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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"SPCK"”.
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Religion, the SPCK and the Westminster workhouses : 're-enchanting' the eighteenth-century workhouse
… century. Tim Hitchcock argued in 1992 that the SPCK, an Anglican reforming society, was largely responsible for the parochial workhouse movement in the early eighteenth century, viewing these institutions as a tool through which to reform society by instilling piety into the poor. Consequently, …
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The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, c. 1800-1837
This thesis examines the various ways in which the Church of England engaged with English politics and society from c. 1800 to 1837. Assessments of the early nineteenth-century Church of England remain coloured by a critique originating in radical anti-clerical polemics of the period and reinforced …
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The Clergy and Print in Eighteenth-Century England, c. 1714-1750
In much of the historiography surrounding print culture and the book trade, the worldliness of print remains a point of common emphasis. Indeed, many influential studies either assume or actively present the history of print as part of a broader ‘secularization thesis’. Recently, however, …