Voices from the Margins

A day conference hosted by the British Nonconformity in the long 18th century working group.
About this Event

Join Us for Voices from the Margins!

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.

Agenda

🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Registration and Welcome
🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Evangelical missions, hymns, and slavery
Host: Daniel Johnson
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
John Gill’s Stoical Calvinism
Host: William Christofides
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Tea Break
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Radicalism and abolition in Maze Pond Baptist Church, Southwark, 1787–92
Host: Matthew Roe
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Mary Bosanquet Flecher’s articulation of Methodist feminine authority
Host: Ruby Dunn
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch on your own
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Document viewing session at the John Rylands Library
Host: Paul Carlyle
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Baptist women’s congregational experience in the long eighteenth century
Host: Baiyu Andrew Song
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Childhood, moral education, and marginal voices in Hannah More’s Bristol
Host: Ben Screech
🕑: 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM
Tea Break
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM
Playing Hannah Moore’s cards
Host: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull
🕑: 04:45 PM - 05:15 PM
Joseph ‘Gomer’ Harris and Baptist nonconformity
Host: Darrin Gilchrist
🕑: 05:15 PM - 05:30 PM
Panel discussion & concluding remarks