68Carew, Mairéad. Tara and the Ark of the Covenant: A Search for the Ark of the Covenant by British-Israelites on the Hill of Tara (1899-1902). Dublin: Discovery Programme/Royal Irish Academy, 2003, p. 12.
According to rationalwiki.org: "Edward Hine also published The British Nation Identified with Lost Israel in 1871, which went on to sell 250,000 copies. The 'Anglo-Israel Association' in Britain had only 300 members in its early years, however during the heyday of British Israelism the membership of the 'British-Israel-World Federation' (BIWF) reached 20,000 at its height in 1920." ("British Israelism." RationalWiki, rationalwiki.org/wiki/British_Israelism.)