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
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.
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
“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?
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
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 was a tailor and Baptist preacher in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire.
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
On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, the quiet road between Northampton and Kingsthorpe became the scene of a shocking act of violence that… Read More »Ambush at Wallbank
Three generations of the Craddock family of Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire. (c1680-1770)