Who was William Carey?
Today, William Carey is widely revered in India for his foundational role in the Bengali Renaissance and modern educational reforms, but there is more to… Read More »Who was William Carey?
Northamptonshire D-Day Stories from the Summer of 1944
Step back into one of the most defining moments of history and discover the powerful local stories behind D-Day. This brand-new book brings Northamptonshire’s wartime… Read More »Northamptonshire D-Day Stories from the Summer of 1944
Recycling Churches and Tin Tabernacles
Prefabricated galvanised steel buildings were a popular solution for rapidly expanding churches in the late 19th and early 20th-century. The St Michael’s Road area of… Read More »Recycling Churches and Tin Tabernacles
The Kislingbury Independent Mission
Exploring the story of the Kislingbury’s Idependent Mission church from 1931 to 2005, and how it started from a schism at the Baptist chapel.
Richard Davis and Revival in Northamptonshire – a review
Stephen Pickles’s Richard Davis and Revival in Northamptonshire offers a valuable exploration of nonconformist life beyond London in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.… Read More »Richard Davis and Revival in Northamptonshire – a review
Church or Chapel?
“Are you church or chapel?” It sounds like a small question today. But well into the twentieth century in England, it revealed a great deal… Read More »Church or Chapel?
Why You Don’t Really Have a Billion Ancestors
Or pedigree collapse and the hidden web of shared ancestry. Not billions of strangers. But millions of shared forebears—ordinary people whose lives intertwined in ways… Read More »Why You Don’t Really Have a Billion Ancestors
Why Doubt Your Version of History?
Fragments of the past: every record tells a story, but none tells the whole story Family historians (genealogists) are sometimes regarded with suspicion by “proper”… Read More »Why Doubt Your Version of History?
William Packwood, tailor and Baptist preacher
William Packwood was a tailor and Baptist preacher in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire.
The mission that began in a Circus: Ned Weeks and Abington Square
For more than twenty years, Ned Weeks preached to packed halls of working men and women, shaping a chapter of Northampton’s religious life that would… Read More »The mission that began in a Circus: Ned Weeks and Abington Square