Register and Abstainer's Almanac for 1851

Register and Abstainer's Almanac for 1851 PDF Author: Scottish Temperance League
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Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Register and Abstainer's Almanac for 1851

Register and Abstainer's Almanac for 1851 PDF Author: Scottish Temperance League
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Languages : en
Pages : 96

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The British Friend

The British Friend PDF Author:
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline

Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline PDF Author: Peter Chalmers
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Category : Dunfermline (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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The Poetry and the Politics

The Poetry and the Politics PDF Author: Gregory James
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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The nineteenth century was a time of 'movements' - political, social, moral reform causes - which drew on the energies of men and women across Britain. This book studies radical reform at the margins of early Victorian society, focusing on decades of particular social, political and technological ferment: when foreign and British promoters of extravagant technologically assisted utopias could attract many hundreds of supporters of limited means, persuaded to escape grim conditions by emigration to South America; when pioneers of vegetarianism joined the ranks of the temperance movement; and when working-class Chartists, reviving a struggle for political reform, seemed to threaten the State for a brief moment in April 1848. Through the forgotten figure of James Elmslie Duncan, 'shabby genteel' poet and self-proclaimed 'Apostle of the Messiahdom', The Poetry and the Politics considers themes including poetry's place in radical culture, the response of pantomime to the Chartist challenge to law and order, and associations between madness and revolution.Duncan became a promoter of the technological fantasies of John Adolphus Etzler, a poet of science who prophesied a future free from drudgery, through machinery powered by natural forces. Etzler dreamed of crystal palaces: Duncan's public freedom was to end dramatically in 1851 just as a real crystal palace opened to an astonished world. In addition to Duncan, James Gregory also introduces a cast of other poets, earnest reformers and agitators, such as William Thom the weaver poet of Inverury, whose metropolitan feting would end in tragedy; John Goodwyn Barmby, bearded Pontiffarch of the Communist Church; a lunatic 'Invisible Poet' of Cremorne pleasure gardens; the hatter from Reading who challenged the 'feudal' restrictions of the Game Laws by tract, trespass and stuffed jay birds; and foreign exotics such as the German-born Conrad Stollmeyer, escaping the sinking of an experimental Naval Automaton in Margate to build a fortune as theAsphalt King of Trinidad.Combining these figures with the biography of a man whose literary career was eccentric and whose public antics were capitalised upon by critics of Chartist agitation, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in radical reform and popular political movements in Victorian Britain.

The Temperance Cyclopædia

The Temperance Cyclopædia PDF Author:
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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The Temperance Cyclopaedia. Fifth thousand

The Temperance Cyclopaedia. Fifth thousand PDF Author: William REID (Minister of Lothian Road Church, Edinburgh.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 710

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The Scottish Temperance Review,

The Scottish Temperance Review, PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 594

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The Examiner

The Examiner PDF Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 846

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The Waterloo Directory of Scottish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900

The Waterloo Directory of Scottish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 PDF Author: John S. North
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1118

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The Search for a Common Identity

The Search for a Common Identity PDF Author: Brian R. Talbot
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597527629
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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'The Search for a Common Identity' explores the process by which Scottish Baptists came to recognize the need for a union of Baptist churches in Scotland prior to 1869. This book identifies the major leaders in each of the three main Baptist streams in the early nineteenth century and shows how they came to the conviction that it was important for them to establish a common identity. At the heart of their unity was an enthusiasm for evangelism. The Baptist Home Missionary Society was formed in 1827. Its early successes demonstrated the wisdom of cooperation between the different Baptist agencies in Scotland. There had been three attempts to form a union of churches that failed because differences of perspective could not be reconciled. The principal achievement of the 1869 Baptist Union was in enabling Baptists with different theological opinions to come together to promote common practical objectives. In short, a shared sense of purpose led to the growth and establishment of the Baptist Union of Scotland.