The Angus Library and Archive

The Angus Library and Archive is the leading collection of Baptist history and heritage worldwide. It’s own website is here. The ‘Opening the Angus Seminars’ provide an introduction to this rich resource, and some previous seminars are available to view online (see hyperlinks below).

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Latest Seminar:

23rd October 2024 – Dr Saptarshi Mallick:

‘William Carey and Sati: A Baptist Missionary’s Interrogation of a Social Evil’

 Watch the video here:

Dr Saptarshi Mallick is Assistant Professor at the Department of American Studies (Research Area for American Literary and Cultural History with a Focus on (Trans-) Nationality and Space), University of Graz, Austria. From September 2019 to March 2024, he worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri, University of North Bengal.


Past Seminars:
Some of our earlier seminars are recorded – click the title below for more details.

  • 30th May 2024 - Life Writing as Spiritual Legacy: Lessons from the Steele Collection - VIDEO HERE

  • 11th April 2024 - The Photographic Archive of the Upoto Mission - VIDEO HERE

  • 16th November 2023 - Deaconesses: A History Hidden in Plain Sight - VIDEO HERE

  • 9th November 2023 - Finding Spurgeon in the Angus and Beyond - VIDEO HERE

  • 19th October 2023 - Female Missionary, a challenge for two nations - VIDEO HERE

  • 18 May 2023: Re-evaluating William Ward’s Early Radicalism - VIDEO HERE

  • 10 November 2022: Charles Spurgeon and Wintering at Menton

  • 27 October 2022: Edith Gates — neglected pioneer

  • 30 June 2022: William Carey and the Environment - VIDEO HERE

  • 31 March 2022: The Word Became Image: The use of magic lanterns in mission and evangelism by British Baptists

  • 17 Feb 2022: Amnesty International and the rise of human rights activism in post-war Britain - VIDEO HERE

  • 3 Feb 2022: Pioneering woman – Margaret Jarman from Deaconess to Hermit - VIDEO HERE

  • 18 November 2021: The Dark Heart of Empire: Missionaries and Mr Kurtz - VIDEO HERE

  • 8 October 2021: Joseph Angus as Moral Philosophy Tutor at Stepney and Regent’s Park

  • 30 September 2021: Bookseller, Author, Compiler: Three Women of the Angus Library - VIDEO HERE