Date / time: 17 October, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Friends of Dr Williams’s Library Annual Lecture
‘Archives of Dissent: Family, Memory and the English Nonconformist Tradition’
Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
Family archives reveal the relationship between dissenting minorities and record-keeping in the period from the Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century, offering insight into poignant and touching traces of individual lives and raising questions about why private documentation became part of the public history of English Dissent.
Admission is free, but booking require: honsecfdwl@dwl.ac.uk or conference@dwl.ac.uk
Location: St Pancras Church, Euston Road, London NW1 2BA