The Friends of Dr Williams's Library Annual Lectures

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 19; p. 123
• Main Author: Dunan-Page, Anne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2015
• Subjects: 18th century; Architects; British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Duffy, Peter; English literature; Libraries; Public speaking; Puritanism; United Kingdom > UK; England
• ISSN: 0954-0970

Dr Williams's Library was established by the will of Dr Daniel Williams, a leading London Presbyterian minister in the early eighteenth century. First opened in 1729, it houses one of the most important research collections of English Protestant Nonconformity. Other titles focussing on post-Reformation history and early-modern Dissent include: * Geoffrey Nuttall, Richard Baxter and Philip Doddridge: A Study in a Tradition, 1951 * Patrick Collinson, A Mirror of Elizabethan Puritanism: The Life and Letters of 'Godly Master Dering ', 1964 * Basil Hall, John a Lasco, 1499-1560: A Pole in Reformation England, 1971 * P. M. Holt, A Seventeenth-Century Defender of Islam: Henry Stubbe (1632-76) and his Book, 1972 * Christopher Stell, Architects of Dissent: Some Nonconformist Patrons and their Architects, 1976 * B. R. White, Hanserd Knollys and Radical Dissent in the 17th Century, 1977 * Eamon Duffy, Peter and Jack: Roman Catholics and Dissent in Eighteenth Century England, 1982. * Jerely Goring, Godly Exercises or the Devil's Dance?: Puritanism and Popular Culture in Pre-Civil War England, 1983 * Nicholas Tyacke, The Fortunes of English Puritanism, 16031640, 1990 * N. H. Keeble, Loving & Free Converse: Richard Baxter in his Letters, 1991 * David L. Wykes, 'To revive the memory of some excellent men ': Edmund Calamy and the Early Historians of Nonconformity, 1997 * W. M. Lamont, Puritanism and the Origins of the English Civil War, 2001 * Isabel Rivers, The Defence of Truth through the Knowledge of Error: Philip Doddridge 's Academy Lectures, 2003 * I. M. Green, Continuity and Change in Protestant Preaching in Early Modern England, 2009 * Mark Goldie, A Darker Shade of Pepys: The Ent'ring Book of Roger Morrice, 2009 * Alister McGrath, The King James Bible of 1611: