Catherine Booth

Catherine and William Booth began the London mission in 1865 that developed into the Salvation Army. Catherine's place in that joint foundation is worth recovering when a familiar organisation is reduced to one founder's name. Its combination of religious purpose and practical service needed speakers, organisers, volunteers and local communities to carry it forward. Her life offers a route into how convictions become an organised, international body, with later generations responsible for the uses they make of that inheritance.