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Researching Place-Based Religious Histories Beyond the Parish Church (1)

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Dates
Time
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location

Online- via Zoom

Institute

Institute of Historical Research

Event type

Research Training

Event series

People, Place and Community

Speakers

Dr Williams’s Library

Contact

Email only

Writing the history of Britain’s places and communities is not possible without reference to religion, faith and spirituality. However, local and place-based histories have traditionally focused on telling the stories of parish churches, their buildings, monuments, and communities. In this training session run by the Victoria County History, experts in British nonconformity, Judaism and Global Majority Evangelical church communities will introduce these groups, key moments in their histories and how to study their local buildings and communities across the UK.  

During these training sessions, researchers will explore contextual information on the religious communities we cover while having the opportunity to undertake detailed research on a community and geographical location related to this topic

  • Established under the will of Dr Daniel Williams (d.1716) the Dr Williams’s Library grew to be the foremost holding of material relating to the traditions of British Protestant Dissent.  Soon to be rehoused at the University of Manchester’s John Ryland’s Library, the collections of the Dr Williams’s Library will continue to grow and nurture an awareness of the significance of the dissenting traditions across Britain.
  • Tony Kushner is James Parkes Professor for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations in the Department of History, University of Southampton. His latest book is The Jewish Pedlar. An Untold Criminal History (Manchester University Press, 2025)
  • Karen Robson is the Head of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Southampton.
  • John Maiden is Senior Lecturer and Head of Religious Studies at the Open University. He is a historian of evangelical and pentecostal Christianity and his published work includes research on Black Majority Churches (BMCs) in the United Kingdom. He is author of Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World and Global Christianity, 1945-1980 (Oxford).

This event is part of the IHR’s People, Place and Community seminar series and is hosted by the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community.


Everyone participating in and attending the seminar is kindly asked to make themselves familiar with the IHR’s code of conduct available here.

All welcome- this seminar is free to attend, but advance registration is required.

This page was last updated on 17 January 2025