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B. Andrew Song

@basjk677.bsky.social
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PhD, FRAS, RHS Associate Fellow. Read history, spirituality, art, and immigration law. Research in 18th cen transatlantic British nonconformity and world Christianity. Toronto, ON (Treaty 13)

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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So glad to announce the 14th annual meeting of ETS Ontario & Quebec. Here is the link for registration: eventbrite.com/e/a-i-and-hu... Please help us to spread the word! #AI #humanflourishing #Christian #Toronto #Ontario #Quebec #Canada #evangelical #conference
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My #1 indulgence
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
RIP Dr Robert Louis Wilken (1936–June 7, 2026). Had to read his Spirit of Early Christian Thought (YUP, 2003) three times. Dr Wilken was a great introduction to the Fathers.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Dr @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social and I are excited to announce that registration for our day conference at the John Rylands Library is open. Please plan to join us on June 22. www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-fro...
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Voices from the Margins
A day conference hosted by the British Nonconformity in the long 18th century working group.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
So glad the John Rylands Library has agreed to host our day conference this year. We have 6 exciting papers lining up and a document viewing session. Please plan to join us and help us to spread the word. @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Our CFP will end in 2 weeks! Please help us to spread the news. It will be an exciting day conference at John Rylands Library this June. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/voi... @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social
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Voices from the Margins - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
Voices from the Margins - 22 June, The John Rylands Library, Manchester Call for papers deadline - 25 May Narratives of British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century often centre on key charact...
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Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Don't forget to register by 12 April to attend Speech/less in the Early Modern World. Free event! All welcome!
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s interesting that when people commented on the U.S. President’s recent AI image, no one mentioned the practice of the “royal touch,” which was an imitation of Christ’s healing. Shortly after Charles II’s restoration, he held public services of touching the sick in London. 1/2
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Preaching & Preachers: John Ryland, Jr.'s (1753–1825) "Text Book"
Northamptonshire was a stronghold of nonconformity.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Here is my new Substack channel, where I will share thoughts, ideas, & anecdotes from archival research. Please subscribe and it's free of any charge. bandrewsong.substack.com
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B.A. Song | Substack
PhD, FRAS, Associate Fellow of RHS. Historian of Christianity studying 18th-century nonconformity, Baptist history, and Chinese Christianities. Treaty 13, Toronto. Click to read B.A. Song on Substack....
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
CFP royalhistsoc.org/calendar/voi...
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Voices from the Margins - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
Voices from the Margins - 22 June, The John Rylands Library, Manchester Call for papers deadline - 25 May Narratives of British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century often centre on key charact...
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Dr. Amy Scott @dramys.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
readfoyer.com/article/meet... She is newly identified!
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Meet Eleonora Susette
The previously unknown sitter of Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom has been identified
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Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
✨Speech/less in the Early Modern World✨ Research Workshop, 23-24 April 2026 Emmanuel College, Cambridge Places limited. Please register as an attendee by 12 April: forms.gle/k9Xnz4gVFhe2Syez9 Thank you event sponsors! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Excited to announce that Dr @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social and I will co-host our 4th annual conference this year at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. Call for papers is now alive. Please help us to spread the news. Grateful for the support of ASCH and AFCBS.
Conference Poster, “Voices for the Margins,” a day conference of the British Nonconformity in the long 18th century work group. Conference will be held at the John Rylands Library in Manchester on June 22, 2026.Call for papers. Narratives of British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century often centre on key characters, further amplifying the voices which are already the loudest. This conference seeks to give attention to those who are situated on the peripheries of these narratives.This will include family members and
colleagues of more established figures, enslaved peoples, non-Western perspectives, the heterodox and heretical, the radical, and those engulfed in scandal. This conference aims to
consider a diverse range of social, economic,
racial, and
theological perspectives, giving attention to those who were
either
marginalised
in
their own lifetimes, or have been
marginalised by subsequent historiographies.
We invite proposals for papers on any subject pertainting to this theme, which may include: The poor
• Women
• Family and friends of famous figures
• Overlooked figures
• Enslaved peoples
• Non-Western lives and perspectives
• Heterodox and heretical figures or views
• Radicals
• Scandalous figures
The conference is hosted by the British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century, co-convened by Drs Baiyu Andrew Song and Daniel Johnson, under the auspices of the American Society for Church History.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief biography by May 25, 2026 to c18.nonconformity@gmail.com.
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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Why did clergymen marry? What did a wife offer them in serving their parishes? Why on earth would Charlotte Lucas marry Mr Collins? Answers to these questions, & much more, at this talk using the @thejohnrylands.bsky.social collections with curator Paul Carlyle. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clerical-c...
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thrilled to announce that Palgrave Macmillan has offered a contract to publish my monograph, Joseph Kinghorn and English Baptist Communion Controversies. This work will also be included in the “Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World” series.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Canadian churches need to collectively pray when our Supreme Court hold hearings over QC’s unconstitutional Bill 21 (March 23-7). This is a case that matters to all Canadians (w/ misuse of the “notwithstanding” clause) & esp concerns religion in the public sphere.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Reading Fr Gerald O’Collins and George Grant side by side is an intellectual treat!
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The registration is open now at Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies website. Please help to spread the words! Excited about this research trip.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Looking forward to attend @bsecs.bsky.social this week at Pembroke College! I will present a paper on Andrew Fuller’s portraits on Thursday. Excited to meet colleagues and friends. www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference will be at Lancaster in July. Call for papers just released. I'll put putting together a proposal, so hope to see some of you there! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Details here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
A Significant Milestone

