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Publication of our transcription of A.B.’s ‘A View of the Dissenting Intrest in London’

Introducing A.B’s ‘A view of Dissenting Intrest in London Of the Presbyterian & Independent Denominations from the year 1695 to the 25 of December 1731. With a Postscript of the present state of the Baptists.’ (1731) In this post we introduce the key source that lies at the heart of...

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Discovering a research project as an intern: a peek behind the curtain

Internships often provide students with valuable experience and insight into the professional world. Having been part of the Mapping Multifaith London research project for a few months, I was given the opportunity to discover the mechanisms behind a research project. As a second-year master’s student in anglophone studies at Aix-Marseille...

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The Scottish presbyterians at Founders’ Hall: a sense of belonging?

In 1739, William Maitland, in his opulent History of London, gave a list of ‘Meeting-houses of the several denominations’ that were licensed the year before, in 1738. He meant presbyterian, congregational, baptist and quaker meeting places. Five livery companies are listed as renting their halls to the first three groups:...

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Isaac Watts and the Singing Revolution

“When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”, one of the best-known hymns in the English-speaking world, was just one of the 216 works included in Hymns and Spiritual Songs published in 1707 by Congregational minister, Isaac Watts. Of course, singing hymns and spiritual songs in any church is such a common...

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The particular case of the Quakers: the question of choosing which main Quaker people to associate with each London early Quaker meeting-house

As part of the initial phase of our Mapping Multi-faith London research project, each team needs to enter the relevant data for each early London place of non-conformist worship into our database. My job is to enter the data for the early Quaker London meeting houses. For the pilot phase...

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Winning the Migrant Vote: A Huguenot Minister’s Polemics and the 1710 General Election

Peter Tillemans, The House of Commons in Session (c. 1709). Amidst a whirlwind of electioneering and heightened anticipation, England watches the election of a new parliament. Beset by scandal, allegations of cronyism, and a raft of unpopular policy decisions, one party in particular nervously eyes the upcoming vote. This scenario,...

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Finding Minorities in Livery Company Archives

For members of minority groups in eighteenth-century London, the urban landscape had to be made into a devotional environment by human acts of prayer and gathering to hear preaching, often in locations that were not purpose-built meeting houses. This was made possible through business negotiations such as drawing up leases...

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Mapping Multifaith London : The Making Of

Genesis of the project The idea for Mapping Multifaith London can be said to have emerged as early as 2010 when I gave a paper at Keele University for the 6th Triennial conference of the International John Bunyan Society, convened by the much-missed and lamented Roger Pooley. I was by...

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London in the ‘Age of Toleration’

Though varied and volatile, the religious culture of early Georgian London was broadly practical, moderate and tolerant. In Letters on the English (1733), Voltaire recalled how Anglicans, Protestant Dissenters, Jews and Muslims at the Royal Exchange ‘deal[t] with each other as if they were of the same religion’ and reserved...

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Working back to front? Mapping out the most pertinent sources for data collection on early Quaker Meeting-Houses in London

Initial data research choices I form part of the sub-team within the Mapping Multi-faith London general research project, researching the evolution in fixed Quaker meeting-houses in the London area from the late 17th century to the mid 18th century, with 1730 as our pilot mapping date. In our cross-faith-community general...