Protestant Dissent and Philanthropy in Britain, 1660-1914

Philanthropy was an essential feature of the relationship between Dissent and the society from which it sometimes felt itself to be separate.

List of contents

Introduction - Clyde Binfield and G.M. Ditchfield and David L. Wykes
Dissent and Charity, 1660-1720 - David L. Wykes
Dissenters and Charity Sermons, c.1700-1750 - Jennifer Farooq
John Howard, Dissent and the Early Years of Philanthropy in Britain - Hugh Cunningham
Rational Philanthropy: theory and practice in the emergence of British Unitarianism, c.1750-c.1820 - G.M. Ditchfield
David Nasmith (1799-1839), philanthropy expressed as campaigning - Stephen Orchard
Building Philanthropy: the example of Joshua Wilson (1795-1874) - Clyde Binfield
Funding Faith: Early Victorian Wesleyan Philanthropy - David Jeremy
Unitarians and philanthropy after 1844: the formation of a denominational identity - Alan Ruston - David L. Wykes
Children and Orphans: Some Nonconformist Responses to the Vulnerable in Victorian Britain - John Briggs
The Rowntree family and the evolution of Quaker philanthropy, c.1880-c.1920 - Mark Freeman
'Not slothful in business': Enriqueta Rylands and the John Rylands Library - Elizabeth Gow

About the author

Clyde Binfield, G.M. Ditchfield, David L. Wykes

Product details

• Assisted by: Clyde Binfield (Editor), G M Ditchfield (Editor), G. M. Ditchfield (Editor), David L Wykes (Editor), David L. Wykes (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2019
• EAN: 9781783274512
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-451-2
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Studies in Modern British Reli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management