Events
2022 AGM and Annual Lecture
We shall meet this year in person on July 6th at Lambeth Palace Library. The
lecture will be at 5 p.m. and the AGM at 4.15 p.m., both in the
Bancroft room.
Please contact the Honorary Secretary, Dr Mary
Clare Martin, if you wish to attend, as numbers are limited.
W.M. Jacob will speak on the topic of ‘Lived religion’ in
eighteenth-century England: the education of poor children.
Drawing on the insights of ‘lived religion’ this paper
investigates evidence from a wide range of eighteenth century archival
sources, including diocesan parochial and borough records, to
illustrate the religious commitment of Anglican lay people of the
‘middling sort’ in a wide geographical range of parishes. It suggests
that their devotion of money and time to provide, by a variety of
means, access to spiritual development, literacy and numeracy for poor
children is evidence of their living out Christian faith. Schooling was
usually reinforced by providing and overseeing occupational training
through apprenticeships, and providing godly literature and devotional
works for apprentices and their masters and mistresses to lift children
out of poverty and improve their prospects in life.
The 2021 Annual Lecture was held online on Tuesday July 6th at
5.00pm BST.
Dr Grant Tapsell (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) gave the lecture,
entitled "Archbishop William Sancroft's Life in Letters."
A video of this lecture is presented below: