) 1963/2005. A4, pp.38+ii. ISBN
0-901707-09-0. £7-00 + P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The estimation and projection of Catholic population in an area of diaspora
or mixed religion. A paper read at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Statisticians,
Oxford, 1964. 1964/2005. A4, pp. 12. ISBN 0-901707-03-1. £2-50+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Report on the parish register statistics of the Catholic Church in Scotland,
1966. 1967. 22.1x14.6cm, pp.23+2 maps. ISBN 0-901707-00-7. £3-00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) Christian Teacher Training Institutions. Register of Christian
Church-related teacher training institutions in Africa, Asia & Latin America,
1964-5. 1968. (In English, French & Spanish). A re-issue of a report published in 1968
by Burns & Oates and Herder and Herder. A4, pp.116+xl. ISBN 0-901707-05-8.
£10-00 + P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Report on the parish register, religious practice & population statistics of
the Catholic Church in Scotland, 1967. 1969. 22.1x14.6cm, pp.45+map.
ISBN 0-901707-01-5. £6-00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The future of the episcopal and papal roles. 1970. (Re-print of a paper
published in IDOC International North American edition, 9 May, 1970.) A4, pp.8.
ISBN 0-901707-02-3. £1-50+P&P. Free
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The organization of Catholic education in New Zealand. An Interim Report.
I972/2005. (A facsimile edition of the Interim Report of 1972, with new Personal
Postscript by the author and Foreword by John J. Small). Pp.554+ xvi.
Library edition (buckram) ISBN 1-905270-00-3. £64-50+P&P.
Laminated board (with plastic spiral binding) ISBN 1-905270-02-X.£40-00+P&P.
Paperback (open-flat, thermo-binding) ISBN 1-905270-01-1. £37-50+P&P
Spencer, A.E.C.W. From crisis of growth to rapid decline. Demographic change within the
Catholic community of England & Wales, 1958-1973. 2005. A4, pp.14.
ISBN 0-901707-07-4 £2-50+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Alienation re-visited. The demography of Catholicism in England & Wales,
1958-1977. (Paper read at a conference of the British Sociological Association’s
Sociology of Religion Study Group, at the University of Surrey, 1979). 1979.2005. A4,
pp.13+6. ISBN 0-901707-07-4 £3.00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) Pastoral and population statistics of the Catholic community in
England & Wales, 1958-2002. A report to parishes. 2004. A4, pp8. ISBN 0-901707-06-6.
£1-00+P&P. Free
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The development of integrated education in Belfast: a planning study for
1984-9. 1984/2005. A4, pp. ii+67+xxiv+4 maps. ISBN 1-905270-14-3. £15.00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Second Spring. The demography of the Catholic community of England
and Wales, 1850-1865: marriages, baptisms, converts and Catholic population. 2005.
A4, pp.ii+13. ISBN 0-901707-04-X. £2.50+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed). Pastoral and demographic statistics of the Catholic Church in England
& Wales, 1963-1991. 2006. Facsimile, A4, pp.ix+259. ISBN 1-905270-16-X.
£25.00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Facts and figures for the 21st century. An assessment of the statistics of the
Catholic community in England & Wales. 2006. A4, pp.ii+55.
ISBN-13 978-1-905270-32-3 £10.00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Digest of statistics of the Catholic community of England & Wales,
1958-2005. Vol. I: Population and vital statistics, pastoral services, evangelization and
education. 2007. A4, pp.iv+180. ISBN-13-978-1-905270-37-8 £58.00+P&P (Library
edition, buckram) 905270-38-5 (paperback) 905270-39-2 (plastic comb) 905270-40-8
(wire). All £18.00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (ed.) Services for Catholic Migrants, 1939-2008. Background data from the
archives and databank of the Newman Demographic Survey and the Pastoral Research
Centre. 2008. A4, pp.i+35. ISBN 978-1-905270-41-5 £3.40+P&P
Spencer, Anthony E.C.W. The publication of ecclesiastical statistics. 1964/2008. Facsimile, A4,
pp.iv+11. ISBN 978-1-905270-43-9. £3.20+P&P.
Spencer, Anthony, E.C.W. The organization of statistical, information and documentation
services within the Church. 1964/2008.Facsimile, A4, pp. v+12.
ISBN 978-1-905270-45-6. £3.50+P&P
Spencer, Anthony E.C.W. The age structure of the Catholic population of England & Wales,
1947-1980. Estimates made using the Archer-Dean-Cox crude cohort method. 2009.
A4, pp. i+18. ISBN 978-1-905270-49-1 £4.00+P&P.
