Baptist Historical Society

We are setting ourselves some challenges this year, thanks to Church Action on Poverty.

Spring is coming...
Flowers in our church grounds.

Worship with Grove Lane Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here are the links for this morning's service recording. Thank you to everybody who worked to make this morning's service happen.

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Today's service

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It will soon be our (free) Annual Lecture.
The eloquence of silence: what we have omitted to say about Baptist missions in an age of empire by Professor Brian Stanley
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London, WC2H 8EP
Wednesday May 20th 2026
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Here are the recordings of today's service

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Today, we have had a rich day of papers and learnign, laughing and eating cake. More details to follow - but this was the highlight. Today, we celebrated one of our heroes...
We presented Dr Karen Smith with a festschrift; a collection of essays written in her honour. Ordering details will follow

Next week, the BHS conference is taking place. We look forward to a rich feast of papers, friendship and discovery. Look out for the papers being published in forthcoming editions of the BQ.

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News from the Angus Library....

We are delighted to announce that the Baptist Times and the Baptist Union Handbooks have now been digitised and are available online at Find My Past www.findmypast.co.uk and the British Newspapers Archive www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Happy searching!

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Have you seen this....if you've been using it, let us know what you think....
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New films share the story of our radical roots Andy Goodliff introduces Radical Roots - a series of films from the Baptist Historical Society telling the stories of five people to help better understand where Baptists came from

This looks interesting...

The Baptist Historical Society together with the Centre for Baptist Studies will have a conference in Alcester, Warwickshire, on 14-16 July 2025 on the theme: ‘Baptist Spirituality’. You can attend for all or part of the conference. Check here for more details

The new Baptist Quarterly will be out soon.
Here is a taster article
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