Who was William Carey?
Today, William Carey is widely revered in India for his foundational role in the Bengali Renaissance and modern educational reforms, but there is more to… Read More »Who was William Carey?
Graham Ward
Richard Davis and Revival in Northamptonshire – a review
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
Church or Chapel?
“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?
Why You Don’t Really Have a Billion Ancestors
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
Why Doubt Your Version of History?
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, tailor and Baptist preacher
William Packwood was a tailor and Baptist preacher in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire.
The mission that began in a Circus: Ned Weeks and Abington Square
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
Ambush at Wallbank
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
William Craddock and his family
Three generations of the Craddock family of Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire. (c1680-1770)
Parks, Libraries and Leisure: Northampton’s Social Life in the 1920s
In the 1920s, increased opportunities for leisure were an important part of life for the working classes.