{"id":6692,"date":"2021-11-24T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=192846"},"modified":"2021-11-24T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:15:08","slug":"what-can-churches-tell-us","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/what-can-churches-tell-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What can churches tell us?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 24 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Peter Stanford speaks to Emily Briffett about his new book, <em>If These Stones Could Talk<\/em>, which chronicles his journeys around Britain and Ireland\u2019s churches, abbeys, chapels and cathedrals in a quest to understand how religion has defined our past and continues to shape our present.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-192846-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/Churches_learn-e82c946.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/Churches_learn-e82c946.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/Churches_learn-e82c946.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Peter Stanford is the author of <em>If These Stones Could Talk: The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland through Twenty Buildings <\/em>(Hodder &amp; 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