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Dr Williams's Trust and Library: A History (Hardcover)
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Dr Williams's Trust and Library: A History (Hardcover)
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This first complete history of Dr Williams's Trust and Library,
deriving from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel
Williams (c.1643-1716) reveals rare examples of private
philanthropy and dissenting enterprise. The library contains the
fullest collection of material relating to English Protestant
Dissent. Opening in the City of London in 1730, it moved to
Bloomsbury in the 1860s. Williams and his first trustees had a
vision for Protestant Dissent which included maintaining
connections with Protestants overseas. The charities espoused by
the trust extended that vision by funding an Irish preacher,
founding schools in Wales, sending missionaries to native
Americans, and giving support to Harvard College. By the
mid-eighteenth century, the trustees had embraced unitarian beliefs
and had established several charities and enlarged the unique
collection of books, manuscripts and portraits known as Dr
Williams's Library. The manuscript and rare book collection offers
material from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, with
strengths in the early modern period, including the papers of
Richard Baxter, Roger Morrice, and Owen Stockton. The
eighteenth-century archive includes the correspondence of the
scientist and theologian Joseph Priestley. The library also holds
several collections of importance for women's history and English
literature. The story of the trust and library reveals a rare
example of private philanthropy over more than three centuries, and
a case study in dissenting enterprise. Alan Argent illuminates key
themes in the history of nonconformity; the changing status of
non-established religions; the voluntary principle; philanthropy;
and a lively concern for society as a whole.
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