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Archive File

West Midlands Responses: Book VIII, Part 5

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VIII, Part 5: Church, Churchyard. Includes questions VIII.5.1 They go to church - VIII.5.7 Co...

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A book of prayers, directions for a good life, psalms (with music) and hymns

c.1700

Contains (1) prayers based partly on the Book of common prayer for use in an unspecified 'society'; (2) psalms in various metrical versions for use in the churches of Old Romney and Brookland, Kent; (...

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Religio medici

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Greenhill, William Alexander (1814-1894)

1883

"Facsimile of the first edition published in 1642."

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Society for the Study of Theology Archive

Society for the Study of Theology

1952-2017

Includes conference and plenary papers, a minute book, correspondence, administrative papers and documents relating to the Colin Gunton Centenary Prize.

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Extracts from the black book of Warwick. To which are added Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick, and Sir Thomas More's narrative of a religious frenzy at Coventry

More, Thomas Sir, Saint (1478-1535); Pegge, Samuel (1704-1796); Brown, Isabelle Kittson (1860-1928); Nichols, John (1745-1826); Carter, John (1748-1817)

MDCCLXXXIII [1783]

Final leaf is a singleton. "Price one shilling and six pence."--T.p. Half-title: Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. no. XVII. Containing I. Extracts from....II. Memoir on the story....III. Sir T...

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The spirit and the truth of religion, deduced from reason and scripture : a sermon preached on the anniversary of the opening of the Catholic Chapel, at Sheffield, on Thursday, April 30, 1813

Weedall, Henry (1788-1859)

1813

Verso of title-page: "If any profits arise from the sale of this publication, they will be applied to the benefit of the Catholic Sunday School, in Sheffield".

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Apr 1996, Amsterdam

Nov 1995 - Apr 1996

correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "Postmodern religion?" as part of the "bezinningscentrum Lectures" in April 1996. Janina Bauman also talked at this event about ...

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Spiritual diary of John Cowell, apparently inspired by the death of his wife

Cowell, John

1826-1853

Also contains notes of sermons preached by the Rev. Joseph Irons, minister of Grove Chapel, Camberwell, London, and other annotations, 1826-1839.

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Notes

c. 1820-1860

Drafts of the letter and songs that would become Mary Sabilla Novello's 'Letter...to the working classes of Great Britain' in 1854. Notes on religion, a transcription of the chapter outline of her fat...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Pegg, Bob

17 July 1977

Methodist Sunday School Anniversary service, recorded in Marsh, near Haworth and Oxenhope (West Yorkshire). The Preacher continues his talk on weariness and recognition; makes reference to the Methodi...

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