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Argent, Alan

 
9781783277025: Dr Williams's Trust and Library: A History
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1783277025 ISBN 13 : 9781783277025
Editeur : The Boydell Press, 2022

Synopsis

The library contains the fullest collection of material relating to English Protestant Dissent. Opening in the City of London in 1730, it moved to Bloomsbury in the 1860s. Williams and his first trustees had a vision for Protestant Dissent which included maintaining connections with Protestants overseas. The charities espoused by the trust extended that vision by funding an Irish preacher, founding schools in Wales, sending missionaries to native Americans, and giving support to Harvard College. By the mid-eighteenth century, the trustees had embraced unitarian beliefs and had established several charities and enlarged the unique collection of books, manuscripts and portraits known as Dr Williams's Library. The manuscript and rare book collection offers material from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, with strengths in the early modern period, including the papers of Richard Baxter, Roger Morrice, and Owen Stockton. The eighteenth-century archive includes the correspondence of the scientist and theologian Joseph Priestley. The library also holds several collections of importance for women's history and English literature. The story of the trust and library reveals a rare example of private philanthropy over more than three centuries, and a case study in dissenting enterprise. Alan Argent illuminates key themes in the history of nonconformity; the changing status of non-established religions; the voluntary principle; philanthropy; and a lively concern for society as a whole.

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À propos de l'auteur

ALAN ARGENT is Research Fellow at Dr Williams's Library, London and minister of Trinity Congregational Church, Brixton. He has edited The Angels' Voice for the London Record Society and is the author of The Richard Baxter Treatises (Boydell, 2018).

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Éditeur
The Boydell Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783277025
ISBN 13 
9781783277025
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
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