Spencer, Anthony E.C.W. (ed.). Census of the Catholic parish of Barking St Mary & St
Ethelburga, 1965. 1965/2009 A4, pp. xii+12. ISBN 978-1-905270-48-4 . £4.20+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) Bibliography of Christian Church directories and Year Books, Great
Britain and Ireland (with Pastoral Research Centre holdings). 2009. A4. pp. 4+9.
ISBN 978-1-905270-50-7. £4.20 +P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Secrecy in the Catholic Church. The case of Catholic school statistics in
England & Wales. 2010. A4. pp. 14+xiii. ISBN 878-1-905270-52-1. £4.20 +P&P. Free
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) Reconstruction of the 2009 Census of Catholic schools in England &
Wales. Introduction to the series. 2011. A4. pp. 37. ISBN 978-1-905270-55-2. £5.80
+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) The 2009 Census of Catholic schools in England & Wales. A
Reconstruction of some of the 2009 school census statistics of the Diocese of Brentwood.
2011. A4. pp.23. ISBN 978-1-905270-57-6. £9.40 +P&P. (Price includes Introduction to
the series.).
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) The 2009 Census of Catholic schools in England & Wales. A
Reconstruction of some of the 2009 school census statistics of the Diocese of Menevia.
2011. A4. pp.23. ISBN 978-1-905270-56-9. £9.20 +P&P. (Price includes Introduction to
the series.)
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) The 2009 Census of Catholic schools in England & Wales. A
Reconstruction of some of the 2009 school census statistics of the Diocese of Wrexham.
2011. A4. pp.21. ISBN 978-1-905270-59-0. £9.50 +P&P. (Price includes Introduction to
the series.)
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Re-inventing the statistical wheel. Recommendations on the rationalisation of
The pastoral & population statistics system of the Catholic Church in England & Wales.
2003/2013. A4. pp.15. ISBN 978-1-905270-70-5. £4.80+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Gains & losses over 45 years. A review of the natural increase of the
Catholic population of England & Wales, and implicit gains & losses, as reported by the
parish clergy to their bishops, 1958-2002. 2003/2013. A4. pp.16.
ISBN 978-1-905270-68-2. £5.00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Broken faith: the demography of a Church tearing itself apart.
2004/2013. A4.pp.4 ISBN 978-1-905 270-69-9. £1.70+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Catholic directories worldwide and the Catholic Directory of England &
Wales, 2013. 2013. A4. pp.iii+12. ISBN 978-1-905270-67-4. £5.00+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Demographic and sociographic statistics of the English Province of the
Society of the Holy Child Jesus, 1961-1968. 1968/2013. A4. pp.18
ISBN 978-1-905270-67-5.£3.30+P&P.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Pastoral policy and planning for the twenty-first century. A report for the
Diocese of Clifton. 2007/2015. A4. pp.ii+27. ISBN 978-1-905270-72-9. Free
RELATED BOOKS, REPORTS & PAPERS
Spencer, Anthony E.C.W. Crisis, Co-habitation, Contraception & Divorce. Five sets of
Proposals for the two synods. 2014. A5. pp.149. ISBN 978-1-905270-73-6 £6.00 +P&P
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (ed. Mary E. Daly). Arrangements for the Integration of Irish Immigrants in
England and Wales. 1960/2012. Hardback, 25x16cm. Pp. xviii+137.
ISBN 978-1-906865-11-5. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission. €35. Amazon
Spencer, A.E.C.W. The Future of Catholic Education in England & Wales. 1971. Catholic
Renewal Movement. Paperback. 16.4x12 cm. Pp. 52.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. Ballymurphy. A Tale of Two Surveys. 1973. A4. Pp.150. Queen’s University
of Belfast. Dept of Social Studies. Paperback.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. and P.A. Dwyer (Eds.) Sociological Association of Ireland. Cumann
Socheolaiochta na hEireann. Proceedings of Second Annual Conference, Dublin, April,
1975. 1976. A4. Pp.137. Queen’s University of Belfast. Dept. of Social Studies.
ISBN 0-8539-098-6 (Paperback).
Spencer, A.E.C.W., R.J. Cormack, L. O’Dowd and H. Tovey (Eds.) Sociological Association of
Ireland. Cumann Socheolaiochta na hEireann. Proceedings of the Third Annual
Conference, Dublin, 1976. 1977. A4. Pp. 50. Queen’s University of Belfast. Dept of
Social Studies. ISBN 0-85389-123-0 Paperback.
Spencer, A.E.C.W. (Ed.) Dependency: Social, Political, Cultural. Sociological Association of
Ireland. Cumann Socheolaiochta na hEireann. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual
Conference, Cork, April, 1978, and Transactions, 1977-8. 1979. A4. Pp. 131.
Queen’s University of Belfast. Dept of Social Studies. ISSN 0143-9049,
ISBN 0-85389-149-4 Paperback.
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