'Honest Labour: Exploring the Interface between Work and Nonconformity', an IJBS Regional Day Conference at Loughborough University, 5 April 2019

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 23; pp. 83 - 85
• Main Author: Gill, Catie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Clergy; Historical text analysis; Quakers; Spirituality; United Kingdom > UK; England
• ISSN: 0954-0970

The first of the two plenaries was given by Dr John Rees (Goldsmiths, University of London) on Leveller writings in the civil war period, and it focussed especially on the proposals about the franchise drafted for the Agreement of the People as a result of the Putney Debates. In the first panel, Dr Edward Legon (Queen Mary University of London) established the image of the 'protean mechanic', working in trade and worshipping in Nonconformist communities, as it relates to clothiers. The afternoon panel's first speaker, Ms Alison McNaught (Queen Mary University of London), introduced and analysed the activities of two women printers, Tace Sowle and Mary Fenner/Waugh, in a paper entitled 'Labour and Faith: The Work of Women Printers and Booksellers of Nonconformist Texts during the Long Eighteenth Century'.