News about Charles Booth

The Camden People's Theatre, which took £250,000 of taxpayer funding from Arts Council England during Covid, is offering between £45,000 and £50,000 for the role of artistic director and joint CEO. The job advert said it welcomes applications from people without a formal education who 'identify' as 'working-class, benefit class, criminal class and/or underclass'. It also appealed to members of the 'global majority' - a disputed term for people of indigenous, African, Asian, or Latin American descent - as well as those of ' Black Caribbean, Black African, South Asian, East Asian, South East Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Latinx, Jewish, Romany and Irish Traveller heritage'.

The Bishop of Hereford's 'Merry Christmas' first used the word in the 16th century, according to historians. Experts have found that Bishop Charles Booth (right) of Hereford Cathedral (left) wrote a letter (right) to his colleague Canon William Burghill in 1520, expressing hope that he would be merry this Christmas. The now-famous word appeared 14 years before it was assumed that the terms were first used in the United Kingdom.