Baptist Handbooks 1832-1955 have arrived on #FindMyPast
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/britain-baptist-handbooks-1832-1955 #£ #Baptist #nonconformist genchat @genealogy @geneadons #genealogy
𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 (𝟭𝟲𝟭𝟮-𝟭𝟲𝟳𝟮)
Remembering Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet for International Women's
Day.
Many Americans will know that Anne was America's first poet to get into print, and in a big way too. What is not so widely known is Anne was probably born in #Northampton, England in 1612, the daughter of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke (married at Hardingstone, #northamptonshire in 1603). The Dudleys were a #Puritan #nonconformist family. #InternationalWomensDay
I’m related to Elizabeth Taylor, not the actress, but a non-conformist born on 10 March 1735 in Westminster, London. Elizabeth and her husband John Teek were founder members of the Countess of Huntington’s Connexion, a society founded in 1783 by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntington (pictured). Non-conformism is a strong trait in my family.
"Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers."
~ from The Neurotic’s Notebook: How to be anxious, hostile, and defensive while loving every miserable minute of it
by Mignon McLaughlin, 1963
This quip is charming. But besides the blanket statement "every society," there are plenty of past troublemakers who are forgotten; sometimes for good reasons. Anyway, the book title is a clue to what she really believed.
Well, the ancestry-researching family members now tell me we’re descended from the last ever #Lollard burned at the stake and at least one other, slightly earlier. Troublemakers, always.
But it’s a little weird to find myself wondering whether they would be proud of me as a fellow #nonconformist , or would have hated me as a heretic and various words they didn’t have back then, like some other religous people have. Or maybe, just maybe, some things weren’t distinctly reified then... 
First time #mastodon poster.
Part time #ESK8 #gamer #socialdork
Full time #nonconformist #ShenniganSpecialist #BuffooneryVirtuoso #dogdad #AkitaSupervisor #DadJokeDispenser
#Ancestry has released 58,000 #nonconformist records for #Hampshire, #England #genealogy @geneadons @genealogy #genchat
A niche collection of Roman Catholic records has arrived on #FindMyPast https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/northampton-roman-catholic-records#Northamptonshire #Catholic #genealogy #nonconformist @genealogy @geneadons
Old elections in #Northampton
Between 1920-21, James Ward (1847-1925), a Northampton #nonconformist, social campaigner and #journalist wrote a series of six articles for the Northampton Daily Echo describing life growing up in the town in the 1850s and 60s. #elections #Liberal #Radical
https://edintone.com/old-elections-in-northampton/
9 Nov 1676: Richard Baxter #nonconformist stops preaching at Swallow Sreet #London due to posting of constables at the door #otd (NPG)
Annual Congregational Lecture ‘John Bunyan, Congregational Person’ by Dr Michael Davies, University of Liverpool at
Bunyan Meeting, Mill Street, Bedford, MK40 3EU on Thursday 23rd November 2023 from 3 pm, lecture at 5:30 pm. Also online https://bunyanmeeting.co.uk/live and the recording at The Congregational Library https://conglib.ac.uk #JohnBunyan #Congregational #Nonconformist #Bedford
A profile of Arthur Adock. Another, perhaps forgotten 'giant' of Northampton's past. #Journalist, #Historian, #Liberal and #Nonconformist #Northampton https://edintone.com/arthur-adcock/
I appear to be in a minority of folks I run into (work, radio, online, etc.) who has more doubts than enthusiasm about AI. But, then, I almost always am. ("Pandemic? There's not going to be a pandemic, you're paranoid... Red Flag warning and wildfires? Why do you worry about that stuff?... Climate change? Why are you worried about that?) #nonconformist