The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster University in 1976 and held a conference that year on the theme of ‘Elites in Society’.

The SHS was the brainchild of Harold Perkin (the first Professor of Social History in Britain), who quietly promoted a form of social history that looked beyond class based analyses. Alongside a regular newsletter, the society’s conference was the glue that bound together its increasingly diverse membership.

As the SHS’s conferences grew, they moved from a focus on a single theme to a programme that incorporated different strands of social history. The SHS conference is now one of the largest gatherings of social historians in Britain, and incorporates work that spans time, space and various historical approaches. There are few conferences that are as diverse or as open to new ideas.

From the outset, the SHS has sought to offer a constructive space for postgraduate historians to present and gain feedback on their work. The society still prides itself on giving postgraduates the same platform as more established colleagues.

Thankfully, however, some things have changed. The first SHS conferences were held in the depths of winter (according to late founder member Eric Evans, this was because no other conference was foolhardy enough to organise events at that time of year so they could guarantee and audience). Since 2018, the conference has adopted a summer timetable, allowing outdoor events including walking tours and an unforgettable night at the Black Country Living Museum’s 1950s fairground.

We are delighted to be returning to our roots at Lancaster to celebrate our 50th anniversary.
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Submit a proposal! cts-stc.ca/2025/11/14/2...
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2026 CTS Call for Papers – Canadian Theological Society
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Been reading a lot of & about the fathers this semester. Really regret that at seminary, I wasted too much money on contemporary books rather than buying primary sources. My advice is to buy critical editions of primary sources and only use library copies for secondary sources!
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The Nicene-Constantinopletan Creed is not just a historical creed, but a living confession—essential to Christian formation, worship, hermeneutics, theology, and spirituality. Any opposition to it is either premodern heresy or modern nonsense.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Sad to learn Prof Paul A Cohen passed away. I’m so indebted to his works though I’ve never had the privilege to meet him. May he rest in peace!
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Absolutely thrilled to find this book in my pigeonhole today, which was written by my great friend Janice Pibworth! Ada Habershon’s hymn “He will hold me fast” has been a great blessing to my life. I’m very sure that Janic/ book could be a brilliant Christmas gift idea!!
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
As people are fascinated by Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling, I think Neil Gaiman is really important, especially for those who read theology. I really hope someone to work on Gaiman’s novels from a theological perspective. In particular, to study his American Gods and Good Omens.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“Many vices may [disguise] as virtues” (St Gregory, Book of Pastoral Rule, 2.9).
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Self-promotion is really a repulsive vice in today’s academy, especially among evangelical scholars.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Enjoyed reading this fantastic book. Wish there is a sequel on East Asians in British history. Nevertheless, Fatima said it beautifully—pages 184–186—what I would offer as a proposal and call for church historians, i.e., to reimagine a metanarrative. Thank you, Fatima!
Fatima Manji, Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient.
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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) memorients.com/events/cfp-b... #CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
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CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) | MEMOs
Bringing together researchers working on books that were used in any form of prayer practice in the late medieval and early modern era (up to the 18th Century)
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Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️
Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October.  

