Join us on 30 April as we delve into the key issues around Changing the disability narrative: From unseen to understood with speaker Beth Kume-Holland for Oxford University’s annual Disability Lecture. Get your free tickets bit.ly/48T6N52

Delighted that swalesbaptistcollege & Regent's Park College have been awarded funding from Equipping Christian Leadership for their Science for Seminaries initiatives.

The first two Baptist colleges in the UK to be part of the programme!

We regret to say tonight's FOTA talk 'Baptist Women & the Doctrine of Universal Salvation in 17th c England' is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Join us for our next talk 30th May with Dr Aalders, 'Life Writing as Spiritual Legacy: Lessons from the Steele Collection'

The recording of last week's FOTA Seminar - ‘The Photographic Archive of the Upoto mission' is now available here. Have you registered for this week's? - youtu.be/iHkAn0dpIw8?si… via YouTube

Please join us for the second of our online Friends of the Angus seminars on the 18th of April, at 7.30, when Dr Sarah Apetrei will be talking about Baptist women & the Doctrine of Universal Salvation in 17th c England.

You are cordially invited to join us online on the 11th of April for the next Friends of the Angus seminar when Dr Amy King will be discussing the incredible photographic archive of the Upoto Mission, Congo Free State.

Our Spring series of Friends of the Angus online talks is coming up! Please join us for some fascinating evenings, beginning with Dr Amy King on the 11th of April, discussing the significance of using photographic archives in researching mission history.

#InternationalWomensDay
Here is the opening of a prophecy by Rebecca Travers 1609-1688 Quaker preacher, author and prophet who lived through the civil war:
Things to come are here declared,
but blind men cannot see:
But as the world draws to an end,
some shall remember me.

On World Book Day a page from our 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. This marvellous book tells the history of the world from time's beginning to the late 1400s, one of the earliest to integrate pictures with text, with over 1000 illustrations including terrifying & wonderful creatures!

Bishop Alan was never afraid to stand up for those on the margins, those that felt they were being ignored by the church. He was a man of prophetic spirit, reaching out where he saw injustice and speaking up when he witnessed the abuse of power.

I was deeply saddened to hear of

Just to let all of our wonderful visitors and researchers know, the Angus Library and Archive will be closed to all visitors and enquirers from the 6th of March to the 9th of April while we get on with some essential housekeeping tasks, including a bit of dusting.

I am enjoying my time at Spurgeon Library with my dear friend Dr. Geoff Chang. Dr. Chang is doing a fantastic job as curator of this fantastic library, the center of the Spurgeon universe for research.

A really good conversation and engagement in the first of Centre for Baptist Studies, Oxford 'Revisiting Whitley Lectures' series. We found Nigel Wright's Power and Discipleship to still be a helpful offering into thinking through issues of church and state. Recording will be available soon.

Angus Advent 4 is Joy, 17th century style, from
The Righteous Man's Rejoycing (1649)
' Joy is desirable of all sorts riche & poore...the Plow-man cheeres up himselfe by whistling, the Trades-man by singing (&) the weary Traveller sends for Musicians to make merry at his Inne'.

On Earth-PEACE!
Advent post 3, an 1814 address by Baptist minister John Evans celebrating peace between France & Britain.
' PEACE is at all times a most desirable thing...
EVERY Human being ought to be thankful for himself & his fellow creatures that there be PEACE IN HIS DAYS'

Angus Advent 2, HOPE 17th c style
' when a thing hath a difficulty that many things may hinder the accomplishment of it then we say, we hope, as when you send your Ships to Sea, you hope for a good return, there may be many difficulties in the way but you hope for a good Voyage'

Our recent seminar on Deaconesses, in association with @Project-Violet is now available together with another video addressing how to respond to Project Violet on the BU website here: baptist.org.uk/Groups/363286/…

Each Advent week we'll share a book with you. This week, on love, John Rogers' 1632 Treatise written to guide his Dedham church.
'Love is bountifull & helpfull not keeping what it hath to it selfe , ready to distribute & communicate to the good of others, spirituall or temporal'

This excellent lunchtime seminar on 'Disability, Friendship and Baptists' is now available on YouTube. Disability Friendship and Baptists youtu.be/U_XF4NlzXOQ?si… via YouTube

FOTA Seminar - Deaconesses: a history hidden in plain sight - Rev Ruth G... youtu.be/kUIycFlclZo?fe… via YouTube