A mixed marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant was pronounced in the catechism to be 'unlawful and pernicious'. Nevertheless people have always fallen in love across the religious divide.
In Liverpool in the early part of the twentieth century hundreds of women found themselves ostracised by their communities and a number of couples were denied a conventional wedding service. Caroline Adams speaks to some of those brides who married out and who relived their stories for the Women's History Group at Liverpool Community College.