We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. 

Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: 
Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare.
Martial identities, values and motivations.
Notions of gender, race, class and religion.
Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict.
The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war.
Popular allegiance in early modern conflict.
Maritime violence and naval warfare.
The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law.

Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 16/07/2025
📣 call for applications 📣 Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. Please share widely! www.historyworkshop....
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Glad to participate my friend @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social ‘s talk tonight at Abney Park on the radical hymns of Isaac Watts!
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It was a great afternoon discussing English Baptists in the 18th cen and the revolutions. #18thcen #nonconformity #ASCH @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
@danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social and I are so pleased that we can host our third in-person meeting of the British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century working group conference this year in Bath! #ASCH #18thcen #Revolution
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Bring the tender tale true of the Pelican; Bathe me, Jesu Lord, in what Thy bosom ran Blood whereof a single drop has power to win All the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS! Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June! Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ Click on the link for the full CFP www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
After a fantastic slate of papers at RSA Boston 2025, EMoDiR is delighted to announce our CfP for RSA San Francisco 2026. Please circulate, and submit a proposal! #earlymodern
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Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
abneypark.org/upcoming-eve... June 26th, I’m speaking at Abney Park on the radical* aspects of Isaac Watts’ work Tickets are on sale now, and if you’ve got time for a drink before or after, let me know *in the fact that he was innovative and controversial, not radical in a technical sense
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Radical Writers: The Radical Hymns of Isaac Watts with Dr Daniel Johnson — Abney Park
Isaac Watts (1674-1748) is remembered as one of Abney Park’s most famous connections, for his hymns – which are still sung to this day. In his lifetime, Watts’ hymns were highly controversial, marking...
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Registration is now open for our landmark conference ‘Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent’. We have a wonderful programme of international speakers including the editors of Barbauld’s Collected Works (OUP 2025). 📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June. More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent Conference - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Join us for a two-day conference celebrating Anna Letita Barbauld's work as the year 2025 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of her death.
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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This upcoming day conference on 'Nonconformity and Revolutions' on 21 June in Bath might be of interested to our followers. This conference is co-sponsored by American Society of Church History and Andrew Fuller Centre for Baptist Studies. www.eventbrite.ca/e/nonconform...
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Nonconformity and Revolutions
A day conference of the British Nonconformity in the long 18th century working group of the American Society of Church History.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
RIP. Prof. Alasdair Macintyre is truly an intellectual giant. Thanks for your contributions.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Join our exciting conference on nonconformity and revolutions in the long 18th c. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/non... @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
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Nonconformity and Revolutions – CONFERENCE | RHS
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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s not too late to join the Canadian Theological Society in June in Toronto for our annual meeting! cts-stc.ca/2025/cts-202...
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CTS 2025 Final Schedule
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Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
@danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social and I are excited to host this day-conference on June 21. www.eventbrite.ca/e/nonconform...
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Nonconformity and Revolutions
A day conference of the British Nonconformity in the long 18th century working group of the American Society of Church History.
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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I don’t do much Canadian Baptist history, but feel privileged to join Baptist historians and scholars tomorrow to discuss the Canadian Baptist story at the Canadian Baptist Symposium, organised by Canadian Baptist Historical Society and Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14/04/2025
How did people remember the 'murderous midsummer' of the Prayer Book Rebellion? Join us at 6.30pm on Friday 2 May for 'Remembering Rebellion in the #Tudor South West', with Professor Mark Stoyle. Booking for in-person and online attendance is now available bit.ly/3DcfWMl #Skystorians
Early modern battle scene and text: 'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West', RHS Lecture with Mark Stoyle (Southampton), 6.30pm Friday 2 May 2025 Mary Ward House, London and online
